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 15 Apr 2008, 11:44 AM
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 FYA  Posts: 939 Joined: 30th January, 2006 From: Central Coast Car(s): 1996 R33 GTST Real Name: FYA Trader Rating : 4  |
There are quite a few places in Australia, USA and UK that you can get complete computer systems specifically for cars...
A Complete ready made system works out cheaper and easier at the end of the day, but you can save money by building and sourcing parts yourself but not that much and that is a heap to do to catch up to the specifically made car pc systems out there, in built everything... http://www.incarcomputers.com.au http://www.in-carpc.co.uk http://www.gizmosis.com.au/ http://www.mini-box.com - complete bare bones systems including internal car specific power supplies http://www.downtown.com.au/hpc1013.htm http://carcpu.com/ http://www.xenarc.com/product/index-pc.html http://www.cappuccinopc.com/ - just mini pc cases and systems http://www.cartft.com/ - Car Computer Parts & software - A system builder matrix - Best layout and most complete systems... -------------------- |
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15 Apr 2008, 06:32 PM
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Rank: RB20DET Posts: 74 Joined: 14th November, 2005 Real Name: Chris Trader Rating : 0 |
And don't forget IMO the best CarPC resource, www.mp3car.com
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15 Apr 2008, 06:58 PM
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 Jaded   Posts: 8,363 Joined: 27th September, 2005 From: Sydney Car(s): R33 / 2010 Golf GTI Real Name: Jon Trader Rating : 7 |
+1 ^^^^ mp3car has a great forum
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15 Apr 2008, 07:54 PM
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 Rank: RB25DE Posts: 349 Joined: 10th January, 2006 Trader Rating : 1 |
yay this thread is alive again!
Hydie, may i ask what you are using for GPS if you are! Cheers |
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15 Apr 2008, 07:58 PM
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Rank: RB25DE Posts: 349 Joined: 10th January, 2006 Trader Rating : 1 |
And also a quick question on monitors.
Has anyone found a good place, bar ebay, to source 7" touchscreen lcds, be it lilliputs, xenarcs or others! Thanks |
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15 Apr 2008, 09:15 PM
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 Rank: RB25DET Posts: 956 Joined: 23rd May, 2005 From: Adelaide Car(s): R33 GTS-T Trader Rating : 2 |
QUOTE(Dragonforce @ 15 Apr 2008, 07:28 PM)  And also a quick question on monitors. Has anyone found a good place, bar ebay, to source 7" touchscreen lcds, be it lilliputs, xenarcs or others! Thanks I got mine from pandainnovations.com, i think they were a bit cheaper than other online stores. |
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15 Apr 2008, 09:38 PM
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Rank: RB20DET Posts: 74 Joined: 14th November, 2005 Real Name: Chris Trader Rating : 0 |
QUOTE(Dragonforce @ 15 Apr 2008, 07:54 PM) yay this thread is alive again! Hydie, may i ask what you are using for GPS if you are! Cheers QUOTE(Dragonforce @ 15 Apr 2008, 07:58 PM) And also a quick question on monitors. Has anyone found a good place, bar ebay, to source 7" touchscreen lcds, be it lilliputs, xenarcs or others! Thanks Haven't even tried GPS yet, but will be using either iGuidence4, or MapMonkey. MapMonkey is apperently easier to integrate with RoadRunner, the frontend that i'm using. Up-to date Australian maps will be the largest hurdle im expecting. As for LCD's, I highly recommend Vastute.com or Mobile Computing Solutions. Both usually have sales on eBay, which is where i got my Lilliput through Vastute for $269 delivered.  I have been in contact with MCS, they are an international company, BUT, they have got a sales person in Australia, so you can email them and ask for his details, which in turn, im sure you could get it cheaper without paying some of postage costs from the USA. |
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16 Apr 2008, 04:57 PM
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Rank: RB25DET Posts: 956 Joined: 23rd May, 2005 From: Adelaide Car(s): R33 GTS-T Trader Rating : 2 |
QUOTE(hydie @ 15 Apr 2008, 09:08 PM) Haven't even tried GPS yet, but will be using either iGuidence4, or MapMonkey. MapMonkey is apperently easier to integrate with RoadRunner, the frontend that i'm using. Up-to date Australian maps will be the largest hurdle im expecting. I'm running RoadRunner with MapMonkey... give me a hoy if you need Australian maps.  |
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16 Apr 2008, 06:37 PM
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Rank: RB20DET Posts: 74 Joined: 14th November, 2005 Real Name: Chris Trader Rating : 0 |
QUOTE(Trav33 @ 16 Apr 2008, 04:57 PM) I'm running RoadRunner with MapMonkey... give me a hoy if you need Australian maps. Ahoy. PM Sent.  |
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25 Apr 2008, 08:22 AM
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 Rank: RB25DET Posts: 643 Joined: 14th March, 2008 Car(s): R33 GTS25t Real Name: Alex Trader Rating : 1 |
pics dont work mate
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20 Jan 2010, 01:23 PM
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 Rank: RB20E Posts: 2 Joined: 29th April, 2008 From: Canada Car(s): R32 GTS-T IMPUL Trader Rating : 0 |
Apologies for bumping an old thread, but the images were still on the server, I just had to edit all the BBcode. Since I did all that work, its going up here for future reference.
QUOTE (parish @ 12 Jun 2006, 01:13 AM) Hey hey, Started this project a little while ago, and now that its done thought I'd put some pictures up... Basically I originally wanted sat nav in the car, but when having a look at the prices I kinda thought that it was a bit much just for sat nav, and I checked out what other possibilities there were… GPS usb receivers  … I then decided that I’d just get a computer in the car and that could run everything, as in sat nav, music and whatever else (if there would be anything else)… Used the MP3Car forums heaps to get a good idea of how others had done it and designed my own little PC… Hardware: Via EPIA Mini ITX Motherboard (1.3Ghz) M2ATX power unit 1Gb Ram 80Gb SATA Hard Drive USB GPS Receiver 7” Touch Screen Software: Windows Xp RoadRunner FreeDrive Winamp Started off with the screen… I bought another dash surround so that I wouldn’t have to drive my car around for weeks/months without a dash  … 7" Touch Screen 1 7" Touch Screen 2 7" Touch Screen 3Took the screen apart so I could mould the front of it to the dash and once finished I could screw the rest of the screen straight to the dash, the idea was that I wanted it to look like one piece, and that the same time there is no way you could steal unless you broke the screen… For it to fit nicely under the climate control I had to cut part of the dash at the bottom, also has to take a couple mm off each side.  Dash 1 Dash 2 Dash 3 Dash 4Once I got it fitting nicely in the dash I used Araldite to glue it in and the used putty to bog up the sides and sand it back to make it look like one piece.  Dash 5 Dash 6This came out pretty good, so I put it in for painting…  Painted Dash 1 Painted Dash 2When I got the dash back, I popped the screen back into it and with the moving/playing around with the dash over the next couple days the front of the screen that was glued to the dash cracked and eventually with a little bit of force it came apart completely. Took some advise from someone in Bunnings and got it plastic welded to the dash… this time before I puttied it all up and made it look good again a gave it some severe testing to make sure it wouldn’t crack again (sorry no pics of this part…) While the dash was getting re-painted I started to build the case. I wanted to build it in aluminium, but cost and putting it all together (or bending it) just put me off using it… I used persplex instead I wasn’t too sure where I wanted to have the case, couple of options… in the boot, under the seat behind the screen (in the dash)… Decided to go with fitting it under the seat, so I made a model of the case and had it under the seat until I realised that every time I went over a bump I could feel the case, so scraped that and decided to put it in the dash… Took the dash apart and again made a model of what I wanted it to be like and made sure everything fit nicely then made the case…  Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Case 4Note that its actually sitting the other way around now, can see this in a later pic… At some point in time while I was making the PC I got the dash back…  Final dashWhen I was happy that everything was going to fit nicely I finished the case and installed all the software on the machine… tested everything to make sure it would work. As I had the dash back and I’d put it all together I was running it on the 7” screen to see what it would give…  Case 5 Case 6 Case 7 Case 8 7" powered off car pcFinally got to the stage when it was all ready to go in… spent a good couple hours messing around with it all to get it to fit like I wanted… (very tight fit J) cables everywhere in the pic but was nice and neat once it was all in…  mess!Put the dash back in and bingo…  Final setup 1 Final setup 2Pics aren’t the greatest and the glove box still on in on the pic… once I have given the interior a good clean might take a final pic and post it… At the moment ironing out a few little issue… the main one is sound… playing only MP3s on the hard drive (have 2 USB ports so this is how I add music etc when needed)… the prob with MP3s are the recording levels they are recorded at.. some songs sound awesome, others sound like c#@p! just trying to find some other 3rd party software that will regulate the output of the sound… but yeah… apart from that everything is working sweet… |
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5 Feb 2010, 07:02 PM
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Rank: RB25DE Posts: 349 Joined: 10th January, 2006 Trader Rating : 1 |
DarKcyde ur a champ for making those pics work again, Cheers mate they helped me heaps during my install!
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10 Feb 2010, 04:53 PM
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 Rank: RB20DET Posts: 93 Joined: 31st October, 2009 From: Sydney Car(s): R33 gtst Real Name: Chris Trader Rating : 0 Garage: gts25t |
wow
-------------------- You almost had me? You never had me - you never had your car...
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11 Feb 2010, 09:21 PM
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 Rank: RB25DET  Posts: 941 Joined: 3rd July, 2003 From: Ipswich Car(s): S2 Stagea RS4 Real Name: Curtis Trader Rating : 5 Garage: Stagea S2 RS4 |
anyone got win7 working on a itx board? when you go to install mine just freaked out and had to exit
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12 Feb 2010, 12:13 PM
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Rank: RB25DE Posts: 238 Joined: 31st August, 2009 From: Wooroloo- perth Car(s): R33 GTS-T Real Name: Curtis Trader Rating : 0 |
I got win 7 on my incar pc, its doing good atm, might run into trouble because microsoft blows, haha
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13 Feb 2010, 06:21 PM
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Jaded Posts: 8,363 Joined: 27th September, 2005 From: Sydney Car(s): R33 / 2010 Golf GTI Real Name: Jon Trader Rating : 7 |
QUOTE (Curtis.Cow @ 12 Feb 2010, 01:13 PM) I got win 7 on my incar pc, its doing good atm, might run into trouble because microsoft blows, haha A very cut down, basic version of Win XP is all you need. I dont understand the point in putting a newer OS in there. It's not like you're connecting to the internet, or using any of the advanced functionality of Win7. WinXP is a hell of a lot faster, more hardware and software works with WinXP anyway.. Only legitimate reason I can think of is Vista & Win7 handle hibernate/resume a bit better and dont mind being run for 6 months without a full reboot, but thats it..? Any other reasons why you're putting Win7 on there? |
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19 Feb 2010, 12:23 PM
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Rank: RB25DE Posts: 238 Joined: 31st August, 2009 From: Wooroloo- perth Car(s): R33 GTS-T Real Name: Curtis Trader Rating : 0 |
its my compatiable with the mouse volume scroller i have, and the touch screen is more responsive with windows 7, the boot times and stuff isnt that different anyways cos i got such a high powered computer in there... i use to for internet purposes aswell so 7 is best for what i use it for
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