Virtue clock, Can we stream the data?

[Ironpanther]

Has anyone looked into the Virtue clock for a wired or wireless connection that could stream the data to maybe a csv? Does it have a USB or other service port for the board that could be used to get a data stream from?

[jelvas]

there are no external ports on mine, the case says there is a spot for "future RF upgrade". Not sure if thats what your looking for or not.

According to ANS's description- The Clock will work with future wireless RF upgrades that will allow you to transmit all of the data to a remote computer, allowing you to shoot an entire hopper or more over the Clock to see what your true high-speed performance is. Now players will be able to monitor and test how well their gun performs at sustained high rates of fire.

[Dirty Engineer]

What is the story on the Virtue Clock Chrono? Did the company go out of business as it seem to getting harder to find them?

[jelvas]

I called Virtue, they said it is in use at some psp events but not available to the public. they also could not give me a date when it would be available. He also said there is an internal port but I would need to write programming to use it.

[neftaly]

Can you please take a few detailed photos of the board?

[jelvas]

Here ya go Ipod Virtue clock 025.jpgIpod Virtue clock 027.jpgIpod Virtue clock 030.jpgIpod Virtue clock 031.jpgIpod Virtue clock 033.jpg

[jelvas]

I tried to put them on the page from photobucket but kept getting an invalid error

[neftaly]

http://inceptionforums.com/attachmen...tachmentid=602
That's an empty 4-pin connector sitting above the (hollow) grip itself? You can probably connect a USB to 3.3v TTL converter like http://www.ebay.com/itm/390565563549 then just dump the output to a serial console. Do you have a multimeter? Or even a red LED or something?

[jelvas]

I can grab a multimeter tomorrow. I must say electronics are my weak point though. And yes,that is the empty connector right above the empty spot in the grip.

[neftaly]

Cool, two of those pins will be for power (negative/ground and positive), I'm guessing pins 1 and 4.
Of the other two pins, one will be a data out line and the other will either be data in or a clock calibration line.
See which pins you get +3.3v on.

If you have a LED (the multimeter will probably be too slow) you might be able to connect it to the ground and the data out line and see it flash very briefly when a shot is registered.