 |
|
Mar 27, 2008, 10:57 AM
|
#1
|
|
Evolved Member
Personal Sales Rating: ( 7)
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Philly, PA
Posts: 587
Drives: Dust collecting boosted Civic, '03 Evo8, 09 Audi A3
|
My carputer thread
Just thought I'd document all the carputer work I've been doing for my car since this time it will be built with alot of customizations to make it look as seamless and "non-PC" as possible.
Here are the major parts to the system:
Flip out touchscreen LCD - with VGA port and usb connectivity for touchscreen.
IBM t40 laptop for the brains of the job
tactrix cable for OBDII datalogging.
a 160GB hard drive was purchased to load all the crap for this setup.
ebay special USB GPS receiver
software used
OS- Windows XP. it's a basic install with various services disabled to free up resources.
front end- road runner open source interface with a custom skin.
example with a skin
iGuidance version 3 - GPS software which works very well with most of the skins available.
__________________
BOOST doesn't get you laid. Roofies and some creativity does however
*STOP* - selling something with an "Easy fix" if it's easy, just freaking fix it then sell it!
*STOP* - posting stock evos, just because you took your wing off it's not new thread worthy.
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
Mar 27, 2008, 10:58 AM
|
#2
|
|
Evolved Member
Personal Sales Rating: ( 7)
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Philly, PA
Posts: 587
Drives: Dust collecting boosted Civic, '03 Evo8, 09 Audi A3
|
Using Wincustomize's bootscreen editor (freeware) I was able to change the boot up screen to this.
keep in mind it has to be 16 color and a 640x480 bmp file in order to work
all windows based functions (log off, log on, hibernate) were set to not display the screens during the process to eliminate the pc look.
__________________
BOOST doesn't get you laid. Roofies and some creativity does however
*STOP* - selling something with an "Easy fix" if it's easy, just freaking fix it then sell it!
*STOP* - posting stock evos, just because you took your wing off it's not new thread worthy.
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
Mar 27, 2008, 11:00 AM
|
#3
|
|
Evolved Member
Personal Sales Rating: ( 7)
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Philly, PA
Posts: 587
Drives: Dust collecting boosted Civic, '03 Evo8, 09 Audi A3
|
Here is the interface i'm using
so far i made evoscan a main menu item so you click on it, and evoscan opens EMBEDDED INSIDE the interface. Once version 2.2 is out, I can call the app with a gauge xml option to go straight into dashboard mode.
__________________
BOOST doesn't get you laid. Roofies and some creativity does however
*STOP* - selling something with an "Easy fix" if it's easy, just freaking fix it then sell it!
*STOP* - posting stock evos, just because you took your wing off it's not new thread worthy.
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
Mar 27, 2008, 11:09 AM
|
#4
|
|
Evolved Member
Personal Sales Rating: ( 7)
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Philly, PA
Posts: 587
Drives: Dust collecting boosted Civic, '03 Evo8, 09 Audi A3
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kreeker
The dash makes me cringe... ****ing ford.
|
yeah i know 
__________________
BOOST doesn't get you laid. Roofies and some creativity does however
*STOP* - selling something with an "Easy fix" if it's easy, just freaking fix it then sell it!
*STOP* - posting stock evos, just because you took your wing off it's not new thread worthy.
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
Mar 29, 2008, 06:32 AM
|
#5
|
|
Evolved Member
Personal Sales Rating: ( 28)
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: USA
Posts: 882
Drives: 2005 Electric Blue Evo 8
|
Is the interface a custom job or an open source you have changed? Are you going to boot the PC everytime you get into the car or hibernate/sleep mode with the ignition?
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
Mar 31, 2008, 09:42 PM
|
#6
|
|
Evolved Member
Personal Sales Rating: ( 7)
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Philly, PA
Posts: 587
Drives: Dust collecting boosted Civic, '03 Evo8, 09 Audi A3
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by fixem2
Is the interface a custom job or an open source you have changed? Are you going to boot the PC everytime you get into the car or hibernate/sleep mode with the ignition?
|
hibernate/sleep
front end is roadrunner open source front end with a skin.
__________________
BOOST doesn't get you laid. Roofies and some creativity does however
*STOP* - selling something with an "Easy fix" if it's easy, just freaking fix it then sell it!
*STOP* - posting stock evos, just because you took your wing off it's not new thread worthy.
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
Mar 31, 2008, 10:17 PM
|
#7
|
|
Evolved Member
Personal Sales Rating: ( 21)
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Bellevue. WA
Posts: 2,365
Drives: 05 element, 03 evo (mutating)
|
do you store the laptop under the seat?
so you also use it to tune your ecu? the idea of a laptop powered touch screen is nice. you can take the laptop inside to work on the logs.
how do you reduce the crap on the hard drive?
|
|
Online
|
|
|
Mar 31, 2008, 10:32 PM
|
#8
|
|
Evolved Member
Personal Sales Rating: ( 7)
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Philly, PA
Posts: 587
Drives: Dust collecting boosted Civic, '03 Evo8, 09 Audi A3
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by nothere
do you store the laptop under the seat?
so you also use it to tune your ecu? the idea of a laptop powered touch screen is nice. you can take the laptop inside to work on the logs.
how do you reduce the crap on the hard drive?
|
being an IT guy, you know what services you can disable and also remove any windows components you don't need.
the laptop is pretty quick, so i don't have to tweak it much.
there are custom apps like nlite, which lets you build super small windows footprints
__________________
BOOST doesn't get you laid. Roofies and some creativity does however
*STOP* - selling something with an "Easy fix" if it's easy, just freaking fix it then sell it!
*STOP* - posting stock evos, just because you took your wing off it's not new thread worthy.
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
Apr 4, 2008, 10:22 AM
|
#9
|
|
Evolved Member
Personal Sales Rating: ( 9)
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Alabama
Posts: 619
Drives: Gixxa, 03 TB VIII
|
Very nice looking and I definitely like the stealth nature of it.
__________________
Yes . . . that's me on the bike.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Darxide
LayinLo, you're cooler than the other side of the pillow. LOL
|
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
Apr 4, 2008, 11:41 AM
|
#10
|
|
Evolving Member
Personal Sales Rating: ( 8)
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: SE Taxachusetts
Posts: 104
Drives: IX MR GG
|
nice! makes me want to finish mine  been working on my house and postponed my car pc
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
Apr 4, 2008, 01:09 PM
|
#11
|
|
Evolved Member
Personal Sales Rating: ( 7)
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Philly, PA
Posts: 587
Drives: Dust collecting boosted Civic, '03 Evo8, 09 Audi A3
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Davedangerous
nice! makes me want to finish mine been working on my house and postponed my car pc |
I want to finish but im waiting on radio brackets! thats it!!
once done i'll show pics (didn't want to show install pics for security purposes)
also I can upload my customized car front end if that helps anyone with their setup.
__________________
BOOST doesn't get you laid. Roofies and some creativity does however
*STOP* - selling something with an "Easy fix" if it's easy, just freaking fix it then sell it!
*STOP* - posting stock evos, just because you took your wing off it's not new thread worthy.
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
Apr 4, 2008, 02:24 PM
|
#12
|
|
Newbie
Personal Sales Rating: ( 0)
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: In the fail section
Posts: 78
Drives: to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ol' boys were drinking whisky and rye. Singing, "This'll be the day that I die"
|
I want to make a car pc but i dont have the knowledge on how to make one and installing it 
Im jealous!
Quite some time now i've been deciding between Carputer or Kenwood headunit but alas im going to choose the Kenwood since i lack the skill.
__________________
Banana Cream Pie »»»» CAKE!
Quote:
Originally Posted by 22stars
i'd never kill you, even if you are a blaspheming heretic...
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by CaliMR
RTT, you are my hero
|
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
Apr 4, 2008, 02:36 PM
|
#13
|
|
Evolving Member
Personal Sales Rating: ( 8)
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: SE Taxachusetts
Posts: 104
Drives: IX MR GG
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by igo4bmx
I want to finish but im waiting on radio brackets! thats it!!
once done i'll show pics (didn't want to show install pics for security purposes)
also I can upload my customized car front end if that helps anyone with their setup.
|
that would be cool if you uploaded it. that the only part that i suck at lol when i had my car pc in my sti i ran windows because i was having major issues with RR. If it continues to rain here saturday i think i know what i'm going to do 
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
Apr 4, 2008, 02:37 PM
|
#14
|
|
Evolving Member
Personal Sales Rating: ( 8)
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: SE Taxachusetts
Posts: 104
Drives: IX MR GG
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rin Tin Tin
I want to make a car pc but i dont have the knowledge on how to make one and installing it
Im jealous!
Quite some time now i've been deciding between Carputer or Kenwood headunit but alas im going to choose the Kenwood since i lack the skill. |
http://www.mp3car.com/
everything that you need to know!!! take your time and don't rush into anything
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
Apr 4, 2008, 11:24 PM
|
#15
|
|
Newbie
Personal Sales Rating: ( 0)
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: In the fail section
Posts: 78
Drives: to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ol' boys were drinking whisky and rye. Singing, "This'll be the day that I die"
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Davedangerous
|
I watched the video on the front page "how to install...."
SO MANY WIRES.... head hurting.... AHHHHHHHHHHH.
I dont think ill be able to learn how to install the car computer. I can probably build one if its like a desktop computer but i also wont be able to do any of the front end stuff.
Sucks for me
__________________
Banana Cream Pie »»»» CAKE!
Quote:
Originally Posted by 22stars
i'd never kill you, even if you are a blaspheming heretic...
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by CaliMR
RTT, you are my hero
|
|
|
Offline
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
| | 
|
