Long live the Gadget Show

[Arbmatic]

I sort of nicked some of these ideas from an old edition of the gadget show but thought you all might be interested with this kit I put together today ad played around with.

 

Basically it is a pc and wireless router plugged into the 12v in a car and hidden under the passenger seat. The wireless router is conected to a dual function 3G/wireless receiver depending on what signal you can get, and the whole thing is controlled by a 12 inch touch screen or a 7 inch windows tablet that you can hide away as well. The pc has a GPS dongle so you know where the car is and there is also a screen projector that projects a display onto your wind screen.

 

With the system you can call up google streetview and project the trees onto your windscreen so you know exactly which tree you are looking at on your GIS by looking out of the windscreen and matching the cg view with what is out there, it looks realy cool. But also you can use your car a geo reference point to your tablet while you are out and about. So if you cant get a good sat signal you can still get a good positioning. Not only that, you get unlimited disk space because you can send your data straight back to a pc. This is all a fraction of the cost of an expensive GPS system.

 

Also been looking at qr coding assets including trees.

 

Enjoy

[Arbmatic]

Just to let you know I just had confirmation that I am getting a hover drone that I can attach a video camera to for aerial inspections, it's over £10,000 so I need to get a grip on how it works first but when I get some video of trees I will post it. It is supposed to be for buildings etc not for trees, before anyone asks. Now I wonder if it would pick up a chainsaw:hmmmm:

Enjoy

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Long live The Gadget Show indeed! Pollyanna Woodward is the saviour or tight clothes on TV at the moment

[corylus]

 

Basically it is a pc and wireless router plugged into the 12v in a car and hidden under the passenger seat. The wireless router is conected to a dual function 3G/wireless receiver depending on what signal you can get, and the whole thing is controlled by a 12 inch touch screen or a 7 inch windows tablet that you can hide away as well. The pc has a GPS dongle so you know where the car is and there is also a screen projector that projects a display onto your wind screen.

 

With the system you can call up google streetview and project the trees onto your windscreen so you know exactly which tree you are looking at on your GIS by looking out of the windscreen and matching the cg view with what is out there, it looks realy cool. But also you can use your car a geo reference point to your tablet while you are out and about. So if you cant get a good sat signal you can still get a good positioning. Not only that, you get unlimited disk space because you can send your data straight back to a pc. This is all a fraction of the cost of an expensive GPS system.

 

Also been looking at qr coding assets including trees.

 

Enjoy

 

:confused1:He speaks in tongues:confused1:

[Andy Collins]

Sounds interesting, would love to see some pics of it in action though

[Aspen@AAOIL]

talking about the gadget show, did anyone see it last night when they broke the record for the worlds fastest powertool driven vehicle?

 

got excited when i spotted they were running on our Aspen 2 fuel!

[hazzygawa]

i sort of nicked some of these ideas from an old edition of the gadget show but thought you all might be interested with this kit i put together today ad played around with.

 

Basically it is a pc and wireless router plugged into the 12v in a car and hidden under the passenger seat. The wireless router is conected to a dual function 3g/wireless receiver depending on what signal you can get, and the whole thing is controlled by a 12 inch touch screen or a 7 inch windows tablet that you can hide away as well. The pc has a gps dongle so you know where the car is and there is also a screen projector that projects a display onto your wind screen.

 

With the system you can call up google streetview and project the trees onto your windscreen so you know exactly which tree you are looking at on your gis by looking out of the windscreen and matching the cg view with what is out there, it looks realy cool. But also you can use your car a geo reference point to your tablet while you are out and about. So if you cant get a good sat signal you can still get a good positioning. Not only that, you get unlimited disk space because you can send your data straight back to a pc. This is all a fraction of the cost of an expensive gps system.

 

Also been looking at qr coding assets including trees.

 

Enjoy

 

hmmmmmmmmmm.

[Arbmatic]

talking about the gadget show, did anyone see it last night when they broke the record for the worlds fastest powertool driven vehicle?

 

got excited when i spotted they were running on our Aspen 2 fuel!

 

 

Nice one! Don't try it at home though!

[Arbmatic]

Sounds interesting, would love to see some pics of it in action though

 

The computer tracking system is developmental and may see the light of day some time in the near future, but you can set one up yourself (without the screen projector) if you know how to plug cables and install software. It is pretty straight forward and if you have a mobile phone dongle and a wifi adapter at home you just need to power adapters, which cost about £50 from Maplins (cheaper online)

 

The drone is just a bit of fun and I'll get some pictures once I can figure out how to fly the darn thing.