Thread: 2008 Scion xD

Here's the background, my boyfriend and I were in Miami for a trip with his law school. I had my GPS device, my Sirius, and his Laptop all plugged into ONE cig lighter plug. Wires were everywhere, the GPS wasn't working all of the time, and Sirius kept getting unplugged by the loose outlet splitter I had.

When we got back I decided to search to see if it was possible to have a computer control Sirius - I'm a huge fan of Sirius, I can't live without it - When I found Mitch's solution, I knew what I had to do! In one week, I ordered the following

Most important Mitch's SC-C1 USB Sirius Interface
Lilliput 7" EBY701
VoomPC case
Intel D201GLY2A
(1.2GHz Celeron)
1 gig Ram
120 gig Hard Drive
160W M2-ATX
Holux GR213 GPS USB Receiver

I'm sure i'll get a few chuckles from my weak procssor and the M2-ATX, oh well, it seems to be working well enough.

I assembled everything at work and started installing software.

Software:
WindowsXP Pro (minLogon)
RoadRunner
Skin-Modified Carwings
GPSGate
iGuidance 4




Thought I'd throw a picture in there because that's what you really want to see, screw the text right? I mean, that's what I mostly look at on here.

Back to my story.

One day I plan on puting the LCD Display in the 2 din radio spot. When I was going on my shopping spree I didn't want to buy a big amp for my speakers and simply use the head unit to power the speakers.

I have recently come across a nice little DIY board that will do 40W x4, plenty for all I really need. I expect by summer the display will replace the stock headunit.




Here is my modified Carwings skin



My next addition is a modified joypad. I ordered 4 power window momentary rocker buttons [on|off|on] There are 4 switch blanks in the center consol of the xD by the eBreak. I'll solder the momentary rockers to 8 buttons on the joypad and use CdRsKuLL's joypad 3 software to control RoadRunner. (The boyfriend gets on my case about playing with my screen while driving.)

I hope you've enjoyed my story and pictures

Peace
J.