Well, maybe it’s not entirely a Segway, but it’s the right idea. these ubc students went and drew up the plans for a skateboard based segway-like vehicle. they dubbed it “emanual” after the skateboard trick called the manual (come on, you at least played tony hawk for playstation right?). they awesome part is that it works. took a few years, but hey, good things take time. it uses electronic tilt sensors to keep you from falling over and has it’s own control system.
thanks [DBS]
if you have 2 MDXs, and NSX, and an RSX like we do, this might be for you! seriously check it out. honda and Acura have their little built in GPS navigation screens to help guide you to wherever…well that’s gotta look boring after about 1000 miles, so spice it up with some customade skins. there is even a blue screen of death background, which is a wonderful thing. you’ll need a program called dumpnavi that will let you change it. there’s little documentation but the source code is right there. it’d be cool to see some BMWS, infinitis, and other luxury cars hacked.
There is a GUI version, a console version, and good ol’ source code. pick your poison and if anyone actually….wants to try this, please let us know! thanks [pantz]
sheesh, got enough acronyms for you?
either way we don’t care. this is in fact, a Subaru STI converted into an ATV. a kick ass ATV i might add. Just check out some specs
PECIFICATIONS:
ENGINE: 2.0 LITER SUBARU WRX
TURBO CHARGED AND INTERCOOLED
TRANSMISSION: 5 SPEED 4WD
SUSPENSION: BLISTIEN
POWER: 170kw
WEIGHT: 550KG
as we began to drool, we wiped our chins off and continuesreading. this is a turbo charged atv with an intercooler
the site doesn’t have much info because it’s being worked on, but the 5 pics they give you show you how awesome this is . the question is…would it beat an original STI on the road? hmmmm…
this site shows you how to jack in to the gps receiver inside any gm onstar system. it’s as simple as soldering a up a serial cable. you can then connect to it and either run some gps diagnostic software, or switch the device to nmea mode so that you can use it with your gps mapping software in your car pc.
if you’ve got an onstar system but aren’t paying for the service this might be just the hack for you. thanks for the link leo!
here is a slick hack involving a bicycle wheel and a persistence of vision toy.
one thing that’s really cool about this one is there is a second led row that blinks out bitmaps backwards on one side of the wheel. this lets you print out text messages and have them be readable from both sides. it appears to work really well — i’m thinking that the author is probably not a republican
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.
what a drag, your car got booted
