Aaron Parecki is the co-founder of Geoloqi.com, and specializes in backend systems development.
A lot of information about this device online is misleading. When I first heard about this, the site I was reading claimed the transmitter didn’t have a battery, and used the energy from the foot impact to power the burst transmission of the device’s ID. This is what got me excited about the device in the first place: that it was so simple.
Other places I’ve read say there is an... 
I just got a Nike+iPod gadget thingy. It’s pretty cool, and stores all the running stats in xml files on the iPod, making for easy hacking of the running data. However, that’s not what I really want to do with it.
I got one of Sparkfun’s USB serial adapters for it, and can now get the raw data off of it. What I need to be able to detect is whether the sensor received an impact.
Before I...
