I'm a huge fan of commuter services, and that definitely includes Chicago's Metra. So when I heard that Atlas was releasing Metra Nippon Sharyo gallery cars in HO scale, I had to get my hands on some.

Take one IpaQ running WinCE, on a strongARM processor, with built in microphone.<P>Add a dash of MS eMbedded Visual Tools (eVB and eC++), a hefty dose of Ars Software Colloquium advice and simmer for ...