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Jabberwocky79 I'm a big proponent of avoiding E-waste when possible, although I don't have the chops to do this kind of stuff. My 2011-built PC is still serving as a backup, and I recently dismantled a 2012 iMac that had outlived its usefulness so I could rob the hard drive and turn it into a portable USB enclosure. I grabbed the memory while I was at it – Anyone have any use for 24GBs of DDR3 SoDIMM? Reply
usertests Jabberwocky79 said: I grabbed the memory while I was at it – Anyone have any use for 24GBs of DDR3 SoDIMM? I don't, but it's probably around $40-60 on the used market: https://www.ebay.com/itm/318255094455 Reply
Notton Watch Audi/Porche add a digital screen shifter stick as an $1000 option. BMW will offer it as a subscription. Reply
salgado18 The driver can find out which gear it's at just by touching the gear lever. I think it is a very nice trinket, but not much useful only for gear changes. However, it does open possibilites for other enhancements. Reply
Dementoss I've been driving for almost 34 years and, I've always driven cars with a manual transmission but, have never felt the need for a display on the gearknob, to tell me what gear I've selected… Reply
edzieba LOL. Instead of a bargain-basement BT OBDII module to read gearbox state directly and transmit to the display host, instead rely on IMU guesstimate which only works as long the the vehicle is never accelerating, braking, cornering, going up or down slopes, or encountering road camber. But what else do you expect from 'vibe coding'? Reply
cyrusfox edzieba said: LOL. Instead of a bargain-basement BT OBDII module to read gearbox state directly and transmit to the display host, instead rely on IMU guesstimate which only works as long the the vehicle is never accelerating, braking, cornering, going up or down slopes, or encountering road camber. But what else do you expect from 'vibe coding'? It wouldn't be terribly hard for it to base its state on a running average of position and use that, with optimized boundaries it would be more than good enough to know its current state. Reply
Jabberwocky79 Dementoss said: I've been driving for almost 34 years and, I've always driven cars with a manual transmission but, have never felt the need for a display on the gearknob, to tell me what gear I've selected… Not everything has to be purely utilitarian. Sometimes people do stuff because it looks cool, not because it's needed. Reply
Pi2539 This is brilliant! Great idea, looks create, and useful! Reply
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