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Information Overload: CNX P2140 ACPI over USB to control your laptop Hibernate part 2

sean@mp3car.com — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:08:49 +0100

[video:http://vimeo.com/5426012]

Goce from mp3Car takes us through the steps to use your p2140 to hibernate and wake up from hibernation of your laptop.

Materials needed:
-Laptop
-CNX P2140
store.mp3car.com/Carnetix_CNX_P2140_185W_DC_DC_Regulator_p/pwr-026.htm
-PSUmoni
carnetix.com/support.html
-Vehicle installation

Make sure you watch our last video to learn how to wire the p2140 to power your laptop!

Talk about this on our [...]

Open Source Turn by Turn iPhone App using Open Street Maps - Navit

sean@mp3car.com — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:43:38 +0100

[video:http://vimeo.com/5391869]

Navit is an open source turn by turn directions app using the free Open Street Maps.

It is important to note that both the app and the routing engine, along with the map data are all Open Source!

The app is in beta still and can be downloaded using Cydia.
Add this source http://szndvc.dyndns.org/cydia/
and then search for "navit"

You need a planet.bin file of the Open street maps data. [...]

Community Generated Map Data - Passive Vs. Active / Teleatlas Vs. Openstreetmaps

store1@mp3car.com — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:11:05 +0100

There has been a lot of discussion about community generated maps. Cloudmade and openstreetmap have made immense progress, but their big drawback is that it required active user input to have the data be routable or reliable. Teleatlas ha [...]

Via makes ivp-7500 automotive platform? Hmmm. We think Not.

store1@mp3car.com — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:58:59 +0100

Back in march VIA announced the new automotive ivp-7500 (press release ). The announcement got some press from slashgear , crunchgear and has spurred discussions on our forums . Via claims onboard support for Bluetooth and GPS, which in all reality appear to just be add on modules.&n [...]

CNX P2140 ACPI over USB to control your laptop Hibernate

sean@mp3car.com — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:37:40 +0100

[video:http://vimeo.com/5296290]

Goce from mp3Car takes us through the steps to use your p2140 to hibernate and wake up from hibernation of your laptop.

Materials needed:
-Laptop
-CNX P2140
-PSUmoni
-Vehicle installation

Make sure you watch our last video to learn how to wire the p2140 to power your laptop!
Part 2 coming soon.
check it out in our forums

Ford Sync version 3 at Detroit Telematics 2009

sean@mp3car.com — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:51:49 +0100

[video:http://vimeo.com/5186645]

mp3Car's Rob Wray interviews Mark Schunder about Ford Sync Version 3

In this video we take a ride with one of Ford's engineers to give you the technical side, and much less the marketing pitch for Ford Sync.

Ford sync version 3 will give you the ability to speak to your vehicle and get services such as turn by turn directions, sports and weather.

Talk about this in our forums

Green Eco Routing, Navigation and your car computer

store1@mp3car.com — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:56:43 +0100

Some intelligent forward thinking researchers over at Hitachi, Xanavi, and Nissan have collected some data on ecological green routing that claims a 9% fuel cost savings on a test route. This technology is still in its infancy, but this is a perfect example of where a car computer can be used to accelerate development and deployment of technology. Implementing ecorouting w [...]

CarNetix P2140 (part 2) - Power your laptop with Goce from mp3Car

sean@mp3car.com — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:02:34 +0100

[video:http://vimeo.com/5130670]

Goce from mp3Car will walk you through the steps necessary to power your laptop using unregulated ~6~24 volts with only the p2140 and the wire your laptop power adapter came with.

-For this project you need the following materials:
-p2140 and 8pin molex output harness
-Wire strippers 14-22 gauge
-Bench battery
-Multimeter
-Shrink tubing and heat shrink tubing gun OR electrical tape
-Solder gun and no [...]

Electrobit - Linux navigation at Detroit Telematics 2009

sean@mp3car.com — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:01:45 +0100

[video:http://vimeo.com/5128211]

Rob Wray from mp3Car interviews Artur Seidel from Electrobit.
The following questions are addressed:

What is Electrobit?
How do different navigation components work?

If your a developer, what volumes will you need to buy into to develop with Electrobit?

Do you take any traffic feeds right out of the box?

How is Electrobit distinguish itself from the competition?

Talk abo [...]

CarNetix P2140 - Power your laptop with Goce from mp3Car

sean@mp3car.com — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:39:06 +0100

[video:http://vimeo.com/5086806]

Goce from mp3Car will walk you through the steps necessary to power your laptop using only the p2140 and the wire your laptop power adapter came with.

-For this project you need the following materials:
-p2140 and 8pin molex output harness
-Wire strippers 14-22 gauge
-Bench battery
-Multimeter
-Shrink tubing and heat shrink tubing gun OR electrical tape
-Solder gun and non leaded solder
-l [...]

mp3car's Robert Wray interviews GENIVI's board member Joel Hoffman

sean@mp3car.com — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:18:57 +0100

[video:http://vimeo.com/5005551]

mp3car's Robert Wray interviews GENIVI's board member Joel Hoffman in a 2 part interview.
Part 1 of 2 covers:
What is GENIVI, How did it start?
What are the first topics GENIVI will address?
What is the Link between GENIVI, Linux and Moblin?
What are the costs?

[video:http://vimeo.com/5007144]

Part 2 of 2 covers:
What actually is the GENIVI scope?
What areas do y [...]

Telematics Detroit 2009

sean@mp3car.com — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:39:19 +0100

Robert Wray from Mp3car is in Detroit at the “telematics update” show. Our forum users are almost always about 3-5 years ahead of most automotive labs and public displays. This development gap makes these events sometimes feel like big industry group hugs, but every now and then there are a few gems. Want to hear about something specific?

Post [...]

CarNetix P2140: information overload p2

store2@mp3car.com — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:38:58 +0100

[video:http://vimeo.com/4903028]

CNX-P2140 Overview and Installation

Goal

Demonstrate what all the input and output wires (J1 and J2) on the P2140 do and where to connect them. We'll also provide a quick overview of the jumpers that control how your primary and secondary output rails behave.

Learn

Understand where the input and output wires connect to. Learn how to connect the P2140 to a bench battery for testing purposes and measure the output voltages. [...]

Sun Microsystems discusses Cloud Computing: Audio Interview

store1@mp3car.com — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:24:41 +0100

Click to listen to an interview with Rob Wray and Angelo Rajadurai from Sun

"Interestingly enough what we’re seeing is, you know the cloud is maturing really, really quickly and especially in the space of startups where you see all these great innovations happening. Cloud is making life much easier for new companies to come in and pro [...]

Carnetix p2140: Information Overload pt. 1

store2@mp3car.com — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:36:22 +0100

[video:http://www.vimeo.com/4832188]

CNX-P2140 Overview and Installation

Goal

How to quickly wire and configure the P2140.

Equipment

Screw driver, electrical tape, multimeter (optional), wire [...]

The future of car computing

store1@mp3car.com — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:06:48 +0100

If you don't have quicktime you cand download The future of car computing.mp3

Hi my name is Robert Wray from Mp3car. Throughout the summer we are going to dive deeper into the future of mobile computing, car computing and telematics with a series of video blogs exploring new technology and interviews with leaders in the space.

Based on our activity in the community, our work with automakers, aftermarket, commun [...]

Intel D945GCLF2D motherboard

sean@mp3car.com — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:01:33 +0100

Some forum members were already talking about this mobo but I thought I would shine some light on the subject. I had a chance to play a little bit with it and see if it's working etc.

Form factor Mini-ITX /micro-ATX compatible

Processor Integrated Intel® Atom™ processor 330 with a 533 MHz system bus

* One 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) [...]

Best of mp3Car 5/14/09

store@mp3car.com — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:03:29 +0100

Best of Mp3car.com community innovation and development

Ride Runner

The community is helping DocBreezy bring a sleek new skin, named '506' to Ride Runner . by DocBreezy. Picture: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/imagehosting/14883749a87d9096277.png In addition to suggestions and beta testing, Treetop, Thunderstick, blk02si, Sonicxtacy02, GizmoQ, carputer1are lending a hand with advice and code support to bring it along.

506 also [...]

New 7" DVI touchscreen by lilliput

sean@mp3car.com — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:39:21 +0100

[video:http://vimeo.com/4617445]

Lilliput is getting ready to release their new 7" touchscreen that has native DVI and component digital out. Previous models such as the 629 had only VGA, Composite and S-Video.

What is great about this monitor is that it's now extra versatile. They left the pigtail plug on the monitor and just added the extra DVI and component cables. That means you have the option to output to 5 different video sources, DVI, VGA, [...]

Hypermiling for cheap using iPhone

sean@mp3car.com — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:35:37 +0100

[video:http://vimeo.com/4520911]

You don't need an expensive hybrid vehicle or car computer to get the most miles per gallon out of your car. Hypermiling is a set of techniques that maximize your MPG.

Some common techniques are:
Don't drive aggressively
Don't go over the speed limit
Avoid traffic
Avoid coming to a complete stop
Try to accelerate as slowly as possible
Using neutral when going down hills