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Merapi on the Tesla – Yeah, that Tesla

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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.

Live GPS Data with Merapi and Adobe AIR

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One of the coolest demos from 360|Flex was watching Jordan Snyder hook up Merapi and Adobe AIR and use an AIR application to control a remote controlled car. It did a great job of showing off the cool stuff you can do if you let AIR connect to devices and native code. Unfortunately we don’t have that functionality in the runtime. But the Merapi Project creates a bridge between AIR and Java so you can do some very cool stuff.

Andrew Powell just blogged about another cool Merapi example that lets him connect directly to a GPS device and grab the data then plot it on a map. I’d love to be able to do that natively with AIR, so he got my imagination running wild. Very cool stuff, Andrew.