Pinewood Derby Timer

[Rick Stanziale]

http://members.aol.com/pinetimer/works.htm

Could be re-worked for slalom racing that includes a start gate.

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http://grandprix-software-central.com/gprm/

Cheap software that could be re-worked for slalom racing. It lists several timing systems that integrate to automatically record the times in the program.

[Glenn S]

Rick,
The biggest problem with the Pinewood timers is that most of them only go up to about 10 seconds or so.

[Randy Lisano]

On 2003-09-06 00:07, Glenn S wrote:
Rick,
The biggest problem with the Pinewood timers is that most of them only go up to about 10 seconds or so.

That is true with the commercial Pinewood Derby timers that are available, but if you build a simple parallel port sensor system, then that race software will do the timing up to any max time limit that you set. You can find several plans listed at http://grandprix-race-central.com/finish_line.htm