ckolander Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Well my current plan for the stereo system is to either get a touch screen stereo and solid state hard drive and link them together for many many gigs of music in car or to try to figure out how to build a miniature in car pc with a touch screen. At my current skill level both are very daunting tasks and I have no idea where to start, but I have imagination and patience and the ability to get insane deals on electronics. I am hoping that there is an electronic genius here who can either guide me step by step ish or something along those lines. I did try searching but with a couple bazillion results I was overwhelmed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOTHALOSISM Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 check out www.carputer.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FricFrac Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 (edited) Well my current plan for the stereo system is to either get a touch screen stereo and solid state hard drive and link them together for many many gigs of music in car or to t ry to figure out how to build a miniature in car pc with a touch screen. At my current skill level both are very daunting tasks and I have no idea where to start, but I have imagination and patience and the ability to get insane deals on electronics. I am hoping that there is an electronic genius here who can either guide me step by step ish or something along those lines. I did try searching but with a couple bazillion results I was overwhelmed. Easy Peasy.... ok maybe not that easy but it's definately doable. Have you considered getting a Window's Mobile embeded touch screen DVD/GPS/Stereo, etc, etc, etc? That's the road I went down. A carputer is right up my ally (I'm an Electronics Eng and I did custom car audio installs for years) but the simple all-in-one package of a nice double din touch screen is just too easy. You are going to have to build a custom panel for a double din but there is plenty of room assuming you are putting it in your S130. Edited October 15, 2010 by FricFrac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan5138 Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 There is actually a lot of open source support for carputers and mobile entertainment. One of the best OSes i have seen so far is linux ice. I supports movies/dvds, audio, gps and touchscreens. it has a very simple interface as well. http://wiki.openice.org/index.php?title=2009-Dec-14-LinuxICE_2.0_Final a link to linux ice. As far as hardware goes, there are quite a few intel atom boards out there with car friendly power supplies. Beagle board is also worth a look http://beagleboard.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckolander Posted October 16, 2010 Author Share Posted October 16, 2010 Fricfrac, do you have a step by step or anything like that, yeah it's goin in my s130 and I'm a good installer, it's just the logistics of the whole situation that has me stumped. Love the setup in that pic too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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