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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 10:09 AM
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Default My Carputer in Action

A lot of people have been asking to see what the carputer can do. I did a quick demo of just some of the things I use on a daily basis.

Here is a spec list of the carputer:
7" Xenarc Touchscreen
Epia M10000 motherboard
512mb ram
200gb HD
Opus 150w vehicle power supply

Runs on Windows XP with FrodoPlayer carputer front end. Going 3 years strong! ZERO PROBLEMS!

Anyways, enough talk, here's the video, more to come later!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xz2IQEdLgk

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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 10:12 AM
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I need that. Where to buy?
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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 10:14 AM
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I learned how to build it from mp3car.com. If you can build a desktop, this is the same. I see the only "hard" part is making it look nice & oem inside...
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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 10:18 AM
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very nice and very cool- i like it alot
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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 10:21 AM
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Thats awesome! I loved the booty shaking! Made my Friday morning! Can't wait to see it in person at the Autobac's Meet!
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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 10:23 AM
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Holy ish, I never understood what the big deal was with a carputer, but seeing that in action explains it all. Is Frodo/the interface free?
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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by emoshun
Thats awesome! I loved the booty shaking! Made my Friday morning! Can't wait to see it in person at the Autobac's Meet!
I had to throw that in there...hopefully I'll have my EVDO router installed in time for the meet so we can browse CL...

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Holy ish, I never understood what the big deal was with a carputer, but seeing that in action explains it all. Is Frodo/the interface free?
Frodo is completely free! Another very good front end is Road Runner (also free!), I am working on that right now, fully customizing the buttons/layout...
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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 10:50 AM
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Looks Clean! I remember seeing your SC at Dynamic when I had my SC serviced and your looks looks great inside and out!
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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 10:52 AM
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amazing install! CLEANNNN
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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 10:53 AM
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Dope..!!

Did you bypass the parking brake lockout?
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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 10:55 AM
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Man that is nice Tony. Just loving it.
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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 10:57 AM
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thats baller. can't wait till i do mine.
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Originally Posted by King7Two
Dope..!!

Did you bypass the parking brake lockout?
This setup does not work like factory setups. I can use it anytime during driving. The power supply I use resumes the carputer from hibernation when I start the car and puts it back into hibernation when I remove the key.

Thanks for all the compliments! I'm hoping this would get more people into carputers ...modifications/functionality is pretty much endless depending on your hardware setup...

Trying to setup cameras front & rear to record for fun while driving...
Also, stickin' a 24" widescreen monitor in the trunk for 4-player MAME action
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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by ACleanSC4
This setup does not work like factory setups. I can use it anytime during driving. The power supply I use resumes the carputer from hibernation when I start the car and puts it back into hibernation when I remove the key.
Now thats what Im talking about.......I was looking at 7" touch screens.......but I may look further into this.

Thats a killer set-up
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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 11:06 AM
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Looks good. I'm running almost the same thing in my RX300 with Road Runner. How are you getting your audio into your amp? I just tapped into my wires at the cd changer and it works great on my Ipod but when I plug into the PC it doesn't sound too good. It's the unbalanced to balanced problem. I'm looking for a isolation box now to fix that.
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