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Tune Your Car with a Gameboy Advance

Posted by Zonk on from the first-you-have-to-know-how-to-tune-your-car dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A company named Turboxs has created an interface for the Gameboy Advance that plugs into your car. It appears to allow for tuning as well as data logging. The Turboxs Dtec lets you use your Gameboy as a Boost Gauge, Exhaust Gas Temperature Gauge, Air Temperature Gauge and Tachometer. Future plug-n-play sensors will allow everything from Knock Indication to Vehicle Acceleration. Previously this was only available via a laptop or pda, but bringing this to the gameboy may open up performance tuning to the masses without the expensive peripheral hardware."

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  1. This Is Crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actual information from actual people who aren't dumb.
    http://www.team-integra.net/forum/display_topic_th reads.asp?ForumID=10&TopicID=103301&SearchPagePosi tion=1&search=%22gameboy%22&searchMode=allwords&se archIn=Topic&forum=0&searchSort=dateDESC&ReturnPag e=Search

  2. Gameboy Advanced Replaces Slashdot Editors by Beatbyte · · Score: 4, Informative

    Original Story

    Now all we have to do is wait until October 2004 for it to ship! errr....

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    Get paid to code OSS
  3. iCard by vasqzr · · Score: 2, Informative


    There's also an iCard reciever for Gameboys that lets you tap into a live feed of information while you're at a track that supports it.

    http://www.jegs.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisp lay?prrfnbr=208068&prmenbr=361

  4. Re:slim on the details by jimi+the+hippie · · Score: 1, Informative

    It will work with any OBD-II car. If your car is '96 or newer, it has OBD-II. If it is older, you will have to check for your individual car.