Hands on Hammerheads new Karoo GPS Bike Computer. Its been a few years since startup Hammerhead announced their H1 navigational bike accessory. It was sorta like a fish finder for navigation while on a bike. Rather than be a full bike computer head unit, it mostly offered you a light bar system telling you which way to turn on a route. But that all changes as of today. The company has announced their entrance into the full blown GPS bike computer market with the Hammerhead Karoo. This new head unit will offer complete turn by turn mapping navigation, Strava integration, coaching, and dual ANTBluetooth Smart sensor compatibility. All of which is based on Android with a 1. G cellular connectivity, and is IP6. Electronics Projects, 8051 Projects, Micro Controller Projects, Robot Projects, Electrical Projects, mechanical Projects. Pats Motorcycle Technical Data. Yoshimura TRSRace Titanium TriOval. NMEATime2 is PC time synchronization software that synchronizes the PC clock to the time from a GPS receiver. NMEATime2 is set up as a system service where the PC. Official Dodge Owners website. NAVTEQ maps drive the GPS DVDbased navigation systems available for Dodge vehicles. Learn more. I got a chance to poke at the unit sans riding while at Sea Otter two weeks ago giving you a bit of a glimpse of an early beta unit. The company has stressed to me though that a lot has shifted since I saw it just that short time ago. Of course, thats somewhat normal at this stage in the product development life cycle. Video Overview If youre looking for the quick and dirty overview of the Karoo, dive into my hands on video below, which covers all the basics of using the system from setting up sensors to configuring data pages and routing. Though, the video does lack a proper intro, as there was a disconnect between my brain and the recording button on my camera. No worries, I promise youll still enjoy itWith that, lets dive into the tech details within the textual landscape of this postYou. Tube be damned The Tech When you first pick up the Karoo pronounced ka as in Cut and then roo, like Kangaroo, itll sorta feel like a plump Edge 8. Kinda in the ballpark of the Polar V6. Nothing wrong with that per se, as its still shorter than an Edge 1. Marshall Mg Foot Controller Manual'>Marshall Mg Foot Controller Manual. Its current weight is 1. Its sized at 9. 8x. As for the name Karoo is named after the desert in South Africa where the founders grew up riding bikes. On the bottom, theyve gone with a quarter turn mount thats compatible with any Garmin Edge series mount out there. Thats great news for consumers as it means youve got tons of 3rd party mount options, especially now that bikes have started to integrate that into handlebar setups. However, if you dont have a quarter turn mount already, then youre in luck as theyre bundling it with a Barfly out front mount which is a nice little partnership. The unit sports a Gorilla Glass cover glass, which they claim reduces glare. And no doubt, it definitely did for me toying with it and its 3. On the left side, youve got two buttons for better glove like control, followed by two on the right side as well. Cabinet Making Software S on this page. The micro USB port sits on the bottom for charging. Youll start off at the dashboard, which allows you to enter different functions such as configuring sensors, navigating somewhere, or general riding. Note that some of the Android button layouts appear within my photos trianglecirclesquare, since this development unit hasnt had those hiddendisabled yet. As noted earlier, the unit is capable of pairing to both ANT and Bluetooth Smart sensors power, speed, cadence, shifting, muscle oxygen, trainer control, and heart rate. When it comes to setting up data pages, those can be done here as well. You can slide through and pick most of the majors Ive seen on other units, though I didnt take a complete inventory of every data field since its still early beta. You can setup multiple bikeactivity profiles which in this case was utilized for multiple demo users, allowing you to save those data field configurations in the same way you would on a Garmin Edge device. Heres how one of those more complex data pages I setup looks Of course, the real meat of the Hammerhead solution is their navigation platform. After all, its the basis behind the H1 device theyve been selling to date. The end state goal here is like most other bike computers in that you can route wherever youd like, be it from saved files i. GPXFIT or platforms StravaMap. My. RideTrail. Forksbut also just by tapping where you want to go on the screen. Its amazingly easy as seen in detail in my video above, and really just so much more efficient than manually trying to do it via long addresses on a Garmin Edge unit. Its basically just like youd do on your smartphone within any number of maps apps. You can pinch and zoom your way around the screen and then add a location to add to your route. You can super quickly create a looped route that might have taken forever on other platforms. The maps will be cached on the production unit, though for the development unit we had to rely on cellular connectivity. But even in that case, it wasnt too bad once we found signal. Again the next version of beta units will have caching enabled. The maps can also be downloaded using Wi. Fi within the unit. Youll notice within that data is the elevation profile as well, which is automatically generated on the fly pretty cool. In the below case youll see the elevation profile for the two pins I dropped on the map hence why address isnt shown. That simple. You can save these routes or pull up existing ones pretty easily from the home screen. I think the biggest takeaway I had from toying with the Karoo is just how darn quick and snappy everything is. It all just feels instant, theres virtually no lag except when my fat fingers miss a button and I have to do it again. Heck, it even feels faster than my i. Phone 6.   Though, my i. Phone 6 seems to be in need of being taken behind the shed and being put out of its misery. But you get my point. The company has a number of features planned for post release, including areas such as structured workouts and a full live coaching system to provide real time feedback during a ride. But well need till late 2. Heres a quick gallery of three pages of tech specs I was provided click to expand  Oh and one final tidbit for fun They just acquired the Garmin Connect IQ App Dynamic Watch aka dw. Map and brought on its founder Marcus Needham to the team. Thats a pretty massive win, especially days after it just won Garmins Connect IQ developer award for best wearable app. Case Logic Keyboard Driver there. Pricing Availability Next is the tricky part at present the company hasnt actually released pricing information yet. Though they have decided on an August 2. Starting with evaluating that Id say that as of two weeks ago, Id consider August optimistic. Not unachievable though, given the company is already in the marketplace with bike tech products and understands the navigation side well. So theyre essentially repackagingleveraging their existing product for that piece. My bet though is that well see it ship closer to late September or so around Interbike. Just my gut feeling looking at many products and where companies stand. Then weve got pricing. We dont know where they are but theyll be battling what are basically two extremes. On one hand you have something like the Wahoo ELEMNT non BOLT, which is an incredibly capable unit with mapping and such and many other features the Karoo wont have. That sits at 3. The ELEMNT lacks the pretty display, more detailed maps and full routing of the Karoo. It also lacks the 3.