iPad in your ride?

[Marnes2986]

I am a software developer by day and thought of building a cool app but the costs would out way doing it due to the limited market. I had some cool ideas to mount a iphone in a race car to provide realtime tracking and video feed... and also to setup navigation on ipad I even went as far as mocking up the interfaces. It would probably cost 30k to build at my cost.

Bummer, I can see what you mean about the limited market.

Anyways, this might be the poorman option, but does anybody know how I can project the image of my Lowrance 540 to an I-PAD?

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[scottrune007]

I called lowrance about this and they said no bueno. But maybe somebody else has a solution for this?

[Forty1Racing]

Goat, Did you ever get the PM I sent you?
I have some people that can do CAD work for you as well as CNC machine work.

[sredish]

you know, another cool thing we can do with ipad is view the live feed from gopro and contour pov cams, so having the one display in your rig gives you access to music, gps, cam feeds (if you're doing that) and other stuff. the longer the ipad is around more stuff will be developed for it. my main problem is the transferring in and out of tracks / trips. there is an sd card plug for the ipad, has anyone messed with trying to get that to work or is there any transferring of files or is it only for photo / video?

[Mark Newhan]

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[Fiseboy]

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[Fiseboy]

Updates?

[06dak287]

ok heres the lowdown on what im doing for my daily driver weekend runner. unless you already have an ipad....i would go android for this idea. most android tablets have a built in gps chip that doesnt need cell or wifi to work. a rooted android gets all the free gps and topo maps with chartplotting. bluetooth actually works very well with my asus transformer tablet. the plus side to using bluetooth antennas is that you can use your charging port on the tablet...well..to keep it charged on vehicle 12v. for crapple products you need a usb host device. pretty much converts the bottom charging port to a powered usb host port. a simple female usb adapter wont work because it doesnt actually HOST the usb like a computer does. so between the paid apps on ipad (unless jailbroken) and all the adapters and cables to run a hardwired gps ant. your battery will die fast also. and android tabs are cheaper, faster, and work more like computers and dont rely on itunes.

but yea my asus android tab with a bluetooth gps antenna running google maps with all the waypoints saved for offline use. super responsive and i think accurate down to 20m or so. and everything is through google maps. so you can overlay usgs topos and you can drop waypoints on the fly and whenever you get cell or wifi signal it will auto upload to your gmail account. and you can alter and save waypoints at home as well as saving the maps to the sd card.

edit: oh yea. most android tabs have sd card slots

[06dak287]

heres just a super quick video i recorded driving around my neighborhood to show you guys. dont mind the long pauses. multitasking like a mofo haha



video might be processing still....just now uploaded

[Baja Bryan]

What bluetooth gps antenna are you running? Has anyone tried the Pantech Element tablet? It's water proof, could be nice option.