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12th August 2009 - 08:52 AM
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as the topic states, i have nearly finished my car pc build. took a week of planning gathering and building. so here we go.. 1. inspiration for this build came from an idea quite sometime back, but after seeing the one for sale here on these forums that was built by justin i thought to myself.. hey! that aint so hard! so after a little stuffin around with trying to buy the one for sale i started out by finding a bit of 6mm aluminium and cut it to 18cm x 18cm ( just as justins build thread stated ) 2. i then made a list of the things i would need/ like to have on this car pc. - dual core power = atom 330 cpu - decent motherboard with good amount of connections = intel with built in atom 330 cpu - touchscreen lcd = lilliput 7 inch touchscreen lcd eby701 np/c/t - good psu to handle harsh auto environment = m2 mini itx psu - bluetooth = mini bluetooth 2.0 dongle - decnet ram = 2gb 800mhz ram - decent HDD = WD 250 2.5" HDD - all peripherals must be sata or usb connection - gps receiver = gps usb receiver baud rate 9800 - factory looking = bybyte liliput 7 inch lcd double din mount. - dvd burner slot load = dual layer dvd durner slot load 12.5mm sata connetion - vga connectors male and female and 16 core ribbon cable from jaycar gotta love that 70% discount 1st pic: here is the aluminium base cut and buffed with the motherboard already mounted. i cut the alum from the size stated in justins build 18cm x 18cm fits perfectly 2nd pic: to mount the board i simply placed the board on the aluminium and marked out the holes on the mobo with black marker and drilled them out with a 4.5mm drill bit. i then used some urethane nipples i had lying around. drilled them out with a 3mm bit and pushed them into the holes. i then used m3 screws and rubber grommets and washers and nuts to mount the board at the desired height. 3rd pic: 2 gb of ramming power! 4th pic: here is the base of the carpc next to the minidisc tv tuner that came out of the soarer. 5th pic: i got impatient waiting for all the other bits and pieces to arrive so i mounted the hdd on the cpu fan and heatsink using some heat proof resin lattice 6th pic: here is the little 60W psu i am no longer using. good little unit just not what i had in mind, came with the mobo and 2gb of ram and 250 gb hdd i bought 7th pic: all mounted ready to fire up and upload operating system and drivers and other softwares 8th pic: fired up running windows 7 build 7022 to start with 32 bit. ran the 1280 x 768 23 inch fine. 9th pic: base mounted under climate control total height of unit is 80mm so just under a double dn size. 10th pic: note where i had to cut out to allow all connections to be accessed. 11th pic: other side. note how the sata connections are easily accessed and the 20 pin power connector. 12th pic: dummy fitted into dash with usb hub connected, 13th pic: lilliput 7 inch touchscreen lcd vga input arrived 14th pic: touchscreen tested on carpc running 1024 x 768 resolution, milkdrop 2.0 at 50frames per second 15th pic: pulled apart after testing back view 16th pic: front view 17th pic: here is the lcd mounted into the 20 gauge steel frame with infrared led re wired to allow it to be located next to the lcd in the frame. allows me to have full use of the remote for switching to front and rear video inputs ( for future night vision front camera and colour rear parking camera) and on/off duties. 18th pic: the small profile vga connector i made up, we all know how big standard connectors are so there was no way in hell the standard plug was going to fit. ( cheers to justins build log for the heads up with clearances) 19th pic: here it is!! all wired up running windows 7 build 7600 32bit resolution is best left at 800 x 480 as it looks the best and is quite readable. i chose windows 7 as it has touchscreen input built into it, so onscreen keyboard and all that jazz. i have also mounted the 150W m2 psu, wired a momentary action switch for manual on/off, tested the ignition switched positive, spliced the lcd into the 12V rail off the psu so its all internally powered. ran it all overnight with music pumping and milkdrop 2 stressin the cpu, woke up this morning and it was still runnin with no hiccups. also off the psu i have spliced the remote amplifier on ground into the psu 12v ground set the jumper settings on the psu to off delay 5 sec and hardoff 45 seconds (off delay = how long the psu waits to start shutdown procedure on carpc once ignition is turned off. hardoff = how long the psu waits until it cuts all power to all rails , 45 seconds is plenty of time for the carpc to shutdown. this feature ensures i wont come to a car with a dead battery ) i also have a little sony box that came with the soarer that takes rca inputs and plugs into the standard toyota harness so i can still use the factory sound system.. for now im waiting on my spdif out connection to arrive and slot load dvd burner and also the refurbished climate control unit before i mount this in the car. once mounted in the car i will take more pics of it in action. i also have obd software for reading off the diagnostics port digital gauges ftw!!!! not game to try the tuning software yet. -------------------- |
My_ToyMota
Post #4
cheers guys its a perfect double din size too so any car with a double din can follow this guide roughly and have the same thing. |
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My_ToyMota
Post #8
cheers guys. |
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Croma
Post #11
Been planning to make one of these when i go back to aus.. |
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My_ToyMota
Post #13
cheers mate i can use midi controllers and such on it runs serato no worries if i ever put the turntables in the boot. lol |
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My_ToyMota
Post #16
cheers for the kind words everyone! |
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My_ToyMota
Post #19
ok fifa 09 works well, little bit of lag. nothing killer. nhl 09 smooth as silk, f.e.a.r. pretty smooth, comande and conquer kanes wrath works well, call of duty 4 wouldnt start as the vid card cant handle the shaders required. , need for speed most wanted is saying i need to run directx 9c or higher, which i have so im thinking the file is corrupt. need for speed undercover installed no worries but gave me a white screen after the intro video. havent tried pro street yet. installing nba 2k9 now, |
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My_ToyMota
Post #21
^^^^ read the posts further up mate, explains the cost of parts and stuff like that. bout $830 in total for all parts. |
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My_ToyMota
Post #23
the base was just some aluminium i had. ebay and a few american websites for the rest. |
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My_ToyMota
Post #24
here are a couple more shots of it installed for fit in the soarer, the soarer has a 2.5 din space so the bottom bit will be for the 4 post usb hub and slot load dual layer dvd burner. and front panel audio line out (if i wanna listen to headphones for some unknown reason perhaps??) and mic in |
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My_ToyMota
Post #25
just a little update on this. the gps software im using is google earth and the software to convert gps raw stream data to kml data for google earth is called earthbridge. works very well so far provided you have a broadband internet stick hooked up. mostly for the search for directions fucnction. just for gps tracking no internet is required and google earth uses whatever is stored in the cache for trackin purposes. |
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