August Mid Atlantic Mp3car Meetup

**Fiberoptic** · 07-23-2009, 10:16 AM

Update - 2 new headliner names for the event added today

· Cabe Sipes, Audio guru from MTV's "Pimp My Ride" and OLN's "Rock The Boat"
· RevFE lead developer

Get a ticket here, if you don't have one.
http://www.mp3car.com/index.php/210-...ar-meetup.html

**Fiberoptic** · 07-27-2009, 10:07 AM

It looks like we have 3 more vendors signing on later this week and several people flying or driving in from all over the country.

I think we are going to send an e-mail to everyone in the area who has bought from our store in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, DC, Delaware, West Virginia, New York and North Carolina to invite them out for a free BBQ with the mp3car team and their partners.

We are also going to do a prize pack for the best cars. The rules haven't been announced yet, but some items in the prize pack will be A Lilliput DVI monitor (not publicly available yet), Centrafuse, Scantool, other car computing hardware, mp3car t-shirts and general swagage.

If you haven't signed up for a free ticket, please do so now.

**Fiberoptic** · 07-28-2009, 02:43 PM

We are excited to welcome three new atendees to our August waterfront event in Baltimore.
Scantool - OBD, engine diagnostic, and scan tool experts
Mo-co-so.com - Philadelphia based Mini-ITX store
Westminister Speed And Sound - Mobile electronics and performace experts, expereienced car computer installers.
Meetup Contest: The best cars at the event will get prize packs donated by Centrafuse, Scantool, Lilliput, Mo-co-so and mp3Car. Details will be anounced later in the week. Talk about this on our forums.
Links to get a free ticket and more information are here.

**Fiberoptic** · 07-28-2009, 05:27 PM

If you are coming to this event, please give us feedback on the speaker series which we have started. More people will be announced soon.

Mp3car Waterfront Event - Speaker Series - Mark Miller

**Fiberoptic** · 07-30-2009, 10:45 AM

Attendees added
Prizes Added
Speakers added
Slight times changes
Links to attendees added

**2k1Toaster** · 07-30-2009, 11:42 AM

I've only seen pimp-my-ride once (and that was enough

), but do they have a "tech" guy or at least the guy that does all the crazy screens or wirings? Or is that who the audio guy is? Just wondering...

**Fiberoptic** · 07-30-2009, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by 2k1Toaster

I've only seen pimp-my-ride once (and that was enough

), but do they have a "tech" guy or at least the guy that does all the crazy screens or wirings? Or is that who the audio guy is? Just wondering...

I think Cabe did a lot of the tech stuff. He installed centrafuse on Rock the Boat. Mark miller will also be a great technical reasource. He has done tons of car comptuer installs as well.

**CabeSipes** · 08-02-2009, 09:04 AM

Whos Cabe Spies? He's a speaker.........Oh, thats me. You mispelled my name

Yes I am the one that put in all the "crazy" screens and the audio systems. Did quite a few computers in the cars and on the boats but they never got any real airtime. It takes to much time to show all the things a computer can do so they usually just got cut out on the editing floor. Plus 90% of the general public wouldnt have a clue as to what we were talking about. Most people dont know how cool it is and convenient it is to have a computer setup in there vehicle.

Anyway if your wanting to know if I'm "techy" you could say that. I have been building cars for 18 years and if its DC voltage I have probably cut it up took it apart and put it where it wasnt supposed to go.

**2k1Toaster** · 08-02-2009, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by CabeSipes

Whos Cabe Spies? He's a speaker.........Oh, thats me. You mispelled my name

Yes I am the one that put in all the "crazy" screens and the audio systems. Did quite a few computers in the cars and on the boats but they never got any real airtime. It takes to much time to show all the things a computer can do so they usually just got cut out on the editing floor. Plus 90% of the general public wouldnt have a clue as to what we were talking about. Most people dont know how cool it is and convenient it is to have a computer setup in there vehicle.

Anyway if your wanting to know if I'm "techy" you could say that. I have been building cars for 18 years and if its DC voltage I have probably cut it up took it apart and put it where it wasnt supposed to go.

Cool.

You should get them to put that on the air! Maybe a geek minute or something where it is all tech stuff and not "look at this screen I put in the trunk so nobody can see along with the sub that will rattle the car apart...". I might watch clips of those.

**CabeSipes** · 08-03-2009, 07:40 AM

Ya I hear that all the time but in there defense the age group or "demographic" for the show was 12 to 18 yrs. old. Thats why they had us all talk like someone was squeezing our nuts. It makes kids more at ease than listening to a bunch of deep voiced mechanics. Thats also why we never showed anything to technical, it was all visually impressive and made people talk which is why the show was popular. Even if you made fun of the show you were still talking about it. Publicity is publicity, good or bad.

P.S.-I only used the smiley cause I thought the bouncing boobs were cool. LOL