Driving My PSP Around - News from Deniska

Heres the news we missed a few days ago from Deniska:

http://deniska.dcemu.co.uk/bin/drivin.jpg

A little update on my GPS/Mapviewer project..

It is slowly shaping up in to something useful...
I did the first "field testing" of the mapviewer's gps option tonite. The link below points to a small video clip, captured with my casio camera. It is a bit shacky, but it is hard to drive and focus the camera at the same time ;-)

http://deniska.dcemu.co.uk/bin/Drivin_with_PSP.wmv
Here is another video - in a daylight.
http://deniska.dcemu.co.uk/bin/driving_with_PSP2.wmv
I changed the cursor for directional arrow for gps mode... I guess to make it really cool I need to turn the map and not the center arrow ;-)


I still need to patch a number of bugs and build some content before a public release. So please be patient ;-)

PS: PM if you are interested in helping to beta-test the viewer and build content for it (POI, custom maps, tutorials, documentation, etc). I need people who actually built and tested gps link, described in the thread below

Respond to his excellent project at his DCEmu Hosted Site Here --> http://deniska.dcemu.co.uk/

Whats with the jungle music :confused:

Awsome news man,this might be a project for me in the future.I wonder if we can use something similar to this to connect to the internet over a cell phone?

This is really amazing and great for the PSP Scene, perhaps homebrew is not as bad as sony think, they didnt think of this and look how brilliant it may become, great work Deniska

that is pretty amazing. but how does it work? through internet or what?

I'm just guessing, but I'm fairly certain he downloaded the maps and xml data beforehand, then the GPS centers where you are on the map.

It's really quite cool. However, even the average homebrew user won't be doing the kind of hardware mod necessary for this to work.

I really like the idea, though. I could have used it today when I tried to take a shortcut which led me to the middle of nowhere. :)

how did you get the psp to recognize the gps hardware through the headphone jack?

i think he mod the hardware a bit for it to work so its not something anybody can just use right away though.nonetheless it looks cool.

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30035 here is how he did it. it is on his dcemu page

Keep it up deniska it looks great.

This is very cool and looks promising. Nice to see a good use of the serial port, hardware hacks like this are always impressive!

Are custom maps necessary? Can commercial maps be also used?

this was slow to deach front page news on decemu the video links don't work they download only 60kb of the files:eek:

MMm anyway you could use the maps off M$ autoroute ???.Great work shaping up niceley.

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Originally Posted by NoQuarter

Awsome news man,this might be a project for me in the future.I wonder if we can use something similar to this to connect to the internet over a cell phone?

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I think that would be a pain in the butt to do since the PSP isn't designed to accept incoming internet connections anywhere but it's wifi. Probably would require a firmware hack or a custom browser that could use the connection.

This is so cool! :D I am utterly impressed by it! (not the music though!) :rolleyes:

well. i would be intrested to help builing this for german citys.

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this looks absolutely great!! Brilliant work! I've been hoping some how someone could get a tomtom style gps thing going on the psp. With its big screen it would be perfect!

Keep it up! :D

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OMG this is sooo tight, nice catchy tune on ur radio on the second vid. ~_^

thats awesome, i hope its released before i get my car. and to the guy who first replied THATS NOT JUNGLE MUSIC AHHHHHHH, ROMPE!! ROMPE!! lol j/k

hi i just saw ur connection from the other page u made b4 this one and i want to ask pin 1 (GND) and pin 3 (TXD) are the only 2 things i need to connect to the controller to the PSP from the gps system???? if u can, can u post of a better pic of everything u do thank you.

about that cel phone thing, meybe you could hook up a wireless router to the cel, i have no idea how to do that but itd be sweet