Hi all,
My name is Thomas, but everybody call me Vik'.
I live in the french country side with my wife and my two sons, am 29 years old.
I'm employed as an engineer in a small company, working in theaters and operas in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Saudi Arabia. My work consists in programming hard real time PLCs (x86 / VxWorks) for motion control and safety, both using real time ethernet as communication protocol. Other than that, I also work on a thin client application, using Qt framework, running on embedded computers (non-real time side), to allow theater machinists to control/monitor/sequence their hoists the easy way.
And when I've got time for it, I race a Bimota SB6-R motorcycle.
This is the thing that brings me here.
It's a 1995 italian bike, powered by a water cooled Suzuki GSXR 1100 engine, making around 160bhp for 188kg (-> 414lbs). Mine is a bit tuned, and lightened. On french tracks, it's an amazing toy, essentialy used by me for endurance racing, but I also use it for short hill climb (here in France, it's about 2 to 4 kilometers long). And every winter I put it back into a street legal config.
It's running on carbs, and stock electronic ignition which is based only on RPM, and I'm tired of tuning the carbs each time the climate changes, backing ignition advance when I know I have bad fuel...
I already have a PIC32 that logs (rpm, tps, 4 AFR, knock and lap times) to an SDCard, so that tuning is a bit easier, but I still need to strip all the bike to access to carbs.
I see several options for the ECU, Free EMS being (I hope) one of them.
I think (tell me if I'm wrong) a thing like Microsquirt would be sufficient as a start point, but I would like to implement uncommon functionalities like traction control, anti-wheeling, power-shift with different timing for up/down on each gear, and maybe embedded datalogging (SD/CF Card or USB stick). For that purpose, an evolutive and open source project sounds god to me.
Another option would be to use a "motorcycle aimed" race ECU that allready does everything, but it's way more expensive and less interesting IMO.
I hope my english isn't too horrible... to apologize for that, here is a photo of my bike during last winter, in its road configuration:
And I hope, many other projects, since I have several other vehicules (Volvo 740, Yamaha 500 XT, Voxan 1000 CafeRacer, ...) that could be good candidates to programmable EFI.