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srod wrote:We have 'Dragons Den' over here which is about the only TV program I watch (apart from repeats of the Simpsons that is!) as it is absolute class. Some of the barmy ideas people bring forth are sometimes beyond belief! A plastic cucumber 'condom' comes to mind!

Sounds like fun. Do you know if they have webTV?

srod wrote:Anyhow, Geo, anyone who can put together something like this is worthy of total respect.

Thanks for that, but it's too early to give me comments like that, yet

srod wrote:But, do not executive cars already come equipped with GPS receivers and temp. sensors and such like? And the portable devices are now so cheap (e.g. TomTom - or whatever it's called?) that it would be very very difficult to compete.

Just an immediate thought which occurs to me.

Yes I know that. But it's not ment to be used a a drivers navigation unit. The idea is to hopefully sell the unit to big companies like police, insurance and rescue services. Probably said too much already, but hey

GeoTrail wrote:Yes I know that. But it's not ment to be used a a drivers navigation unit. The idea is to hopefully sell the unit to big companies like police, insurance and rescue services. Probably said too much already, but hey

No worries - mum's the word!

srod wrote:

GeoTrail wrote:Yes I know that. But it's not ment to be used a a drivers navigation unit. The idea is to hopefully sell the unit to big companies like police, insurance and rescue services. Probably said too much already, but hey

No worries - mum's the word!

Sounds to me a "black box" for a car!! Which is done allready here in the netherlands they are doing tests whit those black boxes. So if it is that sorry is been done allready.

By the way why do not use this instead of an epia board (which are very good by the way i use 2 boards at the moment).

Look here:

http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjr/index.html

They go for around a 120 dollar each and buy them for a 1000 for 90 dollar.

Have fun with your project. By the way what OS are you going to use? Linux or windows?

Jan V.

Jan Vooijs wrote:Sounds to me a "black box" for a car!! Which is done allready here in the netherlands they are doing tests whit those black boxes. So if it is that sorry is been done allready.

In a way, yes it is sort of a blackbox. But then again, it's going to be alot more then that. I know about blackboxes in cars thare are already on the market. I drive a cab here, a Volvo V70 AWD and it has all the gear and kit you can cram into a car these days. And it has GPS system for use with cabs for security and such. But it lacks a few things, that's where I come in. But I don't want to go into details of my plans on taking this further.

Jan Vooijs wrote:By the way why do not use this instead of an epia board (which are very good by the way i use 2 boards at the moment).

Look here:

http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjr/index.html

They go for around a 120 dollar each and buy them for a 1000 for 90 dollar.

Have fun with your project. By the way what OS are you going to use? Linux or windows?

Jan V.

Looks interesting, having a look at it now.

It would probably be easier to use Windows, but a lot cheaper to use some form of Linux on it.

Jan Vooijs wrote:By the way why do not use this instead of an epia board.. They go for around a 120 dollar each and buy them for a 1000 for 90 dollar.

Thanks Jan for this info - these little things look smaller than the EPIA Nano, and much cheaper (though much less MHz but for some apps, it would be ok). I agree EPIA boards are quite good, but they aren't necessarily cheap but have good capabilities.

The Panda PC is only alittle bit bigger and has a 2GHz CPU. Pretty cool.

srod wrote:But, do not executive cars already come equipped with GPS receivers and temp. sensors and such like?

Not just executive cars, here in the US many cars come with GPS navigation built in. And then there's Magellan, a GPS navigation system that you can add to a car that doesn't already have it.

GeoTrail wrote:Yes I know that. But it's not ment to be used a a drivers navigation unit. The idea is to hopefully sell the unit to big companies like police, insurance and rescue services. Probably said too much already, but hey

Sounds like something like Lo-Jack, Lo-Jack is a device that helps police find a stolen car by sending out a signal that can be tracked. Don't know if Lo-Jack uses GPS though.

One company makes a small device that does use GPS that you can attach to your kid's clothing or backpack so you can keep track of where they are.

GeoTrail wrote:The Panda PC is only alittle bit bigger and has a 2GHz CPU

The page says 1GHz, so I'd say they're using a EPIA board.

Tipperton wrote:Sounds like something like Lo-Jack, Lo-Jack is a device that helps police find a stolen car by sending out a signal that can be tracked. Don't know if Lo-Jack uses GPS though.

I know about that, and it isn't the same.

One company makes a small device that does use GPS that you can attach to your kid's clothing or backpack so you can keep track of where they are.[/quote]I know about LoJack. It is based on wireless radio frequency technology. And doesn't use GPS.

Tipperton wrote:One company makes a small device that does use GPS that you can attach to your kid's clothing or backpack so you can keep track of where they are.

Yeah I saw that on a show called Beyond Tomorrow

Hi GeoTrail, I was just reading about this USB temperature/humidity sensor & thought of you, maybe it's of interest (though it's a little bit expensive, it might be useful for prototyping) http://www.dlpdesign.com/usb/th1.shtml [edit: here's a cheaper module - multi-channel temp sensor interface board http://www.dlpdesign.com/usb/temp.shtml - comes with one temp sensor, supports 3 max].

That looks really cool. And it has an alarm feature too. Damn, this seems perfect for my project. Might save me a ton of work.
Thanks a lot for the post mskuma

$99.95 is a bit expensive but hopefully they have some sort of bulk discount. If not it's not realistic for my project.

Any news for this project ?

@Geo:

Theres this lil x86 AMD based PC Systems with 12v input - i have used one of theese to build my own car A/V Box with motiondetection for a few goodies ^^

Anyway PB Linux ( Especially with a realtime Linux when sensors involoved ) runs fine with it.

check out theese:
http://wwwd.amd.com/catalog/salescat.ns ... =Processor

Thalius