Subject: Moving map
From: Paul
Date: 9/2/2000, 2:29 PM


Perry Casson wrote:

snips...

All of you interested in the LED display project should take a look at the
Compaq Ipaq pocket PC.  Excellent direct sunlight readable display winCE
device and for you purist you can even run linux on it
http://www.handheld.org

Plug a GPS into the serial port and turn our PIC project into a USB AtoD
device and we have could have one heck of a system.  For a look at one
moving map program for this hardware go to
http://www.controlvision.com/map.htm

Perry Casson

Bulent Aliev wrote:

If you want to go "all the way", SiTex is selling a small radar dome that plugs
directly in to a USB port and can super impose the radar image on to the moving
map display.
Bulent

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