Road Trip GPS plugin for Apple TV
A little while back, Apple TV Hacks posted on a great idea: one of their readers, Brandon Holland, is using an Apple TV as a carputer. He chiefly uses it as an in-car entertainment center, but it also does double duty as a GPS system using the Road Trip plugin which he has now released over at AwkwardTV. It can read GPS data from "any NMEA enabled GPS via a serial connection such as a USB to Serial adapter or a Builtin Serial Port. Map Quest maps are obtained via expedia.com and both USA and Europe maps are availiable and working!" Unfortunately, it doesn't yet store the maps locally so it presently depends a network connection, but Brandon says he's working on it, and soon expects to have it "so that map packs or trips can be cached for a trip."Obviously you'll have to hack your Apple TV to make this work, but given its small size and power requirements, the Apple TV seems like a great foundation for a carputer.
[via Apple TV Hacks]
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artman1033 said 9:22AM on 10-16-2007
Having a TV screen within view of the driver will give every highway patrolman reason to pull you over at night. When I used my magellan 700, I was pulled over often because the blue screen gave the impression, I was watching TV.
DON'T DO IT.
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seth said 11:06AM on 10-16-2007
i had a carpc in my last 2 cars and never once was hounded by law enforcement, then again i fabricated flush mount brackets so it looked like a stock navigation screen.
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Aymeric said 11:13AM on 10-16-2007
oh man! can he makes a bluetooth plugin for the iphone so it can work with a BT GPS receiver like this one?
http://store.everythingiphone.com/content/accessories/10-95--2230.htm
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