Man of Honour
Been thinking about combineing my interest of driving and expanding my programming skills by writeing a "little" mobile java app..... After using my tomtom as a indication of whats comming corner wise while driveing unknowen fast roads
The basic idea would be a gps co-driver for your car, something that you can program in a route and make notes of the course. The real benafit would be for tracks, imagine having a visual or audio (would have to be v-loud) giving you an idea of what kinda speed you want to be hitting a corner at, how long/tight/cambered the corner would be. Or even just a map of the course - like in most racing games....
I'd be looking to develop it as a java mobile app, using a bluetooth connection to a gps unit.
Could also be used for lap and split timeings, speed indications etc etc
Issues would be the accuracy and speed of updates, limiting its effectiveness on a tight track
what do you think? usefull?
Laters
Sam
The basic idea would be a gps co-driver for your car, something that you can program in a route and make notes of the course. The real benafit would be for tracks, imagine having a visual or audio (would have to be v-loud) giving you an idea of what kinda speed you want to be hitting a corner at, how long/tight/cambered the corner would be. Or even just a map of the course - like in most racing games....
I'd be looking to develop it as a java mobile app, using a bluetooth connection to a gps unit.
Could also be used for lap and split timeings, speed indications etc etc
Issues would be the accuracy and speed of updates, limiting its effectiveness on a tight track
what do you think? usefull?
Laters
Sam