Smoothie-ware

[robstah]

I've been playing with this beauty for a bit in hopes to use it in multiple projects, one being a media center streaming box that plays 1080p (simple start, I know):

http://www.andahammer.com/t1-nanopc/

Like others are saying on here, I want as much horsepower as I can get for the money. Just the ability for higher precision and advanced prediction will easily make things better, even when converting to mechanical behavior.

I used to argue with folks when they would tell me that a 1980's Bosch Motronic ECU was plenty capable of handling a car. I would show them an F1 ECU with 4 200mhz processors packed into about the same space as their 80's outdated 8051 ECU. Hell, even nowadays, tuning between an OBD1 Bosch ECU on a 90s BMW 3 series and the later OBD2 Siemens ECU saw improvement in multiple categories, even though the Siemens had a lot more to do on the emissions side of things. Now, ECUs are powerful enough to use fuzzy logic instead of constantly referencing tables all the time.

Like I said, I am all for more ponies behind the wheel.

[626Pilot]

I used to argue with folks when they would tell me that a 1980's Bosch Motronic ECU was plenty capable of handling a car. I would show them an F1 ECU with 4 200mhz processors packed into about the same space as their 80's outdated 8051 ECU. Hell, even nowadays, tuning between an OBD1 Bosch ECU on a 90s BMW 3 series and the later OBD2 Siemens ECU saw improvement in multiple categories, even though the Siemens had a lot more to do on the emissions side of things. Now, ECUs are powerful enough to use fuzzy logic instead of constantly referencing tables all the time.

I theorize car people think about cars with the same circuitry they use to think about politics and religion. So, good luck.

[robstah]

I theorize car people think about cars with the same circuitry they use to think about politics and religion. So, good luck.

The fact that there are EFI to carb/dizzy kits out there defines the market perfectly.

[int2str]

Hell, even nowadays, tuning between an OBD1 Bosch ECU on a 90s BMW 3 series and the later OBD2 Siemens ECU saw improvement in multiple categories, even though the Siemens had a lot more to do on the emissions side of things. Now, ECUs are powerful enough to use fuzzy logic instead of constantly referencing tables all the time.

In BMW Club Racing circles the (rare) ODB1 E36 M3s are very sought after and many people even do an ODB2->ODB1 swap because the ODB1 cars are quicker