This is sort of an expansion on my ideas from a post in the General forum.

My idea is for future empeg car models to do away with the various inputs and outputs that are not plain audio - e.g. the radio in, the serial port, even the 10baseT - and replace them with a common bus. Something that's designed for high-speed serial transmission between peered devices; something that's easy to connect; something that's got standards behind it.

Call it ThingNet. empeg could supply the radio module and a RS232 interface as ThingNet modules. Third parties could add GPS devices, niftusoidal controllers and so on, because ThingNet would be a IEEE or ISO standard. empeg could even bring out a separate dockable hard drive module, so instead of ripping open your case to add more space, you simply put a(nother) hard drive module on the ThingNet chain. When you want to update it, you just connect the empeg to the external disk via the ThingNet cable supplied...

Makes things much simpler.

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