Hi all,

Last time when I released sCANalyser Live 1.0, I ran a competition to come up with a name for the product. That was a great success and provided you - the RX-8 community - to have a little bit of you in my product. Trumagellan won the competition, and for his efforts he scored a free copy of sCANalyser Live 1.0, with the required hardware.

Now, for the past 3 years, I have been working on bringing a new product to market specifically for us RX-8 rotor nerds. It is the natural progression of sCANalyser Live, and really the whole point of that original project was to get here. I want you all to know, this product has been built from the ground up specifically for RX-8's.

So what is it?

sCANalyser Pro Tuner *

* Trademark Application Pending

sCANalyser Pro Tuner is a complete computer software and hardware application that allows you to:


Retrieve the EXACT engine management maps from your RX-8's PCM (Powertrain Control Module), otherwise known as the ECU
View the tuning maps both numerically and graphically (2D and 3D charts)
Edit the maps, such as fueling requirements, lead/trailing ignition advance, sensor calibrations, Idle speed, Fan speeds etc.
Save the maps onto your desktop PC or Laptop
Push the maps onto a special hardware device we call a brick. The brick is about the size of a matchbox, and plugs into the OBDII connector under your dash.
Reflash the new maps stored on the brick to the RX-8's PCM. This takes 20 seconds, and you don't even need to pop the hood or open your toolbox.
Use the brick to do "hands-off" data logging, just like a system used in a race car such as a MoTeC ECU.
Upload the logs to your Laptop or Desktop PC and graphically and numerically interpret the logged data.
Connect your laptop directly to the RX-8 via the brick for normal Scan-Tool functionality providing FAST real time gauges (perfect for a carputer), checking CEL codes, clearing CELs etc.


Now I have explain the product, what is the competition for?

Well, the prize for the winner of the competition is a FREE copy (including hardware) of the sCANalyser Pro Tuner suite. [Laptop/PC not included!!]

My website is now very outdated (http://www.hymee.com redirects you). I really need a fresh look and update with my current mainstream products. These are:

Hymee Enhanced RX-8 Cat-back Sports Exhaust system
Hymee Enhanced RX-8 Twin-Screw Supercharger system
Hymee Enhanced sCANalyser Live USB
Hymee Enhanced sCANalyser Pro Tuner

To enter the competition, please forward me a proposal to design and build me a new funky website. I would like your proposal to include a sample site mockup showing me a general arrangement and ideas for styles/graphics. You could do that in Word or PowerPoint if you like, but if you do a dummy HTML site for me to check out on my via my own IIS server that that would be great.

The sorts of things I would like to see addressed in the proposal are:


Tools required to maintain site (I am a software engineer by profession specialising in Windows/.NET technology. I'm web savvy, but not a day-day web developer.)
Ease of use in updating pages and product images etc.
Ease of use in adding additional pages, such as racing activities or photo galleries
Accessibility to my other sites (Hymee blog and forum)
Some form of Motorsport / Automotive Performance theme (that makes me all firm :))
Hymee Enhanced branding would be disireable, and also a reference to my company "Performance Design Australia" would be a nice touch.


I am not requiring a secure on-line shopping cart experience, but it would be intended to add simple PayPal purchasing functions later.

If you would like to enter the competition, please send me your proposal via email to mark at performancedesign dot com dot au. (Sorry to do that - but my old hymee at hymee dot com got out on the web and I get spammed something chronic - so bad that it appears I'm even spamming myself :()

Feel free to ask questions here about the competition. It probably isn't a good place to discuss the product, so I'll leave that for another thread.

Finally some history...

As I mentioned, this is something that I personally have been working towards for 5 years. 3 years ago another party got involved, but the results did not eventuate. I am now on my own again, and in control of my own destiny. So when I got to a point when I knew I was going to be able to make a product happen to allow for you to tune your RX-8's PCM without having to even open the hood, I made a "major" announcement (which can be found in here someplace). At the time, no one had released an RX-8 tuning/reflashing solution. More than once company said they were going to. Once company looked like they might, but it all seemed to go quiet. I made a commitment to the RX-8 community to release a beta version to a limited number of users within a small timeframe - and I hit that mark with only a small delay. Somehow I awoke the competition from their slumber - and next thing you know, another product was coming. Oh well. I could have given up then, but I persisted as I still believed I would have a superior product and solution. In fact, I was providing my beta testers around the world with a solution way before the competitor had anything for outside North America. And one of my first customers was in Germany and used his sCANalyser Pro Tuner to allow his RX-8's PCM to control the engine management fucntions for his turbo'ed Renesis engine - no piggy back required.

So now my beta phase is coming to a close, and I have more and more people wanting this - hence I decided it is time for a re-vamp of my web site, and an opportunity for you to have a crack at it and win yourself your very own sCANalyser Pro Tuner suite.

What da ya reckon???

Cheers,
Hymee.

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Fantastic Hymee:) I want:) hmm i suck at web site creating but ive got a good eye. ill have to contact a friend of mine see if he wants to help me.:)

Great news that you are releasing this awesome product to the community - good job Hymee .

Hmmmmmm.....interesting. I use to do websites on the side. Maybe I'll consider putting something together.

The Force is not strong in this one for website design. :banghead:

Either way, I'm excited to see more things coming out from you Mark and look forward to the new site. C'mon guys, lets see what you guys have got.

Although I'm no where near a web-developers level of tech savvy, this most likely requires minimal scripting, and potentially could be maintained using freeware tools on the internet.

If I get some free time I'll try to come up with something, but I don't want anything too graphically intense (for bandwidth preservation)

Do you have any graphics/logos you would like to see incorporated?

I'm a freelance designer/developer. Check out my portfolio. www.altspace.com Thanks!

im excited. Wonder which one im going to get either this one or the cobb ap

altspace does nice work!

Hot.

I'm a freelance designer/developer. Check out my portfolio. www.altspace.com Thanks!


Excellent. Send me a proposal as explained above!

Cheers,
Hymee.

Only problem with freeware tools and such is that it might present a false impression(price wise) and then as things grow and the site needs to develop more, you have to start dropping cash. This sometimes gets upsetting when it looks like all the sudden you have jacked the price for development and/or running the site.

I did a couple of sites for some travel agent friends and other people and while I didn't run into this issue per say, it has to be considered. What I did run into was expansion of site...needing more bandwidth......hence more server space(mo money).

people still pay for software these days? :scratchhe

:suspect:

people still pay for software these days? :scratchhe

:suspect:

I hope so, otherwise I have been wasting my time.

Cheers,
Hymee.

yours needs hardware to function, that's different. ;)

Yeah if you want a pre-packaged shopping cart, accepting credit cards.....you know.....ecommerce etc.
Just for one example. It really depends on how detailed you want/need to be.

Hymee, I'll pass on the website design but I will offer my services to manage your firewall moving forward :lol: :eyetwitch :banghead: :rant: :Eyecrazy:

I still can't get to your website from my home. Please tell your provider to unblock the USA. It's okay to trust us, mostly.

im at home and i can reach it easily

Frustrating part is that I'm a Comcast business customer and I'm blocked. I pay high dollar for a static IP and Hymee's provider won't let me past the front door.


Application Firewall Alert


Your request triggered an alert! If you feel that you have received this page in error, please contact the administrator of this web site.

To immediately resolve this problem. You can login to your hosting control panel->security->Security guard and set the security guard to Medium Level for your domain name.

Hymee; I got the back end covered...

So the design winner can come and get the cart; products and site / product admin pieces from me for free.

Sound cool? It is all in .aspx


I am teh suxors at making anything look pretty.... :(

people still pay for software these days? :scratchhe

:suspect:

I sure hope so, because otherwise I'm really in the wrong line of business. Best of luck Hymee on this... I would offer to do it, but honestly I'm so freaking busy these days I don't have time to even do a mockup let alone the real site. I also haven't worked with .NET in a few years. I went over to the dark side and I'm all J2EE/Flex on Solaris these days.

Yes! The time is nearing! !!!

What kind of CPU and Memory power do we need to run the gauges in "Live" mode with no lag?

from my limited knowledge, shouldnt be enough to be concerned with...

I know, I'm running his older software, and my laptop sucks being a PIII at 867MHz. Just curious if this is coded for better speed with lesser hardware driving it, than the sCANalyser Live product.

:eek:

What kind of CPU and Memory power do we need to run the gauges in "Live" mode with no lag?

The "old" sCANalyser Live was probably more bound by serial port comms limitations, whereas the new one is USB based.

If you want to monitor coolant temp, then set that to refresh once per second as it changes slowly over time.

Cheers,
Hymee.

Hymee i think what he's asking is what kind of processing power would be required to recieve interprut and then display LIVE gauge monitoring - ie proccessing power required to keep up displaying the live data feed at X refresh rate... not so much data rates that the comm method can provide.

thats why i said not enough to worry about..

^ Correct

USB would definitely be better for me, I have your older serial port brick. But my real limitation is my abacus of a laptop I have. LOL

well figure this... the AP can do it.... its very unlikely that it has more raw processing power than your abacus... but alot could depend on how the software is written... i still wouldnt think it'd be a need for concern

Excellent. Send me a proposal as explained above!

Cheers,
Hymee.

Coming your way today.

altspace does nice work!

Thanks Paul.



I am teh suxors at making anything look pretty.... :(

...and I'm on the other end. I can only code HTML, CSS, etc. but I make things purty. ;)

Coming your way today.

Look forward to adding your proposal to the list!

Cheers,
Hymee.

The winner is Altspace.

Well done! Please check your email :)

Cheers,
Hymee.

Congrats Altspace!

Thanks Kane, and thank you Hymee. I'm very excited to get rolling on this.

You want that Back-End Josh?

grats Altspace!

I'm sure it will be kickass, I've seen your work before! :icon_tup:

Congrats altspace, you do fantastic design work, I look forward to seeing the end result.

Josh LOVES the backend....

I was waiting for that...

That's cause James only knows from experience. ;)
Just look at the quite in his sig, "Now imagine that I am an anal sphincter..."

You east coast guys.... :icon_no2:

Cool and congrats - now when is the free supercharger contest to begin?

:jump:

hey now, lets get one thing straight... i wasnt the reciever...

All I can say is his mockup gave me wood.

question: this product still will have the same limit of 100 PCM flashes that people have encountered right?

Also, what is the sample rate if we were to log only one PID? like 50-80? and then each additional PID will effectively divide that sample rate by the number of parameter's logged, correct?

the limit is in the renasas chip in the pcm its not a function of the tuning device. however Cobb has flashed a single pcm more than 100 as has Hymee. Both have found a limit. the 100 flash limit its Spec'd for is cautionary. the actual limit varies chip to chip.

^^ MM is over 500 reflashes on a single PCM.

Well? Where is the new site?! :D:

All I can say is his cockup gave me wood.

fixed :lol:

Well? Where is the new site?! :D:

I need to send him some pics...

Fire away!

Hymee,
Patience is burning a hole in my pocket for this product. I'm still willing to wait but any ETA on the scanalyser pro?

Thanks!

Hymee,
Patience is burning a hole in my pocket for this product. I'm still willing to wait but any ETA on the scanalyser pro?

Thanks!

Just send me a PM or an email (sales at performancedesign dotcom dot au, without the obsfucation). I'm happy to supply now, even though the website is not finished (waiting on me to send altspace some more info!). I have units ready to ship.

Cheers,
Hymee.

PM'd, naturally.

hear that? its the sound of my fingers drumming on the desk waiting to see the new site:)

hear that? its the sound of my fingers drumming on the desk waiting to see the new site:)


OK - I'm uploading it now...

Cheers,
Hymee.

What about my last email I sent to you????

Yeah - that was a beaudy!

Cheers,
Hymee.

BTW - Lets not spam this with personal messages ;)

OK Peeps, the new website is on-line.

Well done altSpace. If you don't like how I did some of the minor edits let me know!!!

www.performancedesign.com.au

Cheers,
Hymee.

yes well done :)

looking good there mark

Thanks Mark. My pleasure.

website looks GREAT!
(no link on their to your forum?)

(no link on their to your forum?)

Yeah - I never asked alty to do that, but I plan on just following his lead.

I need to add links to:

forum.hymee.com
blog.hymee.com
and also Hymee Enhanced Racing :)

Cheers,
Hymee.

Thanks Mark. My pleasure.

Your da man. I'm popping your SPT into the mail today :)

Cheers,
Hymee.

Thanks man! If you need anything else just give a shout. I also specialize in email marketing. ;)

I link to my website would be great!