[rescue] OT: Linux and USB on Intel

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 09:09:48PM -0700, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> --- Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> 
> > One cool car I saw had a computer system hooked up to the GPS, and
> > some data aquisition stuff.
> > 
> > He produced maps of his road trips, complete with temperature and
> > other data along the way.
> 
> A fellow on the Libretto maillist does this every summer on a major
> trip (2 weeks?) on his bicycle...

They do some of this on some bikes in the Dakar Rally in Africa.  Not
sure how much data they gather, and most only have a GPS.

What's amazing though... is the Dakar *before* they had GPS and
computers... 


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