Image: reddit.com · I Built the Telemetry Tool I Always Wanted as a Racer
A dirt track racing telemetry app with Bluetooth sensor support
An embedded engineer who races dirt track used Claude to build an Android telemetry app with multi-lap comparison, GoPro auto-start and custom BLE sensors.
Credits
- Reddit poster bacon-bytes Source ↗
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The full story
An embedded systems engineer who races dirt track was frustrated by existing racing apps, with their two-lap comparison limits, forced logins and no way to filter out caution laps. They used Claude to build an Android app from scratch that overlays 20 or more laps, filters caution laps automatically, maps GPS data, imports RaceBox CSV files, starts a GoPro over Bluetooth and reads custom BLE sensors, with all data kept on the phone.
Claude helped with the architecture, the Kotlin UI code, lap detection, the Bluetooth integration and the charts. Some Android APIs still needed manual research and complex features had to be broken into smaller prompts. The app is in beta with 13 testers, and wireless shock position sensors are being built next, also with Claude.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I Built the Telemetry Tool I Always Wanted as a RacerReddit poster: bacon-bytesPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: I Built the Telemetry Tool I Always Wanted as a Racer (opens in a new tab)
- The video: youtu.be
The maker's video.