Thread: Complete bolt in Screen/CPU/HD/PS - indash

Well I'm actually still looking around for the HQCT. I will probably just buy it form the mp3car store. I was hoping to find a member in the classifieds with one but so far no luck. I'm going on vacation to colorado to do some boarding, leaving on thursday and returning on tuesday. St. Pattys celebration with slippery inclines When I return I most likely order it. Here are the pics of the hacked up mouse you are looking for

HQCT module ordered from the Mp3car store tonight. Almost forgot what FM/AM is like. Also bought a IDE > USB adaptor and a longer xenarc lcd ribbon cable. Parts will be here this week!!!

Again the carPC, although running perfect, will be pulled for major hardware and software updates. I designed an entire new skin from scratch for this setup and hopefully will be using that too. A new embedded OS is going to be deployed on the flash drive with some updates to use flash (software) and to be able to connect to my V3c phone. Stay tuned for more hardware hotness and lots of pix. . .


Also Im thinking about trying out the PSU200 power supply since i don't use an ignition power scheme any more. Smaller form factor, less wires and MORE POWER Hopefully someone who has used this supply can chime in to let me know if its an ok supply or not.

HQCT module is here. I've been reading a lot of information on it hope to have it up and running soon. I will take some more pics and the carPC will be pulled from the stang in the next couple days to make a mounting bracket and start the software. Here is a crappy phone pic of my new module.

Sneak peek...

The HQCT module is complete !!!

Im so glad it came together relatively pain free and it works really good. Stations are clear and RDS info works great. Here are a couple pics I took (with my V3c again) of the mounting of the module. It ended up vertical Right above the CF card. Also is a screen cap of Luc's tuner program, this essentially is what RR is controlling. This is the business end or backend of the radio module. If anyone is wondering about hooking up the HQCT you need to make a USB header > USB header cable, you need a CD_AUDIO cable, and you need Metra antenna adaptor 40EU20. I bought it at circuit city.

Im looking forward to some morning talk, its been over a year since ive had fm/am in the car lol. But don't worry I have not forgot about my media drive, thats also about to be packed with an arsenal of new albums.

Wow that looks great, I didnt think they were that far along with its progress. I still thought it was a pain to get working, I might have to consider this finally.

Yeah the HQCT really is not that bad to work with. I guess I fall under the "advanced hobbyist only" category.

Hardware has been running great and solid for awhile now. Love the embedded OS. So i decided to turn my efforts to the software side of things and am near completing coding my own RR skin for this setup. Its filed under RR>skins shock skin - preview if anyone wants to check it out.

Also I've sold 4 more chassis in the last 2 weeks and I've been adding radius corners to the sharp edges. Cutting them on the router yields show quality results!

The hardware is listed under my user name, carpc specs. I am still successfully using the M2-ATX. I've never really had any problems at all with it. In fact I bought 2 of them and both are still running strong. I ended up selling the second to my stepbrother who is pushing a full atx athlon with it. As long as you don't overload one of the rails and have a clean primary connection It works great.