TTmoto

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TTmoto
A simple speed display for the TomTom.
Properties
Developer:	Adam Bunter
Version:	1.01 (20091018)
Architecture:	any
Language:	X11-Basic
Comment:	It is written in X11-Basic, therefore it needs this to be installed.
Dependencies
Requires:	TTconsole, X11-Basic
See also: Software

TTmoto is a simple application that displays your current speed in large text across the top half of the screen, making it easy to read whilst riding a motorcycle.

"But your honour, I did not know it was an unmarked police car! I only accelerated because I saw what I thought was just another boy racer in his wrx approaching at speed. I just wanted to get out of his way as quickly as possible." I pleaded.

"So are you saying that it is the police officer caused you to speed?" the judge enquired.

Well... but I realised that this was a loaded question, so I conceeded that it was indeed my fault and to my relief the judge did not revoke my license.

However the huge fine and loss of points means I have to now be anal about keeping to the speed limit. The Australian authorities have gone ballistic on speeding offenses - it is a revenue raising scheme sold to the public as a solution to our growing road toll, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_enforcement_in_Australia.

My place of work is over 100kms away and I can ride over 1000km a week on my little honda cbr600. My motorcycle has custom sprockets on at the moment which cause the speedometer to read approx 30kms above what it should. So I thought it would be great if I could use the tom tom and purchased a small magnetic tank bag which has a front plastic sleeve that fits the gps unit perfectly. Unfortunatley, I could not find a way to display the speed reading large enough to be easily readable.

After a quick google I came across this site, downloaded some of the awesome work done by others and hacked together TTmoto. It's only a very simple program but does the job for my needs. Hopefully someone else may also find it useful.

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Download

The package: TTmoto-1.01-bin.zip

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Install

Unpack the package (zip file) and move the contents to your tomtom Directory just as they are. Thats it. The icon for TTmoto should appear in the setting menu.

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