On-board PC (was: console)

From: Jason Bleazard (dml@bleazard.net)
Date: Mon Mar 14 2005 - 14:38:48 EST


On Mon, March 14, 2005 1:27 pm, Josh Battles said:
>
> With a center console though, I'm looking for something that'll replace
> the
> bottom portion of my stock armrest. I'm building it to house a 7" wide
> touchscreen and a car computer. I've done a ton of research and there are
> software pieces out there that'll feed realtime OBDII data into graphs and
> stuff so that you can keep track of what your vehicle is doing, as well as
> track it in realtime on a map via GPS. There's tons of cool stuff to do
> out there.

OK, now I'm intrigued. Jon and I talked about something similar a number
of years ago, but never really came up with a fantastic solution. Of
course, hardware has gotten considerably smaller since then.

What's the preferred hardware solution like for an on-board PC? I'm
guessing you'd probably start with a regular power supply, micro ATX
motherboard, maybe a laptop hard drive, and an LCD panel of course. Do
you house it in a micro computer case, or does the console effectively
become the case? Do you have any provisions for a keyboard?

Sounds like a cool project.

-- 
Jason Bleazard  http://www.bleazard.net  Burlington, Ontario
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