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Old May 15, 2005 | 06:26 PM
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WackyRicky
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From: JDM Land
Default Check out my custom Car PC!

hi all

what i have here is a car computer neatly installed in my teg glove box. I spent so much money (close to 1500. that's a lot for a broke highschool kid) and time and effort to make it work flawlessly.
Sadly i'm leaving country soon and I'm selling everything that i can sell at this point so I decided to share it with everyone before it's gone.




It basically does everything that those expensive headunits with a hard drive and touch screen and all those fancy things. It has a 20G hard drive to store 1000s of mp3, video files, games and pretty much anything else. The harddrive is mounted vertically to prevent damage to the hard drive when driving on a bumpy road. It can do a bunch of other things like GPS navigation, DVD playback, you name it. Cool thing about it is that it's a fully windows-compatible mini computer so you can do anything as long as you have right software/hardware for what you want to do. Power-on and power-off correspond to ignition-on and off so every time you start your car it automatically starts up and shuts itself down when you turn the ignition off. I had mine set up so that every time i start my car it talks to me like james bond's 750IL.

It was a big project for me. I spent almost 8 months saving up, buying all the components, putting everything together, testing it, taking it apart and putting everything back together to make it do what i wanted to do. I finished building it a month ago and now i have to sell it! It was in my car for less than 2 weeks. Please leave comments.

Edit: Now up for sale! check out the link in my signature
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