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  10                 <title>Free software car computer solution?</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Dear lazyweb.  I&#39;m planning to set up a small Raspberry Pi computer
  15 in my car, connected to
  16 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dx.com/p/400a-4-0-tft-lcd-digital-monitor-for-vehicle-parking-reverse-camera-1440x272-12v-dc-57776&quot;&gt;a
  17 small screen&lt;/a&gt; next to the rear mirror.  I plan to hook it up with a
  18 GPS and a USB wifi card too.  The idea is to get my own
  19 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carputer&quot;&gt;Carputer&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  But I
  20 wonder if someone already created a good free software solution for
  21 such car computer.&lt;/p&gt;
  22
  23 &lt;p&gt;This is my current wish list for such system:&lt;/p&gt;
  24
  25 &lt;ul&gt;
  26
  27  &lt;li&gt;Work on Raspberry Pi.&lt;/li&gt;
  28
  29  &lt;li&gt;Show current speed limit based on location, and warn if going too
  30    fast (for example using color codes yellow and red on the screen,
  31    or make a sound).  This could be done either using either data from
  32    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openstreetmap.org/&quot;&gt;Openstreetmap&lt;/a&gt; or OCR
  33    info gathered from a dashboard camera.&lt;/li&gt;
  34
  35  &lt;li&gt;Track automatic toll road passes and their cost, show total spent
  36    and make it possible to calculate toll costs for planned
  37    route.&lt;/li&gt;
  38
  39  &lt;li&gt;Collect GPX tracks for use with OpenStreetMap.&lt;/li&gt;
  40
  41  &lt;li&gt;Automatically detect and use any wireless connection to connect
  42    to home server.  Try IP over DNS
  43    (&lt;a href=&quot;http://dev.kryo.se/iodine/&quot;&gt;iodine&lt;/a&gt;) or ICMP
  44    (&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.gerade.org/hans/&quot;&gt;Hans&lt;/a&gt;) if direct
  45    connection do not work.&lt;/li&gt;
  46
  47  &lt;li&gt;Set up mesh network to talk to other cars with the same system,
  48    or some standard car mesh protocol.&lt;/li&gt;
  49
  50  &lt;li&gt;Warn when approaching speed cameras and speed camera ranges
  51    (speed calculated between two cameras).&lt;/li&gt;
  52
  53  &lt;li&gt;Suport dashboard/front facing camera to discover speed limits and
  54    run OCR to track registration number of passing cars.&lt;/li&gt;
  55
  56 &lt;/ul&gt;
  57
  58 &lt;p&gt;If you know of any free software car computer system supporting
  59 some or all of these features, please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;
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