carputer

[pitslayer]

my 7" touchscreen arrived this morning, so just spent 2 hours or so getting it work, why cant they make instructions that are short and to the point. plug this into that, that in that, this into your pc, job done.
i now have a working touch screen monitor, running the laptop downstairs, and my 360.
will have to take some pictures of the build, when i eventually get it all sorted

[Mark 4]

he he

[rees]

cool , i ve bought a 10" touch screen in prep for mine , itll involve removing the climate control but all thats to come , how are you finding MU's vr4?

[AncientOfMu]

He isnt yet.

And it isnt Mu's Vr4 its Pitslayers VR4 .

[n13l pm]

looking forward to the icpc projects lads..

[pitslayer]

like said i havnt got it yet, stupid government r, and even though its my car now, it will still always be Mus old VR4

i will be trial fitting everything in my galant, if i get it back


rees i went for the 7" as its a straight fit in, and i dont loose the climate control, be cool though as we can share hints and tips for when we build them

[Zaid]

i will be trial fitting everything in my galant, if i get it back

Who has taken her from you?!

[pitslayer]

garage in for gearbox repair, which has taken 5 months, and not getting any closer to being done

[Zaid]

garage in for gearbox repair, which has taken 5 months, and not getting any closer to being done

I found these people in Cardiff when I had problems with my BMW. They are helpful and charge very reasonable prices.
http://www.svscardiff.co.uk/reconditioning_services.htm

[Nick Mann]

So what do you guys in the know think of these:

http://stores.ebay.com/The-Mobile-Co...QQftidZ2QQtZkm

[White Lightning]

So what do you guys in the know think of these:

http://stores.ebay.com/The-Mobile-Co...QQftidZ2QQtZkm

That looks pretty cool ...

How would you go about connecting one of those up to the speakers in the car? I guess you have to connect the audio output on the PC up to an amp?

[n13l pm]

That looks pretty cool ...

How would you go about connecting one of those up to the speakers in the car? I guess you have to connect the audio output on the PC up to an amp?

Yep. I have a soundcard with outputs for front, rear and sub, I connected these to the amps using a 3 x jack to phono cables (via a line driver in my case).

[Mark 4]

Nick, I'd be interested if you want to set up a group buy. Good to have the input from people about what to buy as well. Computers are not my strong point

[Nutter_John]

www.linitx.com are a uk supplier of thattype of kit , maybe easier

[rees]

like said i havnt got it yet, stupid government r, and even though its my car now, it will still always be Mus old VR4

i will be trial fitting everything in my galant, if i get it back


rees i went for the 7" as its a straight fit in, and i dont loose the climate control, be cool though as we can share hints and tips for when we build them

yeah i know what ya mean about the 7 " as for the climate control ill just have to move it to below , but yeah ave subscribed to this thread so keep us posted

[rees]

www.linitx.com are a uk supplier of thattype of kit , maybe easier

cheers john that site will be frequented

[n13l pm]

www.linitx.com are a uk supplier of thattype of kit , maybe easier

I used www.Linitx.com to buy a lot of my bits, other sites I used www.kustompcs.co.uk & www.itx-warehouse.co.uk

[pitslayer]

its just as cheap to make your own car pc, all you really need is a screen, a laptop, and an on off switch really.

there is a couple of ways of doing it, the way im opting to go, is i run a cd player with a line in, so theres no chopping and splicing into the wiring loom. get laptop in, run wires to screen, get screen working, run output to the line in on the cd player, and then its wired for sound. its simple, and effective

as for the lilliput stuff, my mate has been runnning a lilliput screen in his FTO for over a year now, with no issues, and thats what i have bought. he said that everyone is saying, they are cheap and work really well, so he got one, and as he has had no issues, i bought one.


zaid cheers for that i will give them a ring tomorow, the car is worth 1500 quid tops, and its had 4k spent on it now(enough to buy my VR4 r) still battling those god damn bum snackers up in birmingham, about the wrong gearboxes they have sent me, i want my money back having to go through the credit card to get it back, and im still stuck with the bill, for removal and attempted fitting of the wrong gearbox they have supplied me...twice!

[pitslayer]

had the screen now for about a week, and i think ive got it setup, its a bit of a wierd set up, stupid engrish manual so if anyone wants to know how to get it to work, i can help.
so i have had the touch screen working on the laptop downstairs and so far im pretty impressed, however im slightly unimpressed with the cooling on it, it gets rather warm, and in such a little space(double din) i think i will be putting an extra fan in behind, which will just be a normal pc fan as they are already 12 volts.

next job is getting an intelligent power supply with on and off capabilitys and i will be using the carnetix p1900
http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10728

next all i will be needing is a lump of 7 core and about 12 metres of vga cable

[n13l pm]

Glad to see some movement on the icpc front.

Just a quick one, I know the power supply will power the laptop every time you switch on the car but how are you going to turn on the laptop?

I guess the location of laptop would answer that also what about a reboot switch? I found a cut off to the power very handy (say your driving long distance and for what ever reason the computer crashes you will need to restart it without switching the car off..).