Nook, Nookie, Nootered, and Torque.

[Wiregeek]

So I pulled the trigger, and just ordered http://www.dealextreme.co...transceiver-dongle-16921
I've got an appointment here in about ten minutes, and afterwards I'm cruising into Barnes and Noble to snatch up a Nook Color.
Cyanogen just put a fresh Release Candidate for the Nook Color that's Android 2.3.3, includes full accelerated/native hardware drivers for everything except the FM radio in the Nook, and has an install process of like..  five steps.
a copy of Torque is gonna run me about five bucks, and here..  we...  go!
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Kurisu]

I have one myself, and have been watching the B&N discussion threads. The big thing that's going around is that the update hasn't come down yet.
EDIT: Just looked in the threads again, to be sure, and they're saying this Monday. (04/25/11)
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DEATH is Certain. The hour, Uncertain...

[Wiregeek]

bugger the update.

I'm now running Android 2.3.3 (Cyanogenmod CM7 Stable)

WHOLE NEW BALLGAME.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Rod.H]

I would ask why, but then I noticed the OBD II to wifi adaptor and thought "hmmm". How ever I still want a decent HUD system to fit for I live in land of everyone must watch the speedo, cos speed kills*.

*yet its the rapid decrees of mv to zero generally due to hitting a solid object(generally read: tree) which does it
--Rod.H

[Black Aeronaut]

Hrm... This is interesting. Gonna have to see if something similar is available for iOS4. It'd be nice to be able to clear those pesky 'Check Engine' lights if there is indeed no major issue.

[Kurisu]

Sorry, I misunderstood you... I didn't think you were going to root the nook.

I'm not confident with my skills to try something like that.
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DEATH is Certain. The hour, Uncertain...

[Wiregeek]

It's almost absurdly simple, but yes, it's certainly not supported by.. erhm.. Borders? Waldenbooks?

oh, yeah, Barnes and Noble.

check out the Cyanogenmod wiki, there is a strong userbase support.

So far, with a day or two of use under the belt, I'm almost absurdly pleased. The physical device is the perfect size - it fills one of my breast pockets in my vest, and doesn't interfere with the seatbelt. The android OS is responsive (and gets better every time I turn a pretty off), and the browser is very much acceptable.

Given that I carry an HTC desire (more CPU, 1ghz/800mhz, less ram, 478/512, less graphics) as my cellphone, it's quite nice.

now I just gotta wait until the ODB II dongle shows up.

Until then, it's my primary web terminal, and once I port a few books over, most likely my reader, too.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Wiregeek]

speed kills*.

Which is untrue on the face of it. Distracted Driving kills, lack of training kills, and impaired driving kills.

Repeal all non-school speed limits (or just convert them into advisory), and start enforcing tailgating and reckless laws, and fatalities (and revenue) would plummet.

So we'll never see that.

My current game plan is to fab a bracket that will bolt in under the existing sunvisor bracket, and hold the Nook against the windshield (where the sunvisor goes when it's folded down). This puts it within eye-change vs. head-change range, and the sunvisor is a stout enough mount point that it ain't going nowhere, if I fab a decent bracket. I can tap power off of the existing powered-rear-view-mirror, and adapt that out to 5v/micro USB for power. Everything else happens via wireless or onboard sensors.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[robkelk]

speed kills*.

Which is untrue on the face of it. Distracted Driving kills, lack of training kills, and impaired driving kills.

If that's the meaning you're using, maybe. But it's also true that Speed kills.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Wiregeek]

I know a guy who knew a guy who's cousin committed suicide because of Speed
*snrk*
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[paladindythe]

I'm of hte opinion that most Speed Limit laws are about fuel conservation.

[Rod.H]

I'm of hte opinion that most Speed Limit laws are about fuel conservation.

Understandable when going by my back of an envelope calculations, a Bugatti Veyron traveling at around it's top speed (~400km/h) would only travel 80kms before both needing a refuel(~US$100) and new tires(US$25000).

[Wiregeek]

a Bugatti Veyron traveling at around it's top speed (~400km/h) would
only travel 80kms before both needing a refuel(~US$100) and new
tires(US$25000).

Unless it 'swerved' to 'avoid' a 'pelican'.


"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Logan Darklighter]

I'm of hte opinion that mostSpeed Limitlaws are about fuel conservation.

Understandable when going by my back of an envelope calculations, a Bugatti Veyron traveling at around it's top speed (~400km/h) would only travel 80kms before both needing a refuel(~US$100) and new tires(US$25000).

(Commentary while taking the Bugatti Veyron on a speed test up to its max of 251 MPH at the Volkswagon test circuit straight)
JAMES MAY: "At this speed, the tires will only last for fifteen minutes! But it's okay! Because the fuel runs out in twelve!"

[Wiregeek]

that was such a wonderful bit. Honorless dogs, make way for Captain Slow!
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Rod.H]

Okay so you would probably need a new set of tires soon after refueling and resumption of traveling at ~400km/h, oh and then you'd need US$70,000(tires+s&h+insurance+fitting) to cover the shipping of the wheels back to France so that they can have new tires fitted. So that's what? one week, two?. Therefore a Bugatti Veyron driven at constant top speed gets worse range and downtime than a Tesla Voltwhatever it is.

[Wiregeek]

Yep! Edge Cases are where things fall apart -

Turning and turning in the arrow-straight gyre

The driver cannot hear the mechanic;

Things fall apart; the rubber cannot hold;

Mere electricity is loosed upon the world,

The volt-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

There ceremony of combustion is drowned;

The best lack all fuel, while the worst

Are burning coal energy off the grid.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Green Revolution is at hand.

The Green Revolution! Hardly are those words out

When a vast image out of Reason.com

Troubles my sight: a waste of DC politicians;

A shape with a lying body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the solar energy collector,

Is moving its slow jaws, while all about it

Wind shadows of the indignant nuclear plant operators.

The gas price drops again but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a subsidy bill

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards D.C. to be born?
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Logan Darklighter]

:O *Stunned Silence* 

*Slow clap*