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Relay tail lights?
I had a system in my car last year. GPS, music, video and all. It was really handy finding Peters house in that horrible rain storm!
Check out MP3forums, they do all sorts of stuff, lots of code prewritten as well. PC systems as well as the mac mini's.
As for LCD's, the price is lower and the touch screens are nice, but watch some of the manufacturers. I returned a monitor that burned out in under 90 days and got back an older model that had been used. Man am I pissed.....
The touch screens take a fair bit of concentration to use. Dangerous at 55+. So I am writing a voice active system that can start/stop/operate individual programs like GPS, music/video and run the megasquirt. (Jills sick of me testing the code with the music REALLY loud :)
I went with the Shuttle computer because of the support and parts available. More like open source. I can build stuff for the systems hardware and software.
(Ever notice that the people who support open source software also support Apple which is closed source in hardware? Strange.....)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: GGehrke [mailto:ggehrke@gmail.com]
>Sent: Sunday, March 5, 2006 07:53 AM
>To: 'Craig Steiner'
>Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Relay tail lights?
>
>>
>> I just saw this book today. Looks like a lot of fun. Especially adding a
>> computer motherboard in the car, or the GPS mouse. I think I'll have to go
>> back and pick it up.
>>
>
>I've read through most of it and can't wait to get some of them going.
> My dream for years has been to put a computer in the car. I started
>putting one into my BMW in high school - got most of the parts, but at
>the time the LCD panels I needed were much harder to find and I had to
>give it up. I am kind of toying with the idea of a Mac Mini in the
>VW. It's beautifully small, and stylish at that. It'd practically
>fit in a standard DIN slot, so it'd be really easy to make it work. I
>am a programmer, too, so being able to write utilities up in
>AppleScript to do all the 'car' kind of things would be a snap. The
>only hold up is that it's not as compatible with engine management
>type stuff that I might want to run.
>
>But yea, cool book. I like that it's really recent, too ((C) 2006),
>so it's all up to date technology and where it lists companies and
>brands I can be sure they're still around. And it's published by
>McGraw Hill so it's practically a textbook.
>
>-Grant-
>
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