Post by cibrlx01 on Mar 23, 2005 5:36:48 GMT -5
i just found some laptops of mine...
a year ago i bought 3 ibm thinkpad's (p2 333mhz; 128megram; built in mouse/keyboard, usb and thats it, no lcd's cd drives or battery's)
i already had powersupplies and some old batteries in the closet that i would "hack" into them; so i figured what the hey, ill figure something out w/ em and bought a couple for me and a friend...(i ended up w/ 3 of them)
one of my ideas was a carputer...
i was cleaning out my closet and found them
so now since i have this
i can start playing around getting them installed correctly
software...OS, check out the software that normal carputers run, possibly check out voice recognition software (STT Speach to Text) which might be difficult to implement because of my car being convertible and all the background noise that i will get and TTS (text to speech)
also i plan to pipe some music from the carputer to the deck and install a strong wirless antenna so i will have more access to the net
basicly...i will have a carputer for 30 bucks and the cost of the lcd, which might be a bit more expensive
heres some pics of actual unit i will be working with
a year ago i bought 3 ibm thinkpad's (p2 333mhz; 128megram; built in mouse/keyboard, usb and thats it, no lcd's cd drives or battery's)
i already had powersupplies and some old batteries in the closet that i would "hack" into them; so i figured what the hey, ill figure something out w/ em and bought a couple for me and a friend...(i ended up w/ 3 of them)
one of my ideas was a carputer...
i was cleaning out my closet and found them
so now since i have this
i can start playing around getting them installed correctly
software...OS, check out the software that normal carputers run, possibly check out voice recognition software (STT Speach to Text) which might be difficult to implement because of my car being convertible and all the background noise that i will get and TTS (text to speech)
also i plan to pipe some music from the carputer to the deck and install a strong wirless antenna so i will have more access to the net
basicly...i will have a carputer for 30 bucks
and the cost of the lcd, which might be a bit more expensiveheres some pics of actual unit i will be working with
you'll have to get us pics of the install when you get the lcd screen 
