Idea for program?

[chococrazy]

Well since our moguls can do so much including -find speed cameras show speed limit gps webcam modem (universal remote kinda) and alot more i was thinking bout something since 2 days ago 2 radar detectors got stolen from my dads mercedes and my moms surbervan (we think our lawnmowers did it) so i thought hey why not turn our mogul into a radar detector or am i just crazy i have no programming experience (tried to make a hello world app and failed....)
so i might need some help

[gorby911]

Well since our moguls can do so much including -find speed cameras show speed limit gps webcam modem (universal remote kinda) and alot more i was thinking bout something since 2 days ago 2 radar detectors got stolen from my dads mercedes and my moms surbervan (we think our lawnmowers did it) so i thought hey why not turn our mogul into a radar detector or am i just crazy i have no programming experience (tried to make a hello world app and failed....)
so i might need some help
For something like this, software is not sufficient. Appropriate hardware is also required. Same like GPS - slapping a GPS program is not enough, an actual GPS hardware must be present. Luckily, Mogul has GPS built in. But it does not have any radar sensors. So writing a program will not help without having the hardware required.

[rleejr79]

I have an Escort Passport. I just received a mailing about their newest radar that you can upgrade the speed cameras and red light cameras to. Though I am sure there is no way for a titan to function as a radar detector, there may be a way for someone to create a program using GPS and the location of stationary lasers and cameras.

Good idea. Though I live in a town of 14000 and the abode speed detection devices will not see my area in my lifetime, could be useful in traveling to bigger cities as traditional radar detectors don't have the ability to detect red light and speed cameras.

[chococrazy]

there already is a program that tells you when your approching the speed limit or a speed camera so im just crazY?

[coffey_joshua]

why do you need a radar detector? just buy a car they can't catch you in. ;-) vrooom vrooom

[rleejr79]

Follow Up: Search "Radar" in titles only


I saw a Hermes thread where Tom Tom 7 lists the permanent speed cameras I spoke of above.

[rleejr79]

there already is a program that tells you when your approching the speed limit or a speed camera so im just crazY?

What program? Are you talking about Tom Tom?

[mhmogul]

Well since our moguls can do so much including -find speed cameras show speed limit gps webcam modem (universal remote kinda) and alot more i was thinking bout something since 2 days ago 2 radar detectors got stolen from my dads mercedes and my moms surbervan (we think our lawnmowers did it) so i thought hey why not turn our mogul into a radar detector or am i just crazy i have no programming experience (tried to make a hello world app and failed....)
so i might need some help

Wow, how many lawnmowers do you have? More importantly, what kind of Lawnmowers do you have, Transformers? I can tell you this, my Toro would NEVER have gotten away with stealing my radar detector! Actually, my Toro recently went missing. Perhaps I should place my radar detector square in front of one of the xenon headlights, crank up the HIGH beams, and demand that it tell me where my lawnmower went!

[chococrazy]

well my dad runs 2 car body shops so we have 3 cars in the back 2 of em classics and 1 of em a mercedes we go to church in the door was apparently open mysteriously and our radar detector was gone same in surburvan we have lik 6 ppl that come to mow our lawns and it happneded the same day they where here in the moring.. and the program that tells you when your near a speed camera is called speedsentry http://www.smartphonejunkie.com/showthread.php?t=167174&highlight=speed+sentry