Homemade Dash/Truck PC
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Homemade Dash/Truck PC
My apologies for not continuing on the original thread for the third time, but I couldn't find it easily enough and I'm exhausted, and want to go to sleep.
So if Justin doesn't mind, I'll be lazy and start a new thread.
If you remember where we left off... I made a homemade fiberglass dash and installed it into my F350 crewcab, like so:
Then, after being tired of driving with the factory cluster on my lap and staring at vast holes, I finally got around to hacking up yet another thunderbird cluster, as well as a chrysler "information center" which I shoved a ton of LED's in, as well as two pushbuttons for controlling the PC should my automatic PC controller wig out or something. Anyway, this is how the cluster turned out:
So far so good, right? Except I've had this absolutely huge hole where the truck PC is to be mounted... except I never got around to finishing that.
I did today.
here is the homemade steel cage I made, with the 3m 13" touchscreen installed.
Here is the back, with the p4 motherboard, 2 gigs of ram, and a 200gig IDE drive installed:
And while those pictures are "neat" you all want to see the thing working, right?
Now, driving with a mouse is impossible. Enter touchscreen.
http://frederic.midimonkey.com/f350/IM001554.AVI (1.23mb)
Now to reinstall the GPS software, finish soldering up the PC controller, and maybe tomorrow I can slap this puppy into the dash
So if Justin doesn't mind, I'll be lazy and start a new thread.
If you remember where we left off... I made a homemade fiberglass dash and installed it into my F350 crewcab, like so:
Then, after being tired of driving with the factory cluster on my lap and staring at vast holes, I finally got around to hacking up yet another thunderbird cluster, as well as a chrysler "information center" which I shoved a ton of LED's in, as well as two pushbuttons for controlling the PC should my automatic PC controller wig out or something. Anyway, this is how the cluster turned out:
So far so good, right? Except I've had this absolutely huge hole where the truck PC is to be mounted... except I never got around to finishing that.
I did today.
here is the homemade steel cage I made, with the 3m 13" touchscreen installed.
Here is the back, with the p4 motherboard, 2 gigs of ram, and a 200gig IDE drive installed:
And while those pictures are "neat" you all want to see the thing working, right?
Now, driving with a mouse is impossible. Enter touchscreen.
http://frederic.midimonkey.com/f350/IM001554.AVI (1.23mb)
Now to reinstall the GPS software, finish soldering up the PC controller, and maybe tomorrow I can slap this puppy into the dash
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Originally Posted by PyroBob
Does that successfully relate my appreciation of you sharing your projects?
Originally Posted by low92flareside
Not making FTE your homepage I see....
Very cool. Can't wait to see pics of the finished product. good luck.
Very cool. Can't wait to see pics of the finished product. good luck.
Plus, maintaining all your stuff in one place is convienent - and at gigE speeds (since it's local) there is absolutely no waiting ever
And thanks for the compliment!
Last edited by frederic; 01-25-2006 at 07:32 AM.
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Yeah, well, it has a lot to do.
Movies for passengers, on-the-fly maps for me, radio, TV, act as a wireless router when 8.11B/G is available, sprint PCS internet when not, eventually climate control and suspension control, blah blah blah. I just had to buy the motherboard, everything else was "spares" for my webserver. Recycle
Movies for passengers, on-the-fly maps for me, radio, TV, act as a wireless router when 8.11B/G is available, sprint PCS internet when not, eventually climate control and suspension control, blah blah blah. I just had to buy the motherboard, everything else was "spares" for my webserver. Recycle
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Originally Posted by pfogle
Which release of Fedora Core are you running? I've had some issues with 4.
So, I went backwards to FC2.
Now I'm trying to get the linksys wireless card to work (WMP54G) and that's been a struggle... seems that driver is only available as source, rather than as a already compiled version. Oh well.
Always an adventure
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Very awesome. I love seeing a nerd show his true colors then ontop of that he shows hes mechanically inclinded. Very awesome man. On having your own website I know the feeling. Its just nice to host your own cause you have everyhting you need right then and there. Im at school or work most of the time and I have my VPN setup so I can access everything I need to.
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Originally Posted by pfogle
Fredric, look into a program called NDISWRAPPER, it will let you use the WINDOWS driver. I know it works, I've used it on Fedora Core 2. It refused to work with 4 so I went back to 3.
And thanks S8!
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Frederic,
I'm still patting myself on the back for eliminating my dana 60 king pin springs this week....I'll just pretend I didn't see this thread so that I can still feel like I'm breaking new ground
btw- touch screen makes sense, but I half expected a roller-mouse setup on your gear shift
You said suspension control. Air bags?
I'm still patting myself on the back for eliminating my dana 60 king pin springs this week....I'll just pretend I didn't see this thread so that I can still feel like I'm breaking new ground
btw- touch screen makes sense, but I half expected a roller-mouse setup on your gear shift
You said suspension control. Air bags?