Anyone tried making a hatch cover/privacy thingy?

[benyandthejets]

Mines home made. Thin MDF and black felt like cloth,,,big azz speaker in the middle.

The one J-Beef made for his Mx-3?

I made mine for a computer

Damn nice work. May I ask why you have a computer in your car though?

[Josh]

Carputer. why would you not? Carputers are awesome, I have seriously contemplated it, though I decided to go with just a android based in dash deck.

[Surgeonasst222]

Carputer. why would you not? Carputers are awesome, I have seriously contemplated it, though I decided to go with just a android based in dash deck.

Josh I love u, I think my wife would hate me cuz I would always have u over helping me with my car lol

[benyandthejets]

Carputer. why would you not? Carputers are awesome, I have seriously contemplated it, though I decided to go with just a android based in dash deck.

Haha I'm totally down. I was just curious as to what he was doing with it, eg a media center?

[Josh]

Carputer. why would you not? Carputers are awesome, I have seriously contemplated it, though I decided to go with just a android based in dash deck.

Josh I love u, I think my wife would hate me cuz I would always have u over helping me with my car lol

Thanks ... lol My wife hates me all the time because I am always helping people with their cars...

[Nd4SpdSe]

The CarPC in my Mx-3 was done back in 2002 when I first got the car, it was an idea I had for a while when I drove my parents 626. Nowadays you don't really need to run one anymore to get the same functionality (the Xterra has one, but the mobo and LCD are dead, and I want to put one in the 8, but cash isn't really there for that project). I started it before the CarPC market existed. Used it as a GPS when GPS was only an OEM option and you couldn't buy a TomTom or Garmin. My full Mp3 collection was on there. Some mp4 movies and even a TV tuner card (My PS2 passed through it as well) with an antenna (no I didn't watch anything while driving). Had a good video card in there to play games. I've even sat in there and done homework so I had the MS Office suite installed. Anything you're mind can come up with, it's handy and truely was useful, especially sitting in the car and waiting for people.

Ideally, I want one in the X and one in the 8 and have them talk to each other, but not that I can drive both at the same time, lol!

[Josh]

Then look no further than http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/all-products

I love my asteroid classic, and when the RS is functional I will be going to the double din. They also have a deck just for the Iphone.

[Nd4SpdSe]

Ohhh, nice, but not what I want for a setup.

While th X originally had a double-din 6-disc, I swapped it out for a Pionner 980BT and the space under neath is where I mounted my CB radio. Although they made a nice new color single-din CD player, it's MP3 only, no CD.

The 8 I want to put in a nice Pioneer Double-Din to replace the factory 6-disk, and get the OEM Nav display (the only thing my 8 is missing is the Nav) and use that for CarPC display.

CarPC's are technically outdated in terms of function/cost/size, but I perfer it that way for flexibility. I do like Android for the apps however, for that part I'm jealous.

[benyandthejets]

As a huge computer guy(I'm a software engineer), I find having a huge touch screen or apps to be pretty pointless. I just got the most simple deck that support a aux cable and subs. I like using knobs, much easier to control stuff in the car. I do love the cool factor though, especially like the people who have mounted nexus 7s in their dashes.

[Josh]

That is what I wanted to do originally ^^ but they have issues with them shutting off and or draining the battery. The Asteroid classic is not a touch screen but does everything I wanted it to minus a backup camera input. I thought I would hate not having a CD player, but meh that was so 10 years ago, I don't even know where any of my CD are. I have like 30 Gb's of music and call it a day. the rest I stream off of my phone via blue tooth.

I think in the car it is better to have large icons just for the sake of driving, but to each their own.

[benyandthejets]

Yeah, and people were also having issues with them overheating i believe since cars can get reallly hot in the sun. I just looked at the pictures of that asteriod classic, that thing looks really classy. Much better than a lot of the light up decks. CDs are definitely pointless! Most of my music is on my phone.