Installing a computer in your car

[monty73741]

blue tooth is kinda not the way to go....its not really supported...but i think it is awsome......82.11b is the way to go & if you are in a city with free wireless nets....then u have access<BR>jason

[Nd4SpdSe]

you cant put a pci card into a laptop,. they consume too much power, you can however get a Creative SoundBlaster Extigy <A HREF="http://www.soundblaster.com/products/extigy/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.soundblaster.com/products/extigy/</A> <P>I like the carputer, i can upgrade at will, use standard components, a carputer with my features could be quite expensive, and would require alot of USB ports and dangling things to lose and/or break, besides PCI is way faster than USB, and you only have 2 PCMCIA/CardBus slots. Upgrade RAM, CPU, Hard Drive, Optical Drives with ease, and dont hafta worry about buying overcharged propriatary hardware. And there nothing stopping be to turn it into a high-end gamming machine. I doubt you'll even see a Radeon 9700Pro or a Western-Digital 8MB Buffer HD, or 1GB of RAM in a laptop, well maybe, but i dont wanna imagine the price<P>I had a laptop, its ok, but having a seperate keyboard and monitor is more flexible in a car, i couldnt fit my laptop on my lap in my car, i can however, fit a keyboard<P>monty73741, thanks for the info, i was thinking that as well,. my city is too small for "free" internet, but when i goto TO, i could I think ill go 802.11b<p>[ November 27, 2002: Message edited by: Nd4SpdSe ]

[Nd4SpdSe]

Also, i can my hard drive to Serial ATA with a simple mainboard or add a SATA card, BTW here are the specs of Seagate SATA HDD. Go down to environmental and check out the shock tolerances, 63g's in use, 350g's when not in operation<BR> <p>[ November 28, 2002: Message edited by: Nd4SpdSe ]

[Psyrg]

If I were to run large and expensive hard disk drives in a car I would go for laptop drives due to their shock resistant design. If you wish to use the larger sized drives, you may wish to cradle them in some sort of shock resistant enclosure.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>82.11b is the way to go & if you are in a city with free wireless nets....then u have access<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Yep, if you know their gateway adress. Just recently I saw the deisns for a bowtie type antenna whcih could give about 10km of directional conection...

[Nd4SpdSe]

Cant you sniff for wireless networks?<P>BTW, i finally took pics (especially for insurance purposes). So if you want to see them, just post your e-mail addy and ill send them over

[thebonestockkid]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nd4SpdSe:<BR><STRONG>Cant you sniff for wireless networks?<P>BTW, i finally took pics (especially for insurance purposes). So if you want to see them, just post your e-mail addy and ill send them over</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I'd like to see how it turned out . hitz1035@hotmail.com

[Nd4SpdSe]

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[Nd4SpdSe]

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[VizualXTC]

Looks a little ghetto. LOL, but HELLA better than what I got. I give ya props bro. All I need is an LCD, but I should be getting one soon, and will be putting together my own carputer. Nice pix tho.

[Nd4SpdSe]

Ghetto, Lol, Thx...<P>Its a start, the wires will definitely need to be organised, amp will be mounted to the back of the seat, a/c inverter not sure. the Suitcase PC will eventyally be redone to blend in with the car.<P>that LCD stand is only temporary, i rigged it up from parts of a hold store displY at work using a dremel and a drill in about 4 hours. My dad is talking to a friend that works with aluminum, be may help me in making a better and adjustable LCD stand.<P>Most of that i've done is a first attempt, prototyping if you will. You cant always do things perfect the first shot, especially when i've never done this before. Although i'm not the first person to do it, doing custom stuff that should theoretically work isnt easy. Mostly what i was looking for is functionality, than slowly, it'll be cleaned up. Plan is to hide the PC in the spare tire area, but only when i get a 2nd vehicle, but in the end, im confident that it will look good.<P>When building it, i was mostly worried about temperature, especially during summer and winter. Ironicly, if i would have waited a few hours to take those pics, there would be a foot of snow of the ground

[VizualXTC]

Naw man, I wasn't raggin on your setup. Like I said, it's hella better than what I have. In fact I think most of your ideas were pretty good. I thought about your idea about hiding the LCD in your glove box, and I drew up a little sketch of an arm. I dunno if it's what you're thinkin, but it's an idea [img]shrug.gif"%20border="0[/img]<P>I can't host pix anymore so here is a link to the picture. <BR><A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/vizualxtc/ ... Dplans.jpg" TARGET=_blank>Glove Box LCD Arm</A>

[Nd4SpdSe]

np, i didnt take offence <P>i dont under stand on how it works, of where the lcd is. What i figure is that it will fold against the glove box, having a black back, it'll blend in quite good

[Nd4SpdSe]

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