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Showing posts with label Interior Mods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interior Mods. Show all posts

Saturday, January 23, 2010

CarPC Video

I made this video a while ago deomonstrating Centrafuse 2.0 with iGuidance embedded:




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Monday, November 23, 2009

mimo 7 inch USB touchscreen




My New mimo 7 inch touchscreen monitor that I opened up and put inside my RX8 flipup navigation screen. Took me about an hour, fitment was perfect. This screen is fully usb powered that means plug and play and no cigarette lighter needed or any other wiring.











Sunday, March 22, 2009

Building the CarPC

My uses for in car computing
Music/Videos
On-board Diagnostics
GPS
On screen gauges, intake temp, rpm, mph, engine load, and more

Specs:

PicoITX Motherboard with Via 1ghz processor embedded
1gb ram
80gb hdd
USB Navigation
OBDII
Bluetooth




It took me a while to fit the pico-itx board into this case with the wires packed on the inside. Installing it into the car was probably the most complicated because I took out the center console to run the the positive wire into the carpc's power supply (M3-ATX Smart automotive power supply). I grounded it to the bose amp in the back and as for the ACC wire, I tapped it into the ciagarette lighter in front underneath the cd player.

























The pico-itx enclosure fits nicely in this little compartment: