Carputer install

[DoughtCom]

A few more notes with the added pics. The keyboard fits PERFECTLY in the little bay on the DS door, so you can just put it in there when not using it. The external hard drive is a great way to bring new music to your car. Just put it in your pocket or whatever copy the stuff to it and plug it in, no more burning CD's.

Here's some pics.
http://www.thedoughtcom.com/images/carputer/carputer_dash.jpg
http://www.thedoughtcom.com/images/carputer/carputer_rearmount.jpg
http://www.thedoughtcom.com/images/carputer/carputer_flash.jpg
http://www.thedoughtcom.com/images/carputer/carputer_noflash.jpg
http://www.thedoughtcom.com/images/carputer/carputer_keyboard.jpg
http://www.thedoughtcom.com/images/carputer/carputer_switch.jpg

[Matt D.]

Very nice, I never thought of using a laptop for a carputer. Where did you put the laptop and hard drive?

[User Name]

Very nice, I never thought of using a laptop for a carputer. Where did you put the laptop and hard drive?

x2


Nerd alert.

[A//// Guy]

Sweet!

Are you worried about the monitor being stolen?

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

That's fucking sweet. I wanna hook one of these up someday.

[Onefast99gsx]

Hey, good job! Can you please post some pics of where you put the laptop?

I'm an IT guy at work and we got all kinds of old PIII laptops that would be perfect for this.

[scheides]

What keyboard did you use? One with backlit keys would be ideal, I think :)

Looks pretty clean man, I'm impressed! We have about 10 of those liliput screens hanging around my office, I should nab one and do something like this. Does tinyXP support RDC? Let's remote tune that bad boy! ;)

[User Name]

Looks pretty clean man, I'm impressed! We have about 10 of those liliput screens hanging around my office, I should nab one and do something like this. Does tinyXP support RDC? Let's remote tune that bad boy! ;)


Now that is a great idea!

[DoughtCom]

I used the brand new Apple Bluetooth Keyboard, it works REALLY well and fits perfectly in the door out of sight when I'm not using it.

I'll take some pics of the laptop tonight. It's just basically sitting there under the seat with velcro on the bottom, so that the velcro sticks to the stock carpet. I drive VERY fast and it doesn't move, sticks very well! For 2 dollars I think I'm happy for the mounting. One thing to note for people that eat/drink in their car a lot or have messy significant others it might get wet down there (that's what she said) but I don't think it'll be a big issue.

Yeah the PC uses RDC yo, lets tune it up! Just let me know when you wanna do it, I'm tinting the windows tonight.

Peace!
-Shawn