I'll never be able to do even a portion of what you have going on, but it does give me the energy to attemp a lot of new things I've never done before.
what kinda coin am I looking at to do a CarPC?
on a sidenote..... a recently got a pretty good laptop for free.... so I do have one for the truck down the road...
it'll be a year at least till I get to that phase 2 stuff, if not 2 years.. I'll prolly get 2 more years from the 350...
heck, if I get laid off, maybe 3...
Motherboard is an Intel ITX with an Atom processor (1.6 ghz single core - no need for dual). But what I'm excited about is the thing to the right, a solid state 32gb hard drive - boot up times should be a lot faster than a mechanical hard drive! Cant wait to boot!I'll try setting up and installing Xubuntu for Tunix testing maybe tomorrow.
The motherboard/processor combo cost about $65.
Hey Ryoken, awesome build, as usual. Just a thought, I had a stereo with LCD display in a center console. It was VERY hard to read due to sunlight coming in at angles. Other times it was just fine. Again, it's just a thought.
Your build is a HUGE encouragement to me!
Can't wait to see this thing drive out of the garage!!
I know who I'll be PMing when I need to get hardcore on the research on Megasquirt...
Awesome build!
I can't post the pic because I've been doing to much lurking and not enough posting but it was midway down page 94. I am going to try to do something similar with the cage support tied to the frame with a bushing and am trying to figure out the easiest way to do a bushing setup similar to this. Should I just cut and weld tubes from scratch? is there anyone that makes some sort of fabricators set? and what bushings? Cost vs. time. I can fab it all myself but if I could find these that I could just cut to length for my app I'd save a ton of time. Oh yeah and I'm definatly subscribed, keep up the great work!
, if you wanted to use that 12" LCD, then you should look for a way to isolate it from vibration. Even the best automotive can't take much abuse, and our trucks are definitely more abusive than the average vehicle on the market these days. Just an FYI. I would hate to see you spend $600 and then have it break after a couple wheeling trips, and I realize it is down the road a bit.
You know, old man
As for a power supply, there was one shown in the communications thread that was $100 and is a direct 12v supply so you don't have to have an inverter or anything else for power supply than the stock system.
As always, just trying to give you some ideas for the future, now get to work, then get home and start working on this truck again.
I'm gonna go crazy staring at a big blank spot in the console waiting to do this project....
need to work on acquiring one of those... 
rough launch week! eh, lets see what I can get done..
not bad at $200...
, though it is a little easier to work through the pain when you're working on TOYS!! Makes me think back to the days of smoking and drinking. Quit the drinking about 3 yrs ago, mostly out of survival issues, I was a HUGE overindulger. Don't miss the smoke in the eyes and nose, or the ashes everywhere, though. I don't think I could afford to smoke anymore. I quit the first time when they went up to a buck a pack. Made it 7 1/2 years. Started again during my divorce, quit when I was doing the $9.98 3-pack special for Marb reds in a box...daily! Now it's been almost 11 years. Thanks God!!!!
when I had my heart attack, I quit for 8 months, had it beat.. need to work up a pair and do it... I'd like to have the rockers done this weekend... anxious to move on...
