Merapi on the Tesla – Yeah, that Tesla
April 30th, 2009 by ryanstewart
This is really cool. Tesla is using Merapi and Adobe AIR for their cool, new user interface. If you check out the TechCrunch article you’ll see the new car comes with a 17 inch touch screen and it has 3G or wireless access. It ties into services like Google Maps and Pandora which means it’s a perfect candidate for AIR since you can get both Flash and HTML.
Merapi is what glues it all together. Using Merapi they were able to expose all of the hardware of the car to the UI layer. Congrats to Adam, Dave, and the rest of the Roundarch team. This is a really cool project and I’m glad Merapi has such a high profile deployment.
Posted in Adobe AIR
April 30th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Hopefully this is the beginning of something new. It mixes my two favorite things. “it’ll be configurable” Wonder if the source or API’s will be open. Would love the chance to work on one of these.
April 30th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Maybe this will be another sign to Adobe that developers should be allowed to sign their applications and have access to native API’s.
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Gee… with all due respect, I sure hope the vital controls aren’t Flash based.
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:35 pm
//hilarious april fools joke
var today:Date=new Date();
if (today.getMonth()-1==4 && today.getDay()==1) {
Car.getInstance().start();
Car.getInstance().velocity=120;
Car.getInstance().brakes.disable();
}