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06-06-2004, 01:36 PM
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Newbie
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Holland
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Car Heads Up Display?
Hi,
I was wondering if anybody here knows if there are HUD
(Heads Up Display) display-kits available to connect
to your car pc. It would be great for displaying some
extra information on your windshield 
Thanks,
- JW
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06-06-2004, 01:42 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Look up HUD! Many have talked about it. Don't know of many or any succeeding.
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06-07-2004, 10:04 AM
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Raw Wave
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Temple Terrace, Fl.
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From what I have read in the past you need to have a special windshield to reflect the image properly. At least that's the case with my car.
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06-07-2004, 10:41 AM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Memphis - TN
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The HUD im building consists of a 4x20 LCD, a mirror and some reflective window tint.
Just having LCD troubles 
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06-07-2004, 10:54 AM
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FLAC
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Massachusetts, US
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I've been thinking about this alot lately. I don't want to do anything with mirrors, so I've been searching for a way to reverse the characters on an LCD. If anybody knows anything...
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06-07-2004, 11:16 AM
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FLAC
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Massachusetts
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Couldn't you use a graphical LCD and reverse it in the software? You'd have to draw it all yoruself I guess.
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06-07-2004, 11:18 AM
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Raw Wave
Join Date: Jan 2002
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just make your own font.
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06-07-2004, 11:47 AM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Memphis - TN
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im going to use a mirror only so I can adjust the height and angle.
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06-07-2004, 12:35 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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Quote: Originally Posted by Defiler
just make your own font.
Wont that mean the letters are flipped but not put in reverse order?
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06-07-2004, 12:39 PM
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Raw Wave
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Quote: Originally Posted by sabre
Wont that mean the letters are flipped but not put in reverse order?
You may have a point here. 
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06-07-2004, 12:52 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Wanaque, NJ
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just flip the image twice. put a mirror in front of the lcd display on a 45 deg. angle and place the lcd display flat on the dash, that would probably work.
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06-07-2004, 01:01 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jan 2004
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If you can control the font the LCD is using, why can't you control what text is going out to the LCD?
Just reverse the order of the characters before sending it to the LCD. That plus reverse font will get you what you need w/o the induced jitter that multiple mirrors give you. Put a patch of mirror-style window tint where you want the HUD, it's transparent but will reflect the LCD clearly in daylight.
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06-07-2004, 01:38 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Houston, TX
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Develop dyslexia and you don't have to worry about mirroring and flipping the images.... 
Me it for works....
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06-07-2004, 01:44 PM
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Mac Car Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Maryland
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lol true true. I know there is a system sold for $3k to do infra-red heads up display for cadaliacs and hummers. linkage is at home though...at work right now:-(
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06-07-2004, 02:15 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Massachusetts, US
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An IR HUD? does it come with a pair of james bond spectrum shifting sunglasses? shaweet 
I'm liking defiler/chairboy's thinking, though i don't know enough about 9 pin serial / usb LCDs to figure out how practical it is to reverse the font. Correct me if i'm wrong, but these LCDs are simply sent a character stream and positioning information over the bus. Font is handled by the LCD 'controller'. Any thoughts on how you would replace the font on the LCD 'controller'? I neither have a prom writer nor a clue how you'd do this...
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