What I belive? Maemo can “transform” products…


We’ve just released Carman, an slick application that turns your maemo device into one Cars lover useful tool. It provides two views, one pyGTK other using Python (pygame) and let you monitor your car’s sensors through OBD-II.

The nice thing is that we gave the user 2 options, the pyGTK is a analysis tool while the Python UI is a fancy made for in car usage onboard computer, that can have several themeable “widgets” and really fit into your car’s look and feel.
maemo carman gtk ui
pyGtk Screenshot

maemo carman rich ui python
The “Tunning” theme for the rich view.

maemo carman rich ui python
The “default” theme for the rich view
So, that’s what I belive. Canola turned the 770 into a real pmp with streaming capabilities and also a real in car system option. Now Carman is also showing that your 770 or n800 can be used as onboard computer. =)

Now the best part, and accidental feature I suggested just after getting to the office and seeing my badge clearly reflected on the wind shield:
Maemo carman reflection mockup

To do this a “big numbers – info ” theme must be done. Don’t need to be inverted the graphics, just press the fullscreen button and pam! I’ve tested this in day and nighlight. Actually day is a lot better then night. The only requirement is to place it in a 90degree angle with the windshield. That can be hard without a mounting device.

Carman in the car!

Some concepts mockup =) Hei teemu I think I used you picture =) ehehe
carman mockup =) carman nokia 770 nokia n800 in the car INDT
Anyone wants to sell some used 770? =)

Ps: this also shows the power of python in this platform =) Come on, stop asking for java and try out python for maemo! Lots of good documents here ,here and ofcourse a camera.py demo here

Marcelo

Permanent Link » · Written on: 02-15-07 · 9 Comments »

9 Responses to “What I belive? Maemo can “transform” products…”

  1. David wrote:

    More info? Where can we get the hardware? Looks really cool.
    David

     February 15th, 2007 at 7:42 am
  2. Etrunko wrote:

    Actually both User Interfaces are written in python. The difference here is the first one is PyGtk (GTK+/Hildon) and the other one uses PyGame (SDL).

     February 15th, 2007 at 8:01 am
  3. Andrew Turner wrote:

    This is very cool stuff. I’ve been thinking about doing this for awhile.

    What OBD-II interface are you using to hook into your 770?

     February 15th, 2007 at 8:26 am
  4. Henri Bergius wrote:

    Cool!

    Now if it only would work with my motorcycle…

     February 15th, 2007 at 8:47 am
  5. atmaspheric | endeavors » Carman for Nokia Tablets! wrote:

    [...] Carman for Maemo looks amazing [...]

     February 15th, 2007 at 8:54 am
  6. Karel Jansens wrote:

    There really isn’t much use in advocating Python, if I can’t install it on my device. Using either the link in the new application catalog, or the installation script on the page on Maemo Planet (link repeated below), I get the same result from the Application Manager From Hell: “libbluetooth1 (>=2.19) is missing, and I’m not going to help you in any way, Stupid User.” (the last part of the message was implied, of course)

    BTW, your link to Sourceforge is a link to Python 2.4, while Carman needs 2.5. This link

    http://pymaemo.garage.maemo.org/

    is more correct, but — as I said — I can’t get Python to install and according to the forums I’m not the only one with this problem.

     February 15th, 2007 at 9:23 am
  7. handful wrote:

    Hei Karel,

    In the opensource community, error happens, and we depend on users’s feedback to fix it. We don’t have a lot of devices to create and recreate all the possible cases, that’s why some cases go wrong.

    I think this kind of “rude” comments is not going to help. It’s easy to complain about free things, and even easier to just not use them.

    But wait =) we are nice guys, if you look here in my blog about canola, when we launched several users couldn’t figure out the same thing that is stoping you with python that is the need of other repositories, and even with that We helped every single one, via gtalk, via email and our software is free! not even on paid software you would have a instant help like we did.

    But wait again : we cannot do it without people asking =)

    So why don’t just send email to the project’s guys?

    Thanks for the correct link =) post fixed

    Br

     February 15th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
  8. Karel Jansens wrote:

    My rude comment was aimed at Application Manager [spit!]. However, thanks to ITT forum contributor “RogerS”, I finally managed to install Python 2.5.

    His tip can be found here:
    http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4754
    with my reply.

    i tried to make a sort of walk-through for other poor souls in my predicament and posted it here:
    http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4739

    The trick is that you have to save the installation file locally first, and (apparently) get rid of any existing bora-extras catalogue before clicking on the local installation file.

    Why Application Manager chooses to honour dependency requests from a local installation file and not from one started from the Net, is beyond me, but I think everyone should agree that it is insanely stupid.

     February 15th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
  9. High Earth Orbit » Blog Archive » links for 2007-02-16 wrote:

    [...] Handful of Nothing » Blog Archive » What I belive? Maemo can “transform” products… We’ve just released Carman, an slick application that turns your maemo device into one Cars lover useful tool. It provides two views, one GTK other using Python (pygame) and let you monitor your car’s sensors through OBD-II. (tags: carputer nokia770 hardware software todo) [...]

     February 16th, 2007 at 6:40 am

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