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Originally Posted by streaker69
Maybe I'm missing the coolness of this, but what's the point? You're overlaying stumbled data onto a video stream you're recording from your dash, why? I just don't seem to get it, maybe it's because zippers are wicked.
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Zippers? Please explain... and it's cool to me because I don't have a GPS and am pretty darn cheap, so I picked up a Creative Instant Webcam (USB) that someone was gonna get rid of (they cost about $20 anyways, $10 on sale...) and decided I'd use it to record my drive. Sorry if it's not as cool to others, but I think it's a pretty decent GPS alternative ^_^ I'll go on a drive when it's light out (I finally got this working tonight ~11:30 PM), and do it again, then throw up a more complete stumble. Thanks for checking out the vid though, ignore the stupid dancing - I needed 20 seconds of vid XD
Oh, almost forgot... I also like the ability to show people just what stumbling is like. If I'm with some friends, we can have fun with the webcam (goofy faces and whatnot) in the car while stumbling, and you can actually _show_ people what it's like. Plus you can have fun with nifty effects XD Numbers and data are great, but I think this is a fun way to stumble.
Oh, and one more thing - there's a flaw in the way I did the timing, since I kinda cluged it together, and that is that if you start running it _before_ midnight, and you're still running it _after_ midnight, the system will get all messed up. This is because for the timing I used the vbscript "Timer" function, which basically returns how many seconds (to the tenth's place) it's been since midnight. Yes... so if anyone else is so inclined to run this (who am I kiddin', right? XD), don't start before midnight and end after midnight... unless you stop it before midnight and then start it up again right after midnight. Yes... :-P