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Re:Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and App... by platelets2020 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:35PM (#25449724)
DIY project? He purchased a brand new, off the shelf spin bike and put a cadence sensor on it.

I'm not sure when it happened, but the bar for saying things like "built" has become so low that we get titles and "projects" like these.

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Re:Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and App... by JamesMontemagno on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:54PM (#25449905)
I guess I consider it DIY as it is combining the Bike, Tablet, and Sensor together instead of buying an all in 1 package that restricts you to a specific service.
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Re:Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and App... by daniellarusso on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:56PM (#25449920)
At least it was not a ‘life hack.’
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Re:Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and App... by JamesMontemagno on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:59PM (#25449956)
Yeah, I don't consider my post a hack or constructing the bike from scratch at all. That would be super impressive IMHO. I just did a bunch of research, found the lowest minimal requirements in what I was looking for in a spin bike and wrote about it :)
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