Andlid Mini-PC Carputer CarPC Build Thread

[andlid]

Well...

 

I've decided to finally get going with my carputer build for my Z.

 

Ordered a screen a long long time ago and it finally arrived today after paying customs and other administrative charges, turned out it's not a touch screen version. Thank you Mr China seller for hiding that fact very well

 

Ordered a new one from a UK fleebay seller just now *guess the old one can be used as a video screen for the little one in the car, was thinking I could hook up the Desire HD to it with some vids for travelling longer distances. Or replace the current DIN unit and have two monitors in the Z... (final plan will have to wait it seems)

 

So current kit:

 

Motherboard:

AT4NM10-I Atom D410 (Single-core) BGA559 (on Board) Chipset Intel Memory 2DDR2 DDR2 800/667 4.0G Onboard VGA Y 256 Graphics Slot N SB SATA

PSU

12V 150W 24Pin DC-DC ATX Mini ITX Car PC Power Supply

http://i.ebayimg.com/05/!B28pOqQEGk~$(KGrHqIOKiQE)7lSG2BcBMkcEnjCTg~~_12.JPG

Memory

Whatever memory DDR2 type that I have in boxes at home (probably will go for 4GB just to be cool, not that I'll need more then 2GB)

Network

ZyXEL NWD2105 150Mbps 802.11n Ultra Compact Wireless USB2.0 Adapter

Bluetooth

Have a usb dongle here somewhere

Keyboard

Have a bluetooth keyboard here in a box somewhere

Screen

Lilliput 7" 669 669GL Touch Screen HDMI DVI VGA Monitor

Computer box

not fully decided yet what to go for here, can get a 'free' box to host my mdk easily enough but think I'll go down the route of making a board out of plastic and mold it a bit. I'm planning on using the cubby behind the passenger seat as the full enclosure.

Fans

Planning on using a few 12v computer fans to cool the setup, have a box somewhere

O/S

Not decided fully what to go for but it will be Windows, possible WinXP but looking at Win7 with a possible dual boot into Android.

 

I'm planning on hooking the car up to some battery source when parked at the house and have the system active so I an 'dropbox' files to and from easily enough. Aslo good for 'tuning' the setup while remoting in from the comfortable sofa

 

More to come.

 

Any input gladly taken.

[andlid]

Update to spec;

 

Just had to get some more stuff

 

Planning on using Centrafuse, just looking to see if it does all I want first.

 

Camera

Got two of these:

RearView Reversing Camera NightVision Waterproof+5MLead

And hopefully will win this one:

 

So plan is to use one facing forward and one facing rear. Need to figure out if I can have this easily activated when needed now.

[andlid]

got one of these too

[Husky]

whats this

 

[andlid]

whats this

 

It's to hook up the cameras to the PC (won it btw) 7£

[Husky]

ah makes sense now

[Keyser]

This from the guy that posted "all that wiring looks scary"

 

Looking good mate

 

Keep us updated, be intresting to what it comes out like.

[andlid]

This from the guy that posted "all that wiring looks scary"

 

Looking good mate

 

Keep us updated, be intresting to what it comes out like.

I know, will be interesting to see where this leads me

 

Will keep the cabling to a minimum and slicing, looking into different power options for the screen now... might even go down the route of a female cigarette lighter to give it power Already have some leads coming in from the engine room for the vacuum hose and power for the boost solenoid so that'll be fine, not to happy about having to rip the interior out though to mount the screen in the cubby though. Need to do the bose hack too