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well just a little update after living with the usb dvd drive
i decided that it was shite! was taking 10mins+ to see the drive when running thorough the hub.
the hub its self is being powered by the pc power supply (5v dc) and has bluetooth already in it, so ive got 8 usb 2.0 ports now

hub:


so ive gone done the ide cable route and mounted the drive in
the glove box with the rest of the gubins. runs exelently now instant from start up, again this is being powered from the psu.
drive:





its getting a little tight in there now! need to think about cooling and air flow but temps are still running fine for now.

ive used the secondary fuse box as a place to stash my buletooth gps reciver (for when i finally get a sat nav programe working!!! ) and my wifi dongle
Stash:


also got rid of the fm modulator now as ive upgraded my head unit to something more powerfull and it has aux input. perfect sound out of it now!

head unit:


o yea and a still need to fit a a kill swith for the pc! as when it crash's (all be it quite infequently) its a pain to disconnect the battery! lol

Lookin good. All stashed away nicely.

How hot does it actually get?

Hows the bluetooth GPS work?

its just a gps reciver that insted of using usb to send signal it transmits via bluetooth. the only reason im using it, is that i already had one from an old phne i had with sat nav

brill topic m8;) may do this meself

cheers mate, if ur gonna do it your self i would start with the most expensive part the screen

Link to screen These are by far the best and most reliable screen, and its a uk supplyer with loads of spares.

not cheap but well work the money imho, as the cheap screen i got overheats after about 2 hours use and the thouch function stops working when its too hot!

cheers bud

better job then mine i used at USC

lol good effort, i like the oem touch there wheels!!

on a serious note the a lot of ppl are doing it with laptops, they just hack off the screen and wire in a power supply, and use a touchscreen like mine. all the parts ive use are essentailly laptop parts anway.

p.s. did u have sat nav on ur laptop? is so delatils please

sorry mate I used my tomtom

sat nav now up and running! after months of trying!
using a program that was only ment as a demo.
its called igo 8, its written by nav n go. great program with 3d building and lane assist. will post up some screen shots when i can be arsed!

interesting link

for any one how wants to try this out have a look, this is just the bare programe tho, no buildings, lane assist.
the problem im having at the moment is that its using a big chunk of the cpu! hitting 100% cpu usage often when this programe is running. no caused me any mp3 playback issues yet but im trying to find a way to cut the cpu usage.
any way enough of my bable! here are some picsand vid!

[youtube]kiLLSTyV01E[/youtube]

finally got it sorted lol

That program looks spot on, how you going to get cpu usage down?

is there an option to decrease the visual quality?

after a bit of digging round in the setting file ive figured out how to turn down the visual quality! so it all runs smoothly now!

just found a tiny keyboard aswell linky
i think it will sit perfectly under the drivers seat