Peugeot 205 install with a portrait LCD (finally)

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04-28-2004, 06:39 AM
MikeHunt79

Peugeot 205 install with a portrait LCD (finally)

I havent been here in a long time, since I've been doing this for my final year project. See the site in my sig for a more detailed description and a day by day log book style account of the installation. There's absolutely tons of annotated installation pics on the site.

Here's a preview:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/actions...4/DSCN1568.JPG

Car:
Peugeot 205

Stereo:
Headunitless - directly wired to amp

Computer:
Celeron 500Mhz CPU
Aaeon SBC-675 Embedded motherboard with onboard LCD controller
Sharp LQ104V1DG11 640x480 LCD screen in portrait mode
TDK CXA-0350 Inverter
12" Touchnote serial touchscreen overlay
M-Audio Sonica USB soundcard
Seaquest 30Gb Hard disk containing around 10,000 OGGs
64Mb RAM
Modified DC-DC PSU based on the Sproggy design

Let us know what you guys think.
04-28-2004, 07:48 AM
Jamez_Warner

ah - cool idea ! love to see this posted on digital-car.co.uk if you can with a built diary :)
how do the media players cope with portrait?
James
04-28-2004, 09:02 AM
PORTUGAL

Coolllllll
Nice work man.
04-28-2004, 09:31 AM
Defiler

How do movies look on it or do you not play movies? I def. love the concept as it's different and works. I'm all for that. :D
04-28-2004, 09:46 AM
Johnson

Looks like a bombs gone off ....
04-28-2004, 11:49 AM
gutterslide

Ingenious!

Not the cleanest install, but your almost-completely-from-scratch fabrication and custom winamp skin more than make up for it.

I was going to use a printer cable in one of my projects recently, but i needed more than 25 connections. tracking down which wire is connected to each pin is a real pain in the ***.

Good job.
04-29-2004, 07:02 PM
MikeHunt79

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jamez_Warner

ah - cool idea ! love to see this posted on digital-car.co.uk if you can with a built diary :)
how do the media players cope with portrait?
James

I can post in a day or so once I've given my dissertation in, since I'll have my life back then. :) As for media players and portrait, the default winamp 5 skin is OK at 480x640, but I like my Winamp skin more :D It should be ready for release soon.

Quote:

Originally Posted by PORTUGAL

Coolllllll
Nice work man.

Thanx! I'm glad u like it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Defiler

How do movies look on it or do you not play movies? I def. love the concept as it's different and works. I'm all for that. :D

I tried an MPEG to see how it looks, and it looks fine. There are always black borders at the top and bottom, but that's due to it being portrait. :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Johnson

Looks like a bombs gone off ....

Haha, your not the first one to say that. ;) I'm eventually going to mount the whole PC base unit in the dash, so all that will be visible is the screen. I can't do it right now tho since I'm having cooling problems. :(

Quote:

Originally Posted by gutterslide

Ingenious!

Not the cleanest install, but your almost-completely-from-scratch fabrication and custom winamp skin more than make up for it.

I was going to use a printer cable in one of my projects recently, but i needed more than 25 connections. tracking down which wire is connected to each pin is a real pain in the ***.

Good job.

Believe it it or not, I've made that 25 core LCD cable THREE times, each time a tiny bit shorter, each time the picture getting slightly better. :eek: It all takes time tho, I've lost count of the hours I've put into this... and it's still not completely finished, but then that's half the fun. :)