Take a tour of the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds in the WRENCHMOBILE.
August 5, 2006
Take a tour of the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds in THE WRENCHMOBILE.
Take a tour of the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds in THE WRENCHMOBILE
The WRENCHMOBILE is a GMC pickup that has a lot of electronics packed into it.
1. A Hewlett Packard Pavillion Slimline desktop computer serves as the heart of the system. This is a very small computer with a lot of capabilities.
2. The WRENCHMOBILE has a dash mounted 15″ flatscreen monitor.
3. The WRENCHMOBILE has a 7″ in dash monitor as well.
4. The WRENCHMOBILE has a Garmin GPS windshield mounted mapping system with voice driving directions.
5. The WRENCHMOBIE has a Coleman 3000 watt power inverter to provide 110 volt AC current to power the instrumentation and computer.
6. The WRENCHMOBILE has a dash mounted stereo system.
7. The WRENCHMOBILE has a 10 KW Porter Cable diesel generator to power the vehicle’s electronics when the vehicle is parked. It also has a Schumaker battery charger that is capable of starting the truck immediately even if all the batteries are dead.
8. The WRENCHMOBILE has a rack of 16 75 Ampere Hour AGM batteries each the size of a regular car battery. AGM batteries are much like gel cells but are much heavier.
9. The WRENCHMOBILE connects to the internet using a Motorola V-600 cellphone as a modem providing speeds of up to 115K per second. It uses T-Mobil as it’s ISP provider.
10. The WRENCHMOBILE is equipped with a Logitech webcam.
11. The WRENCHMOBILE is equipped as a full wifi access point using a Linksys wireless router which is also connected to the Motorola V-600 cellphone to give internet access.
12. The WRENCHMOBILE also has an internal wifi card so that it can connect to other wifi networks such as is available at many hotels, motels, restaurants, truck stops and anyplace providing pubic access wifi.
13. The WRENCHMOBILE is equipped with two different burglar alarm systems and will call the police and it’s owner via cellphone.
14. The WRENCHMOBILE is equipped with a long range bluetooth system.
15. The WRENCHMOBILE uses a Wilson cellular antenna system with a cellular linear amplifier that will allow it to communicate with a cellphone tower at distances of up to about 65 miles.
16. The WRENCHMOBILE has a vcr-dvd player system and can record either VHS or DVD as well as play them.
17. The WRENCHMOBILE has a serrius satellite radio system.
18. The WRENCHMOBILE has a Cobra SSB citizens band radio with a 1000 watt linear
amplifier.
19. The WRENCHMOBILE has a small FM broadcast band transmitter and can transmit on any one of several FM frequencies.
20. The WRENCHMOBILE uses SKYPE and is also on Yahoo Messeger as Creditwrenchtruck.
