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Ultimate Automotive Computer Installation

Posted by pudge on from the i-have-seen-the-future-and-it-is-good dept.

ErnstKompressor writes "I came across a story detailing an awesome car mod out of the Czech Republic. The author undertook what must be the most impressive exercise in computer integration I have ever seen, installing an extensive Mac system with custom Cocoa software controlling nearly every aspect of a 1993 Tatra 613. On-board systems monitoring, navigation, entertainment, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, plus much more, are all rolled into a tight, extensible, package. Check it out."

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  1. Ultimate Taxi by stuffduff · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There's a taxi in Aspin Colorado called The Ultimate Taxi. He's been around for years and just keeps getting better.

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    "Can there be a Klein bottle that is an efficient and effective beer pitcher?"
  2. Cocoa in the "embedded" world? by MurrayTodd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It sounds like a brilliant idea. I'm almost surprised I'd never thought of that before. I'm always hearing discussion of which OS to use for "embedded" projects (in that I mean things outside the standard ordinary PC computer.)

    Ever since coming out as the basis for the NeXT computer over 15 years ago, the objective-c based NeXTSTEP/OpenSTEP/Cocoa framework has been touted as one of the most amazingly powerful that a person can develop in. In the old NeXT days I remember hearing the [informal] statement that one programmer up to speed with NeXTSTEP could do the work of about 10 normal programmers. I took that with a grain of salt until I started trying to write some simple apps for the first time in OS X's cocoa.

    It is so easy and refreshing in ways I couldn't express with worlds! Writing anything in C++ anymore makes me want to pull my hair out. Sadly, it [objective-c & Cocoa] is still rather obscure. But it would be such a wonderful world if we got to see a renaissance? FINALLY the GNUStep project is beginning to approach a level of usability. If embedded applications started to become a reality...

    Oh, that's about as silly a pipe dream as hoping Howard Dean becomes President!

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    Murray Todd Williams
  3. iPod by dimer0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't care about all this stuff.. I just want a real audio deck that you can plug your ipod into. (Sorta like inserting a cartridge, just slam the ipod into the device and have it 'dock' with the stereo)..

    Now THAT is the ultimate car audio solution. Ahh