touchscreen steering wheel Carputer. - Page 2

Enforcer · 10-17-2008, 03:09 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by lesterine

slip ring? whats that? who said i was using a slip ring?

How are you getting the wires to the screen then?

Sonicxtacy02 · 10-17-2008, 03:11 PM

having an rsx and knowing just how easy they are to break into and steal (you can do it literally with a butter knife) i would never ever do that.. but hey more props to you for trying.

lesterine · 10-17-2008, 03:13 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Enforcer

How are you getting the wires to the screen then?

lol magic. video will b up on monday of it in the car

lesterine · 10-17-2008, 03:29 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by monkeyracer

Why?

Why would you put the screen in the wheel? I could understand with an older pre-air bag car, but...
nevermind, it's your own demise.

actually i bought a nardi deep corn steering wheel. and as with 99.99% of aftermarket steering wheels, there is no airbag.also it looked to plane. plus i dont want my boost,oil pressure, etc.. guages on a piller, everyone does that. i wasnt going to drill holes on my dashboard to put those out of place mounts either. decided that i wanted them where the stereo is and i had always wanted a carputer. add that to the fact that i have an iphone and everytime i was using google maps when i was lost, i would always put it in the middle of my nardo deep corn steering wheel so i wouldnt really b taking my eyes of the road to see it. BAM came up with this idea n when from there.

next time you guys are driving look to the right where your stereo is or look jst in the same area where your guages are, tell me which one is easier on your senses and your visuals on the road. airbagless steering wheels are very popular in the aftermarket scene, for those who question that aspect.

monkeyracer · 10-18-2008, 10:22 PM

Interesting theory.
It takes the eye mere milliseconds difference to move from the road to either the dash area or center console (some cars have guages in the center, mini cooper for example, or saturn ion, etc...) that millisecond difference is absorbed in our reaction times, so it doesn't really matter where they are, it matters more how our eyes are trained to find the info we need.

Aftermarket steering wheels that remove the airbag should be required to list a warning that denote that they are airbag-less and that installing them could be illegal in your area. (removing factory installed safety equipment) they usually say that they are for off road use only too.

You could have placed it directly above your gauges too, or right above the center console above your deck and gauge pod.

Lastly, your OEM wheel looked just fine, so why change it out? You lose cruise control with the aftermarket wheel...

With the stuff you are planning to do to that car, I would just hate to have a chest full of that monitor, and would much rather have a soft pillow instead. A 5 point harness would be a good idea, but it won't work unless you use it.

Bimmerstyle · 10-21-2008, 02:05 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by lesterine

slip ring? whats that? who said i was using a slip ring?

How are you planning to get the monitor to work otherwise? You can't connect it with a cable because then you can't turn your steering wheel anymore.

A slipring is the thing inside your steering wheel that connects the steering wheel electronics to a connector in the dash. It rolls on and off when you turn the steering wheel.

lesterine · 10-21-2008, 02:24 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Bimmerstyle

How are you planning to get the monitor to work otherwise? You can't connect it with a cable because then you can't turn your steering wheel anymore.

A slipring is the thing inside your steering wheel that connects the steering wheel electronics to a connector in the dash. It rolls on and off when you turn the steering wheel.

i was confused by this term slipring. its actually called an srs cable reel. and yes thats what i used. i drive an rsx and the cable reel for that only has 8 wires and i need 11 (vga+touch+power line). so i actually got 1 from honda for a honda civic si. that has about 19~ wires on it. had to take it apart and do alot of work to solve to magnetic interference/ cross talk between the wires that was causing a very blurry image. lol after about 11 hours of anger i figured that part out with a very simple solution. but all is well

rdholtz · 10-21-2008, 06:18 AM

Aside from the safety issue, this is turning into a very interesting project. I'd love to have a keyboard (with IBM-style TrackPoint stick, if possible) set into the steering wheel, probably above -- but on a level with -- the airbag. I won't give up the airbag, but I've assumed previously that adding a keyboard meant, in a collision, that I'd get a faceful of keyboard delivered with the airbag. If I survived, those would be interesting scars to explain; I might even have to change my name to Letter-man.

This gives me some hope I could get that keyboard in there safely so it wouldn't interfere with the airbag's operation. Hmmmm. A wireless keyboard there might be very interesting.

Now I'm pondering whether I could mount a fixed keyboard independent of the wheel. On the Scion xB, that wouldn't obscure any controls or instruments. Hmmmm.

You're inspiring me -- keep pluggin'.

Enforcer · 10-21-2008, 08:51 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by lesterine

i was confused by this term slipring. its actually called an srs cable reel. and yes thats what i used.

Next time you don't know what something is, either search or ask before summarily dismissing it.

quantum · 10-21-2008, 08:55 AM

I'll jump in on the "I'd rather have an airbag than a chest full of electronics" bandwagon, but to each his own. Cool project otherwise though...

Actually, I thought it was called a clock spring, not slip ring?

Bimmerstyle · 10-21-2008, 10:54 AM

The name slipring comes from older cars that had it. Back then it was a ball bearing or a brush that rolled over a metal ring. Hence the name slipring.

In Dutch it's still called that and Enforcer used this name too so I assumed the name slipring was a common name in English.

But whatever, I'm looking forward to pics of how you managed to do it. Nice project.