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Reply With QuoteI don't believe you can get 4" VGA screens, you may be able to find 5.3" NTSC/PAL screens though, a friend of mine used to have one.
I am thinking of undertaking an ambitious project: turning a PSP into a secondary media display/control for my car pc.
The goal is to take a broken PSP, and remove all the unneeded parts, such as battery, UMD, broken display, etc.
Then un-solder the buttons from their contacts on the board, and wire them up to a usb game controller to use the buttons on the front of the PSP for dedicated media control input.
The Logitech controller has six buttons, and four trigger buttons, along with a D-pad, and two analogs with buttons. The PSP has 11 buttons, a D-pad, and two triggers, and the single analog.
So there are enough buttons to go around. The only hang up I have, and I wont know until trying, is weather or not the analog stick will work hooked up to the Logitech controller.
Then i need to find a four inch vga screen, and put it in place of the PSP screen, unless someone knows of a way to convert the PSP screen to a VGA controller board.
The last step would be to fabricate this right into my dash.
Any suggestions on a screen?
Any insight on the analog joystick?
Thanks.
I don't believe you can get 4" VGA screens, you may be able to find 5.3" NTSC/PAL screens though, a friend of mine used to have one.
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Just a shame I can't justify a carpc to use it on anymore.
I have put a thought or two on this subject. The best/easiest solution would be to mod a working psp and use it has a remote desktop for your carpc. I did have some links somewhere. I need to do some more research but it does seem easier that hacking up a perfectly good psp.
You can get replacement screens for the psp... Cant remember how much.
I do not have a lot of experience with remote desktop, but OpenMobile supports multiple independent monitors, so this would have to show up as its own monitor, or a secondary monitor on the system. Also, by going that route, you will not have all the functionality of all the available buttons on the PSP face. I would never consider hacking up a perfectly good PSP, I plan to purchase a broken one on ebay, and use that for the mod.
Well then whats the point of the psp?
I have toyed with the idea of using a joystick and a few secondary displays. To make a long story short and to the point, I was going to take a joy stick take it apart and graph it into the steering wheel. I was going to make a couple triggers, maybe a thumb stick or two out of the "pods?" (correction please). I haven't had that much time to look into it though most of it looks do able after looking at a naked joystick.
The screen is gonna be rough to find that small. Like I said before you can get replacement screens but if only you had a controller or something to make it take vga, then it would be a question of if you could get a pc to display that low of a res. a psp is what 320x??? So thats another problem. Or even if you got the little screen to take rca your still stuck with a low res. So would it be worth all that effort? I've looked for small lcd screens for a minute or two and you can find some small screens that would pull off a killer install. Though not as small, better in enough ways to justify the increase of size. IMOA.
the basic idea with using the PSP is the layout of the buttons, and the overall design of the psp, i think it looks very slick, and thought it would make an awesome interface built into my dash
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