Carpc (Pics and vid inside)

[thejoker989 10+ year member]

I'm finnaly done putting my pc in.

1999 Grand am

7" vga touchscreen molded into factory radio cutout.

100 gb laptop hard drive

intel dual core processor

usb gps recevier

1 gb ddr2

The computer is in the glove box, right next to the blower for maximum cooling. The screen went into a 1 1/2 din slot, so cutting and molding was necessary. Two buttons at the top were relocated and a groove around the bezel was filled in.

Computer is running Windows XP, Roadrunner front end, Iguidance navigation, and winamp for the music.

On with the pics (sorry for bad quality):

Lines around the screen are perfectly straight, but something about the video playing and my camera makes them look curved.

Main menu screen

Main music playing screen with visualization

Browsing music on the hard drive. Very responsive, no delay at all like ipod interfaces.

Main Navigation Screen

Music playing screen with navigation screen embedded. Looks a lot like the eclipse with the tomtom built in.

Game screen

Final Shot

Video:



Sorry for the bad video quality, it was off a cell phone.

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[xtremez 10+ year member]

thats freaking sweet man. ive been wanting to put a pc in my truck for awhile there. where did you get your mother board n stuff from?

 

[thejoker989 10+ year member]

newegg for the mobo, processor, and ram.

ebay for the gps and power supply.

And I bought the screen off a coworker.

The power supply actually isnt the standard ac to dc power supply because that would require an inverter, I used a dc to dc regulator since cars and computers both operate on 12 volts and figured it to be inneffecient to convert dc to ac and then back to dc.

 

[inapontiac 10+ year member]

DAMNNNNN! Nice Grand Am. I was going to put a monitor in there with a separate dvd player but mount it into the dash. Now you have me thinking a lil bit differently.

 

[thejoker989 10+ year member]

DAMNNNNN! Nice Grand Am. I was going to put a monitor in there with a separate dvd player but mount it into the dash. Now you have me thinking a lil bit differently.

Heres some shots of the dash fabrication to give you an idea.

Thats the front bezel of the lcd mounted in so the rear housing (containing all the guts) can just screw on //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

do you prefer rr to streetdeck

 

[thejoker989 10+ year member]

do you prefer rr to streetdeck

Wish I could tell you, but I'm still a noob. This is all I've used. So far don't have any gripes with rr, and the skin selection is good enough for me.

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

About how much did you spend total on that. I'd love to do it.

And do you still have a functional cd player?

I'm a car pc noob.

 

[big_mofo 10+ year member]

Nice

an..............

Katt Williams FTMFW!!!!!!!!!!! funniest dude in the world..

 

[spoonraker 10+ year member]

About how much did you spend total on that. I'd love to do it.
And do you still have a functional cd player?

I'm a car pc noob.

You can spend as much or as little as you want really. I've seen $500 setups and others well into the thousands. I think for a great amount of features and solid equipment, every single wire, screw, can of paint, etc. included you're going to spend about $1000.

And about the functional CD player, you can do it any way you want. Some people keep a regular HU in their dash, and just route the computer sound through the aux input, other people completely eliminate their HU and run the PC directly to an amp(s). If you go the second route then you just need to put a CD-ROM drive on the computer.

 

[thejoker989 10+ year member]

Still working on finding a slim usb cd/dvd-rom drive, but already have a spot where im gonna put it. Im at about $700, and probably 20 - 30 hrs.

Katt Williams > All

 

[Megalomaniac 5,000+ posts]

awesome! carputers can get very addicting //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

also i wish you had bought an xenarc instead of that lilli //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[spoonraker 10+ year member]

Nothing wrong with Lilliput. Unless you absolutely need transreflictive....although in his case he probably does given that the monitor has absolutely no cover.

 

[Megalomaniac 5,000+ posts]

Nothing wrong with Lilliput. Unless you absolutely need transreflictive....although in his case he probably does given that the monitor has absolutely no cover.

I went through 2 lilliputs, quality isnt the same. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

edit: the xenarcs are transreflective?

 

[tapout 5,000+ posts]

nice and clean.