Re: mp3 players in Daks Was: Booted the Console

From: Robert Howe (robbii@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue Jun 08 1999 - 22:29:58 EDT


How are you all doing the video for this little project?

Robert Howe
'95 V6 4x4 5-Spd
Bone Stock. :(
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 6:14 PM
Subject: DML: mp3 players in Daks Was: Booted the Console

>At 07:31 PM 6/8/99 , you wrote:
>>Robert Howe wrote:
>>>
>>> No big deal... I have been contemplating a home-made MP3 player for my
>>> truck.. and to find room for the PC-Boards I need a console, or some
tricky
>>> sheet metal work under the seats...so if it's intact and you want to
sell it
>>> contact me... if I like the price, we'll work somehting out. :)
>[...]
>>Speaking of MP3 players in vehicles, a friend passed me the following
>>site by ICQ the other day. Sounds good to me - just can't afford the $$$
>>right now.
>>www.empeg.com
>>
>>And it'd definitely be the easiest route...
>
>
> Yep, that's a pretty cool little unit. :-) Another good site
>(especially if you're planning on building an mp3 player for your vehicle)
>is www.mp3car.com. I'm currently building an mp3 player for my '96 Dak.
>I've got most of the system up and running in my house; I still have to put
>it in the truck and do some more building and tweaking. (I haven't put the
>LCD screen together yet.) Its a win95/linux dual boot. I wrote a custom X
>app for the mp3 player (under linux). Its got 95 so I can use Streets USA
>and my OBD-II diagnostics software. I'm planning on documenting the
>install and putting it up on the DML home page, so if anyone else wants to
>do the same, maybe that'll help you to see what's involved. I was hoping
>to be able to put it under the club cab seats, but there just isn't enough
>room there. So, I'm going to remove one of the seats and build an
>enclosure. I'll make my software available too, in case anyone is
>interested in using it. Mebbe I'll make it DML specific with some
>background graphics or something. :-)
>
> -Jon-
>
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