Jim Holden Blog

Carputer

October 31st, 2005

I’ve just bought the final piece to my puzzle. I’ve been wanting to install a car-puter for a year or so now and I’ve just recently made the purchase which makes it all possible.

Let me introduce the Lilliput 7″ Touchscreen TFT. It’s lovely, the first one I got was broken but this one is working a treat. I’ve hooked up a MicroATX MSI board running a P4 2.54Ghz with 1GB RAM and the usual stuff. It looks sweet and with the Navigator software I’ve got I am sure its going to be a lot of fun.

My main worry is obviosuly installing the beast. I may end up buying the 12v -> Motherboard convertor as I’ve currently got a 240V 300WAT invertor which is kind of scary - cars arnt supposed to have 240v streaming around. Either way I’ve run a test and the system works fine. The GPS reciever is great (and magnetic) so it is now a question of a perm. install.

I will keep this post updated as I do more.

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