Observed arrival · 2026-11-03
Tachyon: open swimming timing for club pools
A volunteer open-hardware project designing an electronic swimming timing system for clubs.
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- Swimming clubs priced out of commercial timing systems
- Worth noticing
- The proposed lane boxes store results locally, and the site says the bus keeps running if one box fails.
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The proposed system separates timing across four modules: a central TC-1 computer, independent LB-1 lane boxes, an ST-1 start system and SW-1 results software. The lane boxes are specified to timestamp five inputs, keep local result memory and communicate over CAN; the site says the bus continues if one box fails. TC-1 and LB-1 are marked in design, SW-1 is a concept, and the site describes ST-1 as usable on its own today.
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