One man gate

Wuhuu! I stink so I got to write fast :) I just came back from icehockey practices.. so that causes the smell..

I got finished my one man gate. That is the first automatic gate in Finland!! And I made it by myself :) Total costs were about 360 euros. And it works like dream.. well it depends what are you dreams about..

Like you can see from the video, the gate doesn't talk. That's because it's a cheap version. Sound when the gate is peeping faster is replaces talking. Saving is about 1000euros between talking and peeping gate!

Building the gate:
1. Drawings :) and welding were shown in earlier posting.
2. Automatism in the gate is really simple. I ordered the machine from Great Britain. It can be used with air ram or with magnet. I decided magnet, because:

- It's REALLY much cheaper
- That's how you are able to use gate without electricity, I mean with battery, so you can have it everywhere (like tracks in Finland doesn't normally have electricity)
- It was much easier to build
- I don't think air ram would have make gate any better (spring can pull gate down cos one man gate is so light)

Gate up side down, you can see magnet and spring

Battery and the brains (automatism is build inside the lights)

magnet had to be attached to the gate (with screws) and the brains had to be connected to magnet (two wires, that you can't connect wrongly) 

Our youngest rider at weekend :)

One other thing. Strider things in Finland are rolling out perfectly! Last weekend I was having Strider track in my home town. Right in the middle of the center. Weather wasn't that good, but there was really many people checking out the Striders! You can help me by going to check out Strider Finland facebook site. www.facebook.com/stridersuomi. I truly belive that this is what BMX race needs to be able to build up the sport. And Strider just are so super cool!!