The worktop installed and a relay added to allow me to control the actuator...
Here is the TV installed. I had to use a sheet of 6mm aluminium stuck to a sheet of 12mm plywood to support the TV, as the actuator is pushing the wholethis up very close to the hinges, therefor a lot of torque exerted on that one spot...
The back of the van, finally everything done...
Now on to the good bit, the Car PC. I built a carPC for a college project 6 or 7 years ago, a DOS based one so I obviously wanted to do one in this van. After downloading and trying various front-ends and not being 100% happy with any of them, I decided that I would write my own. So while I was building the back of the van, I was also reading a book called 'Beginning Visual Basic 2005'. A year later, and I have a fully functional carPC and self written front-end. In the next picture you can see the VoomPC 2 enclosure and my software running on a 15 inch LCD. AS well as MP3, DVD, CD player I also programmed a tide table into the front-end, so I know what state the tide is at my local beach...
Right, now to install the 7 inch Lilliput, here is where it will go...
The Lilliput is too big, so it needs to be cut down. I cut the buttons off the bottom of the Lilliput because the infra red controller can be used instead of the buttons, if you ever need to change any setting on it...
I placed tin foil in the dash, as it it a good release when fibreglass is used...
The Lilliput housing is placed in the void along with some 'fibre fill' car repair fibreglass...
After the fibreglass is cured, the housing is popped out of the dash and rough sanded...
