some of you are probably rubbing your eyes, but you read it correctly. unix on a motorcycle.
a fellow by the name of ben installed a freebsd powered pc into his kawasaki z1000. a webcam on his helmet connects to a video capture board in the pc, which he uses to record movies of trips to the burrito store. his future plans are to have the freebsd box control his ipod, track gps data, and potentially interconnect with the bike’s ecu.
a kick ass case mod, a unix media center, and a cool extension of the car pc theme. if i could last more than 10 seconds on a motorcycle in the best video game ever without ejecting over a parked car, i might consider trying this out myself. until then, i think i’ll stick to walking.
thanks for the link, xfred.
