This gives me so many ideas with a mix of the computer and a good wireless card.Pimptastic wrote:GPS, voice control, wireless internet, webcams (reversing cams), computer controled (glass) windows, DVD burning...the list is pretty endless.
Keep the computer on at all times, running a hidden web cam. Whenever the car is started, start recording and sending it to a server in your work/home. Anyone tries to break in, not only do you have GPS running, showing you where the car is, but you have plenty of potential photographs (and different angles) of the thief.
Not only this, but you could implement a program I only wish I had the programming expertise to write, because I'm sure it'd be pretty successful.
A background process that monitors wireless connectivity (strength) as well as distance and strength of other WAPs in the area. Automatically connects to a new WAP when the connection level gets to be more like x% (20% difference in strengths for example).
It'd be nice, but I have no idea on how to interact with wireless cards using either Java or C++ (the only system languages I know proficiently).