Remote controled RX-8 via iPhone / iPod touch
 

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Full story here

http://www.geekmyride.org/wiki/index...ehicle_Details

Why cant I embed YouTube link?
Can any mod fix the link for me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqZj4ArrlhA&eurl

HOw much, where can i buy, Im saving my money right now to get this set up!!!! lol

You have to use the EMBED tags and the embed link from the youtube video.

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:Eyecrazy:

I was waiting for him to show us how he shuts the car off, right after he turned it on.


Think that IPod can also deflood? lol

Incredible... more stuff to do with a car pc... :D

so basically all that work...just to make it do something a viper remote can already do?

April....FOOLS.

Aww you really had them going.

Engadget is well known for their believable April fools jokes. There have been some good ones floating around today.

lol. i didnt even look at the web site. just watched the video posted here. i was like...wtf...is the point in that.

I wouldn't be so quick to write it off as an AF joke. It is all technically possible. I can do all of that with the remote to my wife's Subaru. It just seems overkill in this case.

The problem is the computer would need to be powered constantly, thus draining the battery, but it is possible with an auxiliary battery. Also computers currently have limited ODBII abilities, at least to the general public and anything you could put on a carputer. Granted I'm not 100% on what any ODB software might be able to read and it could be possible it can read all that information already.

Yes this could be possible in theory, but the person doing it would need knowledge in web programming since it was all controlled over HTTP according to the guy's statement, iPhone development, ODB2 development, and some type of programming skills. It would be an interesting project, but completely worthless imo since there are better alternatives.

man I was expecting to see some James Bond style 8 driving around remotely.

the reason the embed didnt work was because you had put in the url and not the actual embed code

what he shows as far as obdii info is easily aquired by any number of scanner softwares hymee, scan guage 2 the elm stuff, efi dude, cobb etc etc etc it was an issue getting to it 5 years ago but not now

oh and he even mentions using the ELM stuff

clearly this is not a april fools. his links in his geek my ride blog all check out

talking to engine management with PHP http://jon.oxer.com.au/blog/id/291

linux.conf.au http://lca2009.linux.org.au/

the web browser Ap http://www.sopods.com/fullscreen.php

etc etc

I came to this thread expecting to see someone driving an RX-8 around an autocross circuit with an RC remote.

I am leaving disappointed.

LOL. :lol:
Good day to start new thread.
Obviously, this is not a joke.

Thanks for more input. :)

I'm pretty sure this would not disappointed you. :)

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^^^
Thats much better. The ipwnd Rx8 didn't float my boat.

Anyone watch the DARPA challenges?

fake

he didn't let the car fully warm up before shutting off! it's flooded

LOL that was awesome! F1 cars sound so bad ass!!