Crazy Eastern European G4 Car Mod
If there was ever a doubt about Eastern European Mac fans, let that shred of uncertainty be squelched. Today on MacMod one of the most amazing car installs of a Mac I have ever witnessed was posted after being translated [from Czech?].
Jiri Jirout first created a custom housing with waterproof-yet-breathable Gore-Tex ports for his 450MHz G4 (codename Sawtooth). The Sawtooth model is near and dear to my heart, I am writing this post off my 400MHz Sawtooth which was upgraded to 2GHz with a Powerlogix CPU. Next, he modded his Eastern European Tatra brand car to include:
An ethernet network
Wifi for hotspots
GPRS to internet for the car in cases where one is too far from Wifi
GPS with a Garmin module and Route 66 mapping software
Custom front end software written in Cocoa for car data
Custom movie player software
Scripts for iTunes so that back seat passengers can listen to different music than in the front
And much more...
The fact that the original article from which this is translated dates from the winter of 2003/2004 makes this mod all the more amazing. Huge props to Jiri Jirout and his crew of microcontroller designing and software writing friends.
