Building an Eee PC-based carputer – take 2

It’s been a few months since I’ve seen a good hack for cramming an Eee PC into an automobile dashboard. Fortunately, another Russian hacker who has what I can only assume are some mad skills and way too much time on his hands, has posted an article showing exactly how to take a 7 inch Eee PC apart and turn it into a carputer that hooks into an auto stereo system and even acts as a graphic equalizer.

The finished product is an auto computer with 1GB of RAM, 4GB of built in storage plus an 8GB SDHC card, a 7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display, Bluetooth, a slot-loading DVD-RW drive, GPS, 5.1 channel audio, a touschreen, and a boatload of USB adapters that string the whole thing together. All in all, I dare say this guy’s car probably has more features than the average desktop PC. Plus, you know, you can drive it places.

Posted on Monday, January 12th, 2009, 5:46 pm by Brad Linder

http://www.mdj.us/ MDJUS

LOL, holy crap, you got it right… mad skills indeed. It would be my luck some jerkwad would pry it out of my dash the day after I finished the install.
aehouseman

My hat is off to the guy.

About 16 – 17 years ago, when I was a teenager, I took apart and hooked up a tape recorder inside the dash of my pickup with appropriate switches to be able to record songs off the radio when I liked them.
I had a switch and 4 buttons on the dash, and the opening for the cassette.

It actually looked pretty good, but of course that was a teenagers opinion.

That is how we got songs in the old days before Napster.
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That definitely won't be making it onto the DIY channel anytime soon!
BoloMKXXVIII

Nice to see people take on projects like this and do it right. I wish I had that kind of time so I could see what kind of project I could accomplish. Don't think I could out do this one though.
http://www.chadwsmith.com/ Chad78

“y0u can drive it places”? Did you type this on a netbo0k?
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damn ! that hack is way to cool man !
just waiting here for my touchscreen to arrive..
but this would be a nice mod for my car… meaby add a small wireless keyboard with touchpad… and there you would have a perfect carputer.. music + video + really awesome wardriving kit
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