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The bass from Android's audio analyser drives the glow and brightens the carving on the beat, only while the style is on screen. Yellow and green and the embers keep their meaning; without a signal, as with the radio, the light stays as it was. Levels only. Tried on the emulator. Not tried on the car. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LhzAVaUyqcw5PkGjz4mWW6
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Markdown
271 lines
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Markdown
# Overview styles
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The Overview can look twenty ways: pick one under **Settings → Overview style**. Every style shows
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the same readings (battery, range, power, speed, gear, usage, trip, climate, odometer, time) and
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shows "—" for anything the car did not answer, never a made-up zero.
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Each style has two screenshots: with the navigation, and in the Overview's own full screen (the
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button beside the MG4 logo; swipe in from the left edge to come back). They come from the test
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emulator at the car's resolution with **sample values** (87 km/h in D, 76 %, 18.4 kW), since the
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emulator has no car; on the car the values are live.
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**Colours.** Most styles are drawn in the accent colour you pick from the MG4 paints (Settings →
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Accent colour; shown here in Dynamic Red). Retro, Terminal, Grid (with or without the map) and Visor can also show their original
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colours, and Sci-fi, Cartoon, Nixie tubes, Time circuits, Quest, Empire, Día de Muertos and Halloween always do; while one of those is shown, the whole app
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(navigation, buttons, switches) takes on its colours too.
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| Style | Look | Colours |
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| [Tiles](#tiles) | the app's own cards | accent |
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| [Gauges](#gauges) | analogue needles | accent |
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| [Cockpit](#cockpit) | segment rings, power trace | accent |
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| [Retro](#retro) | 80s fluorescent display | original or accent |
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| [Futuristic](#futuristic) | holographic HUD, energy flow | accent |
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| [Sci-fi](#sci-fi) | starship console | own |
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| [Cartoon](#cartoon) | comic panels | own |
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| [MG](#mg) | octagonal MG dials | accent |
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| [Minimal](#minimal) | one big number | accent |
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| [Terminal](#terminal) | green-screen shell | original or accent |
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| [Nixie tubes](#nixie-tubes) | glowing glass tubes | own |
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| [Chronograph](#chronograph) | a watch face | accent |
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| [Grid](#grid) | neon lines on a glowing grid floor | original or accent |
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| [Grid with map](#grid-with-map) | the Grid, with the real roads round the car on its floor | original or accent |
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| [Time circuits](#time-circuits) | a time machine's LED displays | own |
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| [Quest](#quest) | a fantasy game's interface | own |
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| [Visor](#visor) | a soldier's helmet display | original or accent |
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| [Empire](#empire) | a strategy game's interface | own |
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| [Día de Muertos](#día-de-muertos) | an ofrenda with papel picado and a calavera | own |
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| [Halloween](#halloween) | a jack-o'-lantern on a graveyard hill | own |
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## Tiles
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The app's original look, from the design it was forked from: glass cards on OLED black, one tile
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per value, with the averages over the last five minutes and since the start, vehicle info (with
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the lease allowance) and the tyre pressures on a little top view of the car. The most
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information on one screen.
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## Gauges
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Three round instruments with needles, like a classic analogue dashboard: power on the left,
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speed in the middle, charge on the right (E to F), and a strip below with gear, climate, time,
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usage and a small battery. The needles glide to new values instead of jumping.
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## Cockpit
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After the digital clusters of modern EVs: rings of lit segments for battery, power and usage.
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The power ring in the middle is centred on zero (regeneration lights up anticlockwise in green)
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and carries the speed and gear inside it; along the bottom, a strip with the power of the last
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two minutes.
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## Retro
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An 80s digital dashboard: a vacuum fluorescent display behind smoked glass, as in the
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digital-instrument cars of that decade. Slanted seven-segment digits with the unlit segments
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faintly visible, bar graphs for charge and power, amber labels and a lit P R N D. In its original
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turquoise (shown) or in the accent colour.
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## Futuristic
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A holographic head-up display in hairlines: the battery as a capsule on the left, the speed in a
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ring of dashes that turns with it on the right, and between them an energy channel in which
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particles flow from the battery to the wheels while driving, and back in green while
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regenerating, faster with more power.
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## Sci-fi
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A starship console, after the look of the computer screens in 90s science-fiction TV: rounded
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"elbow" frames in orange and lilac, pill-shaped labels, condensed capitals and blocky bar graphs
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on black. Below 20 % charge the frames turn red: red alert. The app takes on the lilac of the
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lower frame.
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## Cartoon
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Comic panels in flat colours with thick ink outlines on a night-blue page: a battery with a face
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(happy, unsure, then worried and sweating as it empties), a chunky speedometer whose needle
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wobbles into place, and the "zap-o-meter" for power with a sound word: PURR, VROOM, ZOOM! or
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RECHARGE! while regenerating.
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## MG
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After the classic MG dashboards, whose dials sat in octagonal bezels: three octagonal dials with
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chrome rims and cream scales (battery, speed, power), needles in the accent colour, and a line of
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odometer, trip, usage, climate and time separated by small octagons.
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## Minimal
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One number and almost nothing else: the speed, very large and thin, the gear above it, power as a
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short line growing from the centre, and the battery as a hairline along the bottom edge. For calm
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driving.
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## Terminal
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As if a shell printed the car's state: `watch -n 0.2 vehicle-status` on a green-phosphor screen
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with faint scan lines, each value on a row with an ASCII bar, the gear as `[D]`, and a prompt with
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a blinking cursor. A low battery turns its row amber. In green (shown) or in the accent colour.
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## Nixie tubes
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The glow of nixie tubes, the neon number displays of 50s to 70s lab instruments: orange digits in
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glass tubes, the unlit numerals faintly behind the lit one, on a dark walnut panel with brass name
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plates. Speed, gear and battery on top; power, range, usage and the time below.
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## Chronograph
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A watch face, after a chronograph wristwatch: a deep-blue dial with a steel bezel carrying the
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speed scale, the long main hand for the speed, sub-dials for battery, power and usage, and the
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gear in a date window. Engraved columns either side carry range, trip, time, climate and
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odometer.
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## Grid
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After the neon world of the Tron films: glowing lines on black and a perspective grid floor that
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runs towards you as fast as you drive. The speed sits large in the middle; the battery is a
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segmented light wall standing on the floor, turning orange when it runs low; power lights up a
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disc whose inner ring turns with it, anticlockwise for regeneration; and the last two minutes of
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power run across the floor as a light-cycle trail that only turns at right angles. In its
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original cyan (shown, and the app turns cyan with it) or in the accent colour — red gives the
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films' other side.
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## Grid with map
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The Grid over a map: the roads round the car from OpenStreetMap (through OpenFreeMap) fill the
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whole screen as light lanes, straight from above and turned with the direction you drive, about
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400 m ahead and 450 m to each side: motorways glow brightest, then main roads, then the smaller
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streets, the far ones fainter, over a ground grid every 50 m that turns and slides with them.
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The speed, the battery wall, the power disc and the clock stand on dark panels over the map. The car is the chevron on the
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floor, and between GPS fixes it runs on with the speed. The roads come through the car's own
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server, which fetches only the map tiles you drive through and keeps them (see the README); the car also keeps
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the last few hundred tiles itself. Without GPS, the server or the roads, the floor says so and
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stays the plain grid. The light-cycle trail makes way for the map here; power stays on the disc.
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Shown with sample values over real roads in central Berlin.
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## Time circuits
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After the time machine in Back to the Future: three rows of LED read-outs in a metal panel,
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labelled with embossed tape. The red row, "DESTINATION", shows where you can still get to — the
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gear as a word (DRV, REV, NTL, PRK), the charge, the range and the usage, with lamps for power and
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regeneration; the green row is the present date and time, as in the film; the amber row, "LAST
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TIME DEPARTED", is when you last shifted out of P. Beside them the speed in large red digits and
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the flux capacitor, whose light runs to its centre with the power and outwards while
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regenerating. At 88 km/h the speed burns white and the flux capacitor flashes. The app turns red
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with it.
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## Quest
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After the interface of a fantasy online game like World of Warcraft, with the car as the player
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character: a portrait with the gear as its level, the battery as the health bar and power as the
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energy bar; a minimap with the clock; the speed in large gold numbers over a cast bar that reads
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"Accelerating", "Regenerating", "Coasting" or, in P, "Resting"; a road-trip quest whose objectives
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are the trip, the usage and the climate; a chat window with system lines; P R N D as action
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buttons, and the odometer as the experience bar, a level per 1000 km. Below 20 % a raid warning
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flashes "Low battery!". The app turns gold with it.
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## Visor
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After the helmet display of a science-fiction shooter like Halo: thin light-blue lines and
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slanted frames on a dark visor. The shield bar on top is the battery, turning red and blinking
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"BATTERY LOW" below 20 %; the ammunition counter is the range, as a number and as rounds, one per
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10 km, with P R N D as the grenade slots under it; the reticle in the middle holds the speed and
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fills with power round it, green and the other way while regenerating; the motion tracker shows
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the last two minutes of power as blips, red while drawing and green while regenerating, and
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sweeps while you drive. The objective lists trip, usage, climate and odometer. In its original
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blue (shown, and the app turns blue with it) or in the accent colour.
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## Empire
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After the interface of a real-time strategy game like Age of Empires: a wooden resource bar on
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top with the battery, range, power and usage, the clock, and the age you have reached by
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odometer — Dark Age, then Feudal from 10,000 km, Castle from 30,000 and Imperial from 60,000. In
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the isometric world below, the car is the selected unit on a road, its health bar the battery,
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while the ground and trees move past as fast as you drive and the speed stands large over the
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land. The carved panel at the bottom has P R N D as command buttons, the unit's portrait and
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stats, and a diamond minimap with the odometer and the way to the next age. Below 20 % it warns
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"Your battery is running low!". The app turns the player's blue with it.
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## Día de Muertos
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After the ofrenda, the altar families in Mexico build to welcome their dead back for a visit: a
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celebration, so bright and warm rather than frightening. The papel picado across the top is the
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battery, one cut-paper flag per 10 %, those not lit hanging dark, turning red with "BATTERY LOW"
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below 20 %. The calavera in the middle, a decorated sugar skull with marigolds (cempasúchil) for
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eyes, has the speed on its forehead; the ring of marigolds round it is the power, clockwise while
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drawing, turquoise and anticlockwise while regenerating. The altar's candles are the range, one
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per 50 km. The path of marigold petals along the bottom, which in the tradition leads the visitors
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home, is the last two minutes of power. On the right the clock in a tin frame, P R N D as small
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marigolds, and trip, usage, climate and odometer on the altar cloth. While you drive the flags
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sway and the flames flicker. The app turns the papel picado's pink with it.
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## Halloween
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A graveyard hill under a full moon. The jack-o'-lantern has the speed cut into its grin, and its
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carving burns candle yellow while drawing and witch-fire green while regenerating; the arch of
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embers over it is the power, from the left while drawing and from the right while regenerating.
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The potion flask is the battery, red with "BATTERY LOW" blinking below 20 %. The tombstone reads
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the range ("here lies … km"), and the bats are the range too, one per 50 km; P R N D are small
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gravestones, the one engaged lit. The moon holds the clock, a sign hanging from a cobweb has trip,
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usage, climate and odometer, and the hill along the bottom is the last two minutes of power. While
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you drive the bats fly, the potion bubbles and the ghost floats (where there is room for it, as on
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this screen). With Bluetooth or CarPlay music playing, the pumpkin's glow swells and its carving
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brightens on the beat; the radio cannot be heard, so it burns as usual then. The app turns the
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pumpkin's orange with it.
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