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Originally Posted by InternetIsForPorn
While it was _cool_, I found it totally pointless after couple of days. What's the point of capturing video from my cams? What's the point of storing all GPS data? Watching TV-shows in my car while driving? Please.
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I go for regular country drives. This initially started as a simpler GPS tracker project but the "bargain" $99 GPS+GSM+GPRS device I bought turned out to need a $700 software license to even program it. I figured I may as well just do it with normal PC hardware and add some extra things while I was at it.
The cameras are for a couple of things... firstly, so I can review any footage from a specific location or region I've been through. There is a business reason for this. Secondly, closer to home/civilisation I can capture the stupid things that other drivers do and post it to youtube or something.
Since it has 250GB of storage I'll probably also use it as a roving backup, perhaps even using it to ferry (important) data between the home office and anywhere I visit regularly.
So there are some good reasons for setting it up, but yeah, a large part of that is geek value.
