Tune Your Car with a Gameboy Advance

Posted by Zonk on Monday February 14, 2005 @05:49AM 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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and that's.. by Goeland86 · 2005-02-14 06:40 · Score: 3, Interesting

forbidden under California law. You're not allowed to keep a powered screen other than for navigational aid ahead of the driver's seat headrest, unless you're driving a cab or an emergency response vehicle. So unless you can add GPS as well as other statistics coming on it, CA won't let you use it.

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1. Re:and that's.. by Grey+Ninja · 2005-02-14 07:04 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  What about a speedometer? I used to have a digital speedometer in my car, and because I had that, I couldn't drive it in California? I think when a law is unjust, it's your duty to break that law. ;-)