My Prelude Project Thread
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blimey that looks good - can't wait to see the dash fully installed and booted up 
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Hard drive mounted, all cables plugged in (still need to route the VGA/USB/power cables better)
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Hard drive again - that looks a bit close!
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Lid closed - Eeek! There's about 4mm space on all sides! As tight as a tight thing in Tightsville!
All that's left to do is connect the speaker cables, afix the power connector for the CarPC somewhere out of the way but easily accessible (in case the power needs pulling due to a complete crash!), and connect the remote power wire - then hopefully it will all fire up and work!
Garry
Hard drive mounted, all cables plugged in (still need to route the VGA/USB/power cables better)
Hard drive again - that looks a bit close!
Lid closed - Eeek! There's about 4mm space on all sides! As tight as a tight thing in Tightsville!
All that's left to do is connect the speaker cables, afix the power connector for the CarPC somewhere out of the way but easily accessible (in case the power needs pulling due to a complete crash!), and connect the remote power wire - then hopefully it will all fire up and work!
Garry
The computer runs Windows XP, and i'm running a custom-built front end application, which has a custom database, and uses Winamp as a back end for music playback, and Window Media Player as a back end for video playback.
GPS back end is Microsoft MapPoint, and Destinator 3, depending on which option I decide to use at the time! I've also custom-built a 3d aerial photography viewer, which can use cached data, but it breaks the terms amd conditions of the data provider, so that's why i'm keeping in to myself!
Internet access is available through my K800i on a T-Mobile Web'n'Walk package, which can be used for general browsing, email access, or aerial photography data if I don't I don't have the current area cached!
Garry
GPS back end is Microsoft MapPoint, and Destinator 3, depending on which option I decide to use at the time! I've also custom-built a 3d aerial photography viewer, which can use cached data, but it breaks the terms amd conditions of the data provider, so that's why i'm keeping in to myself!
Internet access is available through my K800i on a T-Mobile Web'n'Walk package, which can be used for general browsing, email access, or aerial photography data if I don't I don't have the current area cached!
Garry
Not much progress to show in picture form tonight, but I have now got everything wired up, and the CarPC works! 
The ribbon cable for the top screen is damaged, however, so it's not displaying properly
It takes it's pick between stripy lines, a completely white screen, or not displaying any one of the 3 main colours!
So I've only got 1 working screen at the moment
Only other main thing I've done is to put a little bit of foam around the frame that the lid sits down on to stop a little bit of vibration until I cover it properly.
Garry
The ribbon cable for the top screen is damaged, however, so it's not displaying properly
It takes it's pick between stripy lines, a completely white screen, or not displaying any one of the 3 main colours!So I've only got 1 working screen at the moment
Only other main thing I've done is to put a little bit of foam around the frame that the lid sits down on to stop a little bit of vibration until I cover it properly.
Garry
