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Forums > Skills & Gear > Navigation
Subject: Good uses for an older IPAQ PDA?

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Todd Eliason
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02/24/2009 11:18 AM Alert 

I have an older IPAQ PDA that I am seeing if anyone has ideas on how I can/should use it.  I have a Garmin CF GPS for it.  It has Bluetooth and Wifi.

Any applications folks are using that you'd recommend, or anything I should repurpose it for?

Thanks for the ideas and experience.

Todd

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Craig Miller
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02/24/2009 11:24 AM Alert 
Build a robot and use it as the brains?

I have a US Robotics Palm 500... that's what I keep it for.


More seriously though Todd.. from a vehicle standpoint there is some OBDII reader software out there for the iPaq and a there is a scantool compatible bluetooth OBDII dongle to use with it. I know your RRC doesn't have OBDII, but it's still a useful tool to have around the shop.

Britt has some iPaq topo navigation software that he sometimes uses. Destinator is decent street network routing software that you can use to get turn by turn directions to the opera house.

Craig
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Ben Bailey



02/24/2009 11:41 AM Alert 
I could use it as a brain.........



I'm using one of my old iPods for backup storage, but it is a full 20GB. You might use it for storing things you really need to keep, but they don't take a lot of memory.

Also, I don't know if this will work for this type of thing. But a lot of people are using thumb drives now to run stand alone windows apps, or to have an entire operating system on the drive to run from 3rd party computers when they are on the road.
RBBailey
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Andy Hough



02/25/2009 10:37 AM Alert 
I think I have the same iPaq. Mine also has bluetooth and wifi, and I was going to add the CF>GPS dongle to it if I could find some good software to run on it. The search for software hasn't been going well.... :(

I think the iPaq will get turned into a remote control for my media center PC in the living room.

However I just got my hands on a sweet HP 1100 tablet PC, so now I am going to use that for the truck. Bigger screen and I can run Craig's Overland Navi software on it with a basic USB GPS unit. I saw a waterproof one on Amazon for $40 that looks great.
DD: 2009 Chevy HHR 1LT
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