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I installed a computer into my car last month and I'm glad to be rid of the CD binder finally. There's still some things to touch up but here it is.

As I was installing everything on the bench.


The way I had it mounted before I bolted it to the trunk.




That little thing sticking out is the GPS receiver.














Isn't it a beaut?


The front end I have running on top of Windows is called Roadrunner and the skin I'm using is Steel Blues. Both can be found at www.mp3car.com. But I don't need to use Windows at all, everything is built into the frontend with all touchscreen capability. Even the volume......but sometimes out of habit, I find myself turning the fan ***** to change the volume!

Loading screen.


Menu


Here's how you choose albums.


Here's what the playlist looks like. It uses Winamp on the backend.


EVIC for all OBD interface.


Equalizer


Choosing a saved destination with the GPS. Of course you can put in destinations on the fly as well.






Smaller navigation window if you still want to see the eye candy.


And the full screen view if you need to really see where you're going. It also changes colours for nighttime view.


Touchscreen interface for creating notes.


On screen keyboard for entering webpage URL.


Bluetooth connectivity with my Blackberry.


Radar


Radio


Weather


Full weather details.


I don't have the Wi-Fi working yet so all the weather shots were stolen from another guy's thread. And the GPS screenshot is his too, although I do have GPS working now. Just didn't take a screenshot before I mounted it into the car.

+REP BITCHES!

 
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thats awesome. hopefully i can do that one day too

 
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What does your set-up consist of? Looks great only thing is the screen looks a little off center though..

 
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Ya, I have to pull the screen out and put it in its final resting point. But I just had lasik and don't want to be in the dusty garage for a few days. I'll repost pictures when I do that.
The setup is a mini-ITX motherboard, it's real small and uses little power. It's powered by a 90 watt DC-DC smart power supply. It takes power directly from the battery, no inverter needed, and it also starts and shuts down with the ignition so I don't have a power button. And hard drive is a 2.5 inch 80 gig laptop hard drive, and 512 megabytes of Kingston DDR RAM. That's about it. A few extended VGA and USB cables, a Xenarc 7 inch touchscreen, and a Holux 213 GPS receiver. And I also installed about 200 feet of wiring.

 
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nice

 
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looks nice how much did it cost u ??
tuch screen?

 
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nice man, i'm gonna do that someday. how much did it cost you to complete the project??

 
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It is touch screen and the final cost was $1459.89.

*EDIT - That's Canadian dollars.

 
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damn dude still nice setup.......wish i had this in my then wat i hve in my car and close price........
P5700 with VDP cost about 1050 and no navi

so can i do anything like this with my P5700? it dont hve VGA output tho

 
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ur touch screen cost $1459??? wtf. Mine is like $250. Im runnig 1 gb ram, 200 gb hd, SP13000 mini itx mobo, m2-atx psu, Linksys wifi, garmin gps, 1 touch screen, 6 LCD rca in, 1 15'' VGA monitor. Bluetooth as well

 
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You need the VGA output. Just prior to installing this setup, I bought a $1200 Panasonic 7001 flip out DVD player. I was pretty pissed to find out I had to turn around and sell it. But the touchscreen won't integrate with the computer and the resolution would be horrible, don't even try it. So I spent another $450 on this screen and the other one is still sitting on the floor in my bedroom. But it was worth it, I hate having to change CD. I have 2000 songs, including every one of my CD on this computer.
So if you were going to start a project like this, you'd probably have to start from scratch dude.

Ampie Case
M10000 mainboard
512 megabytes Kingston DDR RAM
80 gig Toshiba 5400 RPM hard drive
M1-ATX PSU
Holux 213 GPS receiver
200 feet of wiring
MTX 4244 amplifier
Xenarc 7 inch touchscreen
3 USB extension cables
VGA extension cable

 
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do you need to hook up a dvd player to play dvds?

 
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I would need to, but instead, I just put the DVD on my hard drive.

 
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looks good

 
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Very nice. I'll go ahead and give you the rep.

Look at that. Took you from 2 red to 1. Ain't I the greatest!

 
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nice man, very nice. repped

look i made him green!! mwuhaha behold my power.

 
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Red? What's that? Does that mean someone negative repped me? Why? I haven't done anything bad on here.

 
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Nice setup.... that looks sweet as hell to use!


NOW DUST OFF YOUR DASH!!! GOOD LORD

 
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haha I have Armour All wipes just for that, just had to wait until I put my dash back together. I sitll don't have some pieces on. I even do the door sills, it'll be squeaky clean when I'm done.

 
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Ya you had enough negative rep to get you the 2 blocks. Go into you user cp and down where it says how much rep you have, you can press the arrow and it will show the passed so many reps you got. Or you can buy the thing to see who repped you so you can get some payback.

 
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very nice

 
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ooo, i've never seen a magnesium mettallic with hubcaps before
...lol

 
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haha NICE! Most of the reps were from this thread. http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/sh...ight=hate+cops

2 positive, 2 neutral, 2 negative

 
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bump