| I have been talking with Matt of Nistune and he is a real nice guy. I told him about my software for the Z and he has helped me with the protocol needed to read, write and burn the Nistune boards. He has also added me to the list of Nistune installers on his website where I can be found at the bottom of the page here. [ http://www.nistune.com/workshops.htm ] I have already added the ability to edit the fuel maps, timing maps TP tables and such to my software so now I can actually implement those functions to work with the Nistune boards. Nistune is an easy way to get started tuning your Z. I do recommend that you have a good knowledge of the aspects of tuning before you get started and a good place to start learning is here. [ http://cherrypicker.tripod.com/id10.html ] I've also talked to Devin recently too. He is the one who wrote this ECU Tuning page. He says he's been out of things for quite a while with two new kids and another one on the way. He had to part with his Z due to some severe rust problems he had with it but now he has a very nice R32 GT-R and he is really getting in to that. He sent me a couple of pictures of it and he's doing some nice things with it. I've tried to convince him to post here about what he's been up to but he feels he'll get bashed for posting GTR stuff. I told him that I'm sure everyone would like to see and hear about it anyway. The reason I have not post about my software lately is because of a few things. I few weeks ago I saw the movie "Iron Man". I really liked the way there was much use of voice commands he was using with his high tech stuff. This got me wanting to add something like that to my software. I figured, what the heck. I already had my software talking to me, why not talk to it. I began a really tiring search to add voice commands using the current programming language I was using to create my software. This got real frustrating as development for this function has gone to the newer programming language I had been refusing to convert to over the last few years. I also wanted to add analog gauges to the software. Some people like that a lot. I searched around and again found myself in the same situation. I could only find a few lame looking gauges to use with my now "ever getting outdated" programming language I have been using. With all this pressure on me I finally decided it was time to make that change. I've upgraded my programming software to the new fully functional programming language I've been avoiding and slowly converting everything over. It's turned out to be a big task but hey, guess what? It seems to be worth it. I found a really nice free and highly configurable analog gauge to use. It's very nice looking too. It even looks like it has a glass window over it with reflection. You vary the amount of reflection or remove it all together. Again, it's highly configurable. I also found a lot of info for adding voice recognition to the software. Now you will be able to use my software while your driving and be hands free by telling it what you want it to tell you. Like telling it which sensor to monitor and tell you what the value is at the intervals you've set it to announce. Or you can have the software connected while your diagnosing a problem under the hood and command it to tell you things while your working on the car with dirty hands. I've already started implementing the voice recognition and I think it's pretty neat. If you have Windows Vista you will find that it comes with voice recognition in the control panel. Check it out. It's fun to mess with. It has a real nice walk through feature on setting it up and using it. This I highly recommend. Anyway, I just wanted to share what's been going on. Thanks for reading.
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