I've found a DIN sized flip out 7" touchscreen that i want to use, the rest i haven't come across. Any links to where i can buy a ready made system? I'm not one for building my own pc's so damned if i'm gonna attempt building a car one, i may be able to plug in USB devices tho :D
Chet I still got some shit hanging about from my old carpc, touch screen out of the box mounted on a audi bezel, I got gps reciever, invertor, you name it
Mini ATX motherboards fix exactly inside a DIN slot, but you'll probably need a double din to get the heatsink in, unless you rig a water cooler onto your car radiator! Im thinking of stripping the standard radio out, but leaving the front in tact. I can then replace the cd player with a push-in pc cd/dvd reader, and using the existing buttons as the buttons for the pc etc. This way my stereo still looks standard to theifs!
That screen is bloody expensive btw. You can buy 15" TFTs for £90! Touchscreens are'nt a great deal more. You might as well do it properly. Ive seen ceiling mounted 8" flip down ones for £200 cant remember where now :s
Some USB ideas: Bluetooth - park your car outside your house and wirelessly transfer all your data! WiFi - drive past hotspots and hax the unfirewalled folke Webcams - mount them in your bumpers front and rear and watch the video live on your screen! also - wireless keyboards. wires are gay
At a blistering 500kb/s? It's pretty dull waiting for MP3s and Videos to transfer at that speed. I'd reccomend going WiFi for data transfer. Bluetooth's fine for mobile handsfree though.
If you are going to spend that much just on the screen why not just get an in dash DVD/MP3/Sat nav system then? Ok it's going to cost more than an in car PC but car audio direct sell the AVIC for £1,179.00 that plays MP3s, DVDs, dose sat nav and has a built in G-meter.
waste of money, what next mate? under car neons and gay glittery paint? (scrub that last one actually, think you been there) what happened to shitty R19's william blocks and turbo's? :)
Woah there ! 90-100 degree coolant will toast your CPU in a very short space of time - the magic smoke tends to escape around the 80c mark...
If I were doing it, I wouldn't use a touchscreen. I'd get either a trackball, and mount it under a panel with the ball sticking through a hole (so all you could see was the ball) or I'd use a touchpad like
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again mounted so it just looked like part of the car.
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