Thread: 2002 Camry Sportivo V6 Manual

Doing some more work on it today... I bought some K&H Stop Putty before I got married and have been to busy since to do anything with it, so got a chance today to do it...

Its nearly ready to prime and paint...

On the software side, I decided to buy Centrafuse today... got the Aussie version with the 30% off and with the dollar so strong, I paid US$192.50 which worked out to only about AU$235.00 so it was pretty good :-) And I'll get the free upgrade to 3.0 when it comes out...

So I want to get a BT OBDII device so I can have OBDII, I see one on DealExtreme ( http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.16921 ) I wonder if that would work with my car?

I also want to get a reversing Camera, so also a USB video input so i can connect it to my computer... And then a relay-board of some sort so that I can set Centrafuse to automatically select the Camera when i put the gear leaver into Reverse...

Other later stage items I wouldn't mind are: TPMS for the tyres, Temperature Sensors for Outside and Inside Temp Display... A PCI Graphics Card, and PCI Sound Card, so that I can have Dual Zone, and a 2nd Screen for the back for rear-seat entertainment (and probably some wireless Headphones to go with it)

I've had another renewed burst of energy... I got a new phone... a iPhone 3GS 32Gb... so this will replace my previous iPod Touch 2G 16GB which I swapped for my original iPod Classic 160GB, and it also replaced my Nokia N95...

So now I'm wanting to get my carputer finished, and I'm also planning to build a iphone dock down in front of the gear stick bellow where the headunit will be mounted. And then the iPhone can be connected via USB to the carputer, so i can play podcasts and music in Centrafuse of the iPhone and also charge the iPhone at the same time...

So I'm planning to get stuck into my carputer on Saturday, hopefully the weather will be nice so i can get some nice drying weather, to finish off the spot putty filling and then get into painting...

looking forward to seeing the finished project birdie as i'm looking at doing a similar project in a VX commodore with Iphone 4 (+handsfree bluetooth) and dual zone video/audio to wireless headphones for passenger. have you found any good sites/info on this?

Originally Posted by springate

looking forward to seeing the finished project birdie as i'm looking at doing a similar project in a VX commodore with Iphone 4 (+handsfree bluetooth) and dual zone video/audio to wireless headphones for passenger. have you found any good sites/info on this?

Thanks, yeah I need to get my butt into gear and finish mine... problem for me is I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and sometimes my expectations are above my capabilities, so it takes me a long time to get it done...

Yeah I want to do the dual zone, not that it will get much use yet, as we don't have any kid-ets yet, still a couple of years before wife and I are planning for them..., but yeah its what i want to do, maybe it might be part of a future hardware upgrade, as i'll need another video card and sound card, also i'm not sure if Centrafuse supports dual-zone yet, there was mention of it a while ago...

What would be awesome is a screen like on the one in the top of the range Range Rover (saw it on Top Gear) where from the drivers seat you see the GPS nav, and from the passenger seat you saw a movie or something... on the same screen!!!

yeah i know about the perfectionist feeling. it's probably why i keep thinking about doing it but not actually doing anything. I would really love to have 2 touchscreens (1 in-dash & one in passenger sun visor) the sun visor one would only get used for watching TV/video and listening through wireless headset, but i want to be able to listen to radio/phone calls/music through main speakers and in-dash screen. the problem is I don't understand how i can get both screens to control the PC at the same time (eg. passenger picks a movie whilst driver is selecting an alubum) do i just need 2 sound and video cards or do i need some special drivers and software too?

I'm in CQ too!

Should be possible. I'd say you'll need a beefy CPU and plenty of RAM and possibly dual video cards to get it working without problems. This thread says it's possible:

http://forums.fluxmedia.net/skinning...setup-cf3.html

Regarding audio for dual-zone, you'll need two sound cards and each program will need to work out which sound card to use.

I found this bit of kit that should allow multiple touch screens to communicate with one PC.. If you can get multiple instances of CF3 to run then i think the problem would be solved (UAS for the audio i'm presuming)

http://www.networktechinc.com/kmspltsplt.html

Can anyone tell me how my current mobo, Its an Axiomtek SBC86807 Mini-ITX motherboard with a Intel Pentium M 1.8Ghz CPU and 1GB DDR Ram, would compare to an Acer Aspire one with Intel Atom 1.6Ghz CPU and 1GB DDR2 Ram?

I've got a spare Aspire One netbook that my wife purchased and then basically never used after the novelty wore off..., so i was wondering how it would compare in performance to the Pentium M 1.8Ghz? If it is better, a couple of things I'd need to work out are: how to start-up and shut-down the netbook from the key (without modifying the netbook), also i guess I could just use all USB accessories, like USB sound cards (2x for when i want dual zone), only problem i could see is what to do for video if i set up dual zone, maybe it would be an opportunity to upgrade the hardware (again) then... haha