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thermoptic · 11-06-2007, 01:09 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by bl3nd3r

Thermoptic. I hope you have survived the busy month at work and look forward to your progress on this over the next few weeks. What exactly do you mean by having to design your own interposer?

I am working on putting a carputer in a 2001 Lincoln LS and am hoping that either the 6 or 8 will fit into the car. Once I get the dash kit in for the car I am going to take a look and see if it will fit and if this is a viable solution.

Hey bl3nd3r, I'm hanging in there. Getting caught up on e-mail, and addressing other important interrupts: Half-Life 2: Ep 2, Halo 3,

The real world can really get in the way of hobbies...

By interposer, I mean a hardware adapter that will mate the LCD panel to the IR touchscreen, and in turn to the bezel. This will be either metal or plastic. Since I have all the detailed drawing dimensions from the various specs, I could leverage rapid prototype house such as eMachineShop or protocase. This way others could leverage my work if they opt for this NEC and IR touchscreen combination. My original goal was to assemble a kit for the store, but the 8.4" LCD size and IR TS with large bezel will quickly bar this from many installations.

Hopefully you have enough room for the 8.4" in the Lincoln.

Debugging the LVDS cable will take some time. I am thinking it may be faster to purchase an existing cable, with molded LVDS Hirose connector and wire in my longer cable. I may need a scope or logic analyzer to fully resolve the problem, but I'm not there yet. I will attack with DMM first, to ring out the connections.

11-06-2007, 01:09 AM	#63
thermoptic Constant Bitrate thermoptic's CarPC Specs Join Date: Aug 2007 Vehicle: 1998 Honda Accord Posts: 116 My Photos: ()	Quote: Originally Posted by bl3nd3r Thermoptic. I hope you have survived the busy month at work and look forward to your progress on this over the next few weeks. What exactly do you mean by having to design your own interposer? I am working on putting a carputer in a 2001 Lincoln LS and am hoping that either the 6 or 8 will fit into the car. Once I get the dash kit in for the car I am going to take a look and see if it will fit and if this is a viable solution. Hey bl3nd3r, I'm hanging in there. Getting caught up on e-mail, and addressing other important interrupts: Half-Life 2: Ep 2, Halo 3, The real world can really get in the way of hobbies... By interposer, I mean a hardware adapter that will mate the LCD panel to the IR touchscreen, and in turn to the bezel. This will be either metal or plastic. Since I have all the detailed drawing dimensions from the various specs, I could leverage rapid prototype house such as eMachineShop or protocase. This way others could leverage my work if they opt for this NEC and IR touchscreen combination. My original goal was to assemble a kit for the store, but the 8.4" LCD size and IR TS with large bezel will quickly bar this from many installations. Hopefully you have enough room for the 8.4" in the Lincoln. Debugging the LVDS cable will take some time. I am thinking it may be faster to purchase an existing cable, with molded LVDS Hirose connector and wire in my longer cable. I may need a scope or logic analyzer to fully resolve the problem, but I'm not there yet. I will attack with DMM first, to ring out the connections.