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Old Jan 29, 2005 | 07:35 PM
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WHATS THE CHANCE OF GETTING A POCKET PC TO MONITOR ALL THE THINGS GOING ON IN YOUR CAR I.E ALL TEMPS. BOOST LAMDA INPUT .ETC ETC ETC SURLEY ONE OF THESE DEVICES CAN DO ALL OF THIS IF SO HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK IT WOULD COST
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Old Jan 29, 2005 | 07:37 PM
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I am sure there was a program for one of the hand held Nintendo's floating about that was going to read the engine perameters
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Old Jan 29, 2005 | 07:49 PM
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As long as you can get the data from the ECU and interperate it it's quite simple.

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Old Jan 29, 2005 | 08:22 PM
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I am currently writing some software for a full digital display and dtaalogging for the S8, for myself like....so aint official or anything.....

What car are you planning to use it on, if its a new car, theres a few OBD2 readersd about for PocketPC
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Old Jan 29, 2005 | 08:28 PM
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its on an old 2wd cos so their aint too many inputs
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Old Jan 29, 2005 | 08:31 PM
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You'd need to build a device to do it.........ie, read all the signals, convert them to digital, then sent that via serial/bluetooth to the PDA, and have some software interpret/display that
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