Thought i would make my first post on here a good one!

Here is the progress of the CarPC for the xB.

Parts List:

CarPC
M.B.- VIA EN15000 1.5GHZ 533FSB
Memory - 1GB Corsair DDR2 533Mhz
H.D. - 80GB 2.5" Hitachi SATA
Sound Card - Creative USB Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX
Power Supply - M2-ATX 160W Intelligent DC-DC PSU
GPS - GlobalSat BU-353 USB GPS Reciever
Monitor - Lillput 2008 7'' Transflective LED Backlit Sunlight Readable Touchscreen Monitor
NIC Card - Trendnet 802.11g Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter
Case - VoomPC-2 CarPC Enclosure
DVD Drive - Liteon SLW831S Slim Line Slot Load DVD+R Dual Layer Burner
OS - Windows XP
Front End - Streetdeck

Car Audio
Amp - Elemental Design Nine.4
Fuse - 200A Tsunami
Distribution Blocks - Tsunami
Wiring - Elemental Design 4gauge

This post was last modified: 09-05-2008 12:04 PM by j3st3r.

Initial Pictures


Some of the components




Tsunami Components





Some of the Elemental Designs Wiring




Nine.4 Amp




Test "vehicle".....lol




Testing everything on the bench






Sound Card, hooked up to the AMP




GPS receiver chilling on the vice




USB Wireless card....WORKS AWESOME!!




Grand scheme of things




Time to clean up the wiring




Wiring cleaned up!




Time to put it into the Case






Testing everything with the case buttoned up!!




Testing the system out on one of my favorite sites!!




Next Videos!

Videos
Videos:

Part 1



Part 2
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Part 3
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Some more updates....should have it all buttoned up tomorrow!!



Switches Mounted


Space between bottom 2 switches will have a led between them, for the pc





Amp and Crossovers Wired, tomorrow will get it organized, and tidy


Negative distribution block mounted and wired









Way to many projects going on at once...anger:


Tomorrow will be molding the screen into the factory bezel!

This post was last modified: 09-05-2008 12:08 PM by j3st3r.

nice first post j3st3r welcome to the site please introduce yourself and post some pics of your ride

Done and posted here:
http://www.xbsite.com/forum/hello-there-...l#pid27570

Dizamn, now thats a setup. I came extremely close to putting in a custom carputer w/ Lilliput screen but then I'd never leave the box and would probably even try posting on here while driving, lol. Excellent setup you've put together, seems like you've done this before or at least you make it look so easy w/ the pics. Love the paint job too.

Very nice setup and welcome. I will be installing a PC in my car by the end of the year. I currently have a laptop mounted on my on custom stand. I was thinking about going mac mini and just hiding the mug, then mounting a detachable 15" lcd screen to the dash. I'm all for the sexiness of installs, but I LOVE how you can have something installed and people NOT know about it. That just gets me every time

looks like alot of work.
man i just can't get over the purple, its bangin!

Brian is an electrical engineer and he's OCD...his shit is always perfection. I'm really diggin' the switchs on the dash.

I WANNANOTHER INSTALL DAY BEFORE I GRADUATE AND MOVE AWAY DAMMIT! lol

am not.......wait..do those letters look evenly spaced to you.....

This post was last modified: 09-11-2008 05:26 PM by j3st3r.

More updates.....BIG THANKS to Patrick(PEEJ) for helping me out with his carpentry skills!!!















Carpet matches PERFECT!!!


I cut the bottom of the touchscreen housing off to remote mount the buttons




Early stages of molding in the screen, and so far coming out REALLY GOOD




As you can see in the pictures cut the bottom off the screen that houses the buttons, then cut a notch in piece on the bezel to mount the buttons roughly perpendicular to the screen!

dude, you are way more ballsy that me, i would never cut up a perfectly good piece of equipment. in anycase im so stoked to see the final project!

This was actually a spare console I had so no worries or......balls required!!