carputer

[pitslayer]

its done.


running roadrunner at the moment till i can get centrafuse up and going, the shuffle option on roadrunner, is the 2 curved arrows, press it twice.

[pitslayer]

right well i have finally discovered teh benefits of a car pc. some inconsiderate people decided to have an accident on the way to work yesterday, which closed of the main drag into work and the police ever so orsumly redirected rushhour traffic through a small town,instead of down the opposite carrieageway....so after 15 mins, i started to watch top gear

[phosty]

How about some photo's of your install?

[Turbo_Steve]

Can't find that!? Hmm..maybe it's a skin problem.

[pitslayer]

short lived, went around a corner to quick and ripped a wire out of the laptop, and i dont know where it goes

[pitslayer]

yes i will load up some pics and a quick howto, but i have no pc at the moment

[pitslayer]

lol i forgot about updating this, will take some pics this weekend and update you all. all is going well so far with it

[pitslayer]

Right thought i would update this as its now all happy and working.
what i used or you will need
7" touch screen monitor, or monitor of your choice
CD player with line in
Carnetix controller
PC base unit, wether it be laptop or a specifically made car pc
Large battery cable, i slightly over specced probably using gauge 0 wire
spare fuse box
length of 7 core trailer cable
VGA montior extension cable(quite tricky to find)
3.5mm jack cable which is really long(maplins)
USB extension cable(expensive, also maplins)
soldering iron with solder and heat shrink
Swear jar quite small
alot of patience

[n13l pm]

Swear jar
alot of patience

should be at the top of this list!

[orionn2o]

Whats a Carnetix controller?

[pitslayer]

its a little box with lots of wires which does stuff.

lol.
its an on off controller, basically you wire it up to your ignition live, when you turn your ignition on, the carnetix turns on and fires up the car pc, but it has a voltage regulator on it, so you dont overload it when you start the car.
and when you turn the ignition off, it provides power to the laptop to able it to go into hibernate, and not just switch it straight off.
it also has a voltage reader, so when your battery gets to like 10volts for example, it will shut the pc off, so it doesnt drain the battery

a must have for a car pc

[orionn2o]

ah ok, sounds quite good. I was gonna do that with a microcontroller... suppose it depends on how much time i wanna devote to this project!