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Postby smeghead on Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:00 am

I thought I would share my car computer project with you's...

1. Moved the original computer to where the ashtray and ciggi lighter live



2. Took out surround and mounted screen bracket... had to do a little trimming to fit the screen



Thats the GPS out the back

3. Removed front passenger seat and mounted the computer and the power regulator... wired it all up




4. Tidied the wiring a bit...


5. Replaced seat


6. Voila!




Check out my profile for hardware specs...
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Postby Greedy on Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:26 am

That's nice work there Smeg. I'm going down the same route myself so very happy that someone has trodden it before me. A lot more confident now. Just be careful on those water crossings. Wouldn't want to fry it up.
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Postby trickydevil on Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:26 am

That's gold 8-) 2 thumbs up foryou smeg.
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Postby Buzzy on Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:48 am

Smick work smeghead ;)
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Postby 4wd26 on Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:47 am

Thats great?
What front end software program are you using?
Was the triton screen available for download or did you make it yourself. (I've looked but not found something made)

I really like the new location of the trip computer. You didn't try and link the data (fuel etc) into the carputer?
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Postby 4wd26 on Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:51 am

Sorry Mate, just looked at your profile.
Man thats awesome work on the "custom" centrafuse front end.
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Postby smeghead on Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:55 am

The front end software is Centrafuse by Flux Media...
I did the triton logo myself (happy to share it)

I would have absolutely no idea how to plug the car telemetry data into the computer... I wouldn't even know where to begin... would be great to do tho...
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Postby Greedy on Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:00 am

Smeg,
Is that front end capable as dual zone. I want to run slave screens in the back for the childerbeasts
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Postby smeghead on Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:06 am

It is indeed... you can output nav, video/dvd, reverse camera, etc to other displays... as long as the OS is aware of multiple displays centrafuse can output to it...

There is no reason why you can't output all different functions to different displays... eg. main control where mine is... reverse camera to a rearview mounted screen... video to headrest screens... as long as the computer has enough outputs...
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Postby martyboy on Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:08 am

I want one.
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Postby smeghead on Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:12 am

Well all the hardware came in at around $600...

I can post a set of ingredients if anyone is interested...
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Postby Greedy on Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:13 am

I'm in smeg. I'd be keen to find out what you're running. How do you want to do it? email PM etc
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Postby 4wd26 on Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:24 am

Not sure how to get this to work myself, or if it would work on the diesel triton (but the scanguage works on the triton so that sort of means it would work???)

see link for discussion on evoscan.
[url]http://www2.pajeroclub.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=2486&page=2[/url]

Food for though on maximising the computer power.
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Postby smeghead on Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:24 am

Carputer ingredients:

Dell Optiplex SX270... ~$100 - [url=http://www.dola.com.au/onlineauction/auction/APViewItem.asp?ID=177661]Like this one...[/url] (I paid about $100, you might get it for less, this auction site always seems to have them)

Lilliput EBY701 7" touch screen... ~$150 - [url=http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Lilliput-7-Touch-Screen-XGA-TFT-Car-PC-Monitor-EBY701_W0QQitemZ290241089739QQihZ019QQcategoryZ32825QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em122] like this one...[/url] I paid much less for P&H when I got mine...

Carnetix P2140 DC-DC Power Regulator... ~$140 - [url=http://store.mp3car.com/Carnetix_CNX_P2140_185W_DC_DC_Regulator_p/pwr-026.htm] from these guys (mp3car)[/url] this sites forum is the dogs bollocks for carputer info...

GPS Mouse - ~$30 - [url=http://cgi.ebay.com.au/iGPS-M-Pro-USB-GPS-Receiver-G-Mouse-32-Ch-4-Laptop-NB_W0QQitemZ360063349578QQihZ023QQcategoryZ34288QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem] like this one...[/url]

Reverse Camera ~$30 - [url=http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Wide-Angle-Night-Vision-Car-Rear-View-Reversing-Camera_W0QQitemZ200234560023QQihZ010QQcategoryZ33721QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem] like this one...[/url] I just got a cheapy... does the job well

USB AV Adapter ~$20 - [url=http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Video-Capture-AV-S-Video-line-in-to-USB-2-0-Adapter-PC_W0QQitemZ220249881292QQihZ012QQcategoryZ111509QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem] like this one... [/url] Again cheap and does the job...


Cable, plugs, tape and other crap about another $100 or so... comes in around $600...

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Postby Henk Bos on Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:00 am

Nice piece of work! Would be interested to see some screenshots from Ozi on that 7" screen. I stuck with 8" because I thought the resolution of a 7" might not be good enough (I wear glasses).
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Postby Austblue on Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:04 am

Isn't power consumption very high on that PC? I looked at something like this a while back and all the car pc guys said that running a desktop might appear to be a cheap alternative but the hardware is overkill and too thirsty on the power.

Awesome job though if you don't have any power issues I'll definitely be following in your path I love the factory look!
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Postby sheepo on Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:10 am

hi silly question what do you use it for?
looks great though
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Postby smeghead on Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:22 am

A cheap alternative to what austblue?

The system draws about 45w...

Sheepo- I use it play all my media, navigation, reverse camera... I have wireless broadband... I have also written an application that allows my windows mobile phone to communicate with the PC... and after 4wd26's suggestion, I am going to look at OBD2 integration to get system readouts
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Postby Buzzy on Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:29 am

I would love to do this but my track record with braking my home PC isnt so good. I would definatly f%$k this one for sure. :roll:
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Postby cyberhonky on Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:49 am

smeghead- how u reckon the HDD will go with offroad- my experience with Dell and their HDD's is shitfull.

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Postby smeghead on Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:02 am

The great thing about the sx270 is that it is basically made up of laptop components. It's a laptop hdd so it can handle reasonable bumps. I have done some moderate off-roading since installing with no dramas yet.
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Postby cyberhonky on Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:17 am

thats my point- my last dell latitude has 3 HDD failures
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Postby smeghead on Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:23 am

Wow... thats crap... well, its a second hand computer, at least 5 years old and cost me 100 bucks... if the hdd fails I wont be too disappointed... these machines can boot from USB so worst comes to worst I can move the OS to a USB flash drive and then bumps wont be an issue...
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Postby cyberhonky on Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:27 am

yeh- ive got a couple of opti's at the workshop- just made me wonder after my experience how it'd go- i never used to beat my notebook around but they'd still fail. the new solid state drives would kick butt offroad though
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Postby Henk Bos on Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:18 pm

Smeg, would you mind sharing that mobile application?
As for OBD, I bought the device from http://www.obdpros.com. Easy install, software runs fine. No clue what the codes mean, but having another gadget is part of the fun.

As for the reliability of hard disks: have a laptop one in my car PC and did serious offroading for 3 years now without any problem.
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