Thread: My Chevy Tahoe and carputer

Cool man, sometimes text onscreen can be cornfusing.

Your replying from your truck?
What kind of connection are you using? Cellphone?

Have you guys seen this:

http://www.kvh.com/tracvision/A5/index.asp

as for me Reggie, I just got my stereo sounding decent and I need to score a digi camera to post some pics.
As for MP3s right now Im just using an Archos Studio Jukebox 10.
But im collecting up parts for my carputer.
Ive got almost everything except the 2 biggies, DC-DC power supply and Touchscreen, Im thinking Ill probably get that In-Das 7" Touchscreen with VGA from Digital WW, but thats alot of cash so Im waiting.

Right now Ive got an Athlon 1.1GHZ sitting here with 384MB ram, 40 gig hard drive and a Soundblaster card. 64Meg Geforce PCI with Svideo and Composite out.

Ill have GPS of course, and as a bonus, Im hooking up my computer-Controlled Shortwave Radio Tuner, although I dont expect much performance out of that while moving.

One cool thing im planning on is a USB hub in the dash so I can plug my Archos Jukebox in and have a spare 10GB of music, along with the ability to swop out songs off the carputer and have unlimited portibility.

Anyways. Its all money right???

~Mongrat

Hey man that sounds nice, I like the USB hub idea. That sounds like another project . How do you like that Jukebox? I'm using Media Engine and I'm very happy with it. I can't wait untill it's complete. Also I'm using 802.11 from outside my house. I wish I could go further, but the prices for things like that is up there. That TracVision looks promising, winder if it will have internet support or mabe it does.

Reggie

The Archos Jukebox is actually a handheld walkman-type player.
The computer software for it is called Musicmatch, which seems pretty nice and has skins for it, but the Music Library feature is a little wierd, It doesent like to list different albums seperately.
Im still tryin to figure it out.

~Mongrat

oh yeah, that Satellite thing will have internet, and fast too, I think it will be nearly as fast as an DSL connection, its somthing like 500K downstream......

~Mong

Originally posted by reggiek945
I understand what you guys are saying; it’s not just in there to be stolen. I have a Compustar alarm system with pager, that was the first thing I had installed in my car after I got the rims. There are three Police officers in my area alone, one next door. I know that anyone can steal your car at anytime but they sure are going to have to try hard to get mine and if they do it was meant to be. I thought this site was for anyone to post the carputers and get some sound advice. Looks like everyone wants to just down me for some reason. Maybe I'm taking this the wrong way but read the post on this site and you tell me,

Reggie

You're taking my post the wrong way for sure. You do have nice stuff... but FYI. I was parked next to a patrol car when my first system was stolen.