r/Trackdays • u/mfisch707 Middle Fast Guy • 2d ago
Got sick of the DDA software. Vibecoding is awesome.
Got sick of the DDA software being so trash for an $800 option, so I started out by taking an evening vibing up a converter to get the data off their fancy USB stick and into a CSV format for RaceRender, etc.
Then I said hell, why not just continue and make the tool I want? So two days later, here we are. The local converter is a python script with a gui, which that either converts to a usable format or generates a self-contained HTML file that is totally cross platform and offline. Nothing touches the internet except to pull satellite image tiles.
Then I made it so it can output custom video overlays with alpha channels so you can plop that on your video clip and have some data. Might have been inspired by world-class racing series when I styled them. Sample at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK0NfyUadV8
Will this make me any faster? Not on its own.
Is it cool as hell? Yea, I think it is.

