Hi, intrested in trying to put a comp in my car! Mainly for music purpose (at the moment i have an aux in, in the back of my head unit, but that involves looking down at my mp3 player down by the gear stick, which isnt too good when driving!), with maybe a motorized touch screen display. Has anyone got any tips of building one/experince? Have had a quick browse on the net and found some kits but thought they were a bit expensive so wondering about trying to build one myself. But not sure about a few things e.g.what would use for a PSU? Could i use the parts from my laptop?
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Was thinking if it was just a touch screen then have something like itunes/winamp up then easier to just change tracks etc and larger database aswell.
Someone at our uni's fragsoc has one is his car (what inspired me!), might ask him for details too!
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i think easyrider has a big thread in the motors section of when he done one have a look in there
Hi There,
I have a car PC in my car (be it not working at the moment)
For the front end I use a program called centrafuse, great stable program. I manaed to get a UK map for the sat nav version so got it for free
The bluetooth phone is a bit buggy and cant get it to work 100%, but could have been my last system.
I have a touch screen that I have smoothed into the radio space (Mondeo ST24), and will be upgrading to a MATX Atom board with 1gb ram. Id reccomend a touch screen as it makes it so much easier.
As for operating systems XP would be fine. There is a shop that sells M2-ATX PSU that could connect up, this allows the pc to boot up when you start the car up, I have mine set on sleep when the car is turned off to make quicker boot times.
I have a phono to jack from the pc into a amp for sound.
I say budget about £200 for it. Pretty easy to fit, just takes time and patience!
I have a car PC in my car (be it not working at the moment)
For the front end I use a program called centrafuse, great stable program. I manaed to get a UK map for the sat nav version so got it for free
The bluetooth phone is a bit buggy and cant get it to work 100%, but could have been my last system.I have a touch screen that I have smoothed into the radio space (Mondeo ST24), and will be upgrading to a MATX Atom board with 1gb ram. Id reccomend a touch screen as it makes it so much easier.
As for operating systems XP would be fine. There is a shop that sells M2-ATX PSU that could connect up, this allows the pc to boot up when you start the car up, I have mine set on sleep when the car is turned off to make quicker boot times.
I have a phono to jack from the pc into a amp for sound.
I say budget about £200 for it. Pretty easy to fit, just takes time and patience!