Monday, Jul 16, 2007 at 21:15
I have a 10" touchscreen at 800x600 on a adjustable arm with
a photohead like mechanism to turn it from driver to passenger
7" DIN monitor with 800x480 have trouble with some videoboards
and are too small to be useful .. I have one on the boat in a waterproof case
PC is a 2GHz MiniITX board ina VOOMPC 2 case with 160G HD DVD drv
1G RAm and the 6 channel audio is wired into my factory audio system from
BOSE . I have a quadprocessor (4 cameras to reverse under my slideon) in one AV input and an auto video selector into the second AV input. this automatically
switches one of 4 inputs to one output depending on which camera was switched on last. I have the rearview, hitchview and the rearviw of the camper and the boat hooked up to it so I can select which camera is shown by just powering the camera.
The PC runs OZIexplorer, copilot and holds my 60G Mp3's. I run NextG with a Maxon arial and USB modem into tha PC and have it networked via Ethernet to my Pc's in the camper, which access the Internet through this gateway PC ...
the PC with all bells and whistles can be had for under A$900 and if you are happy with a slow 1.5G and 512M ram it is less than $500 all on Ebay ..
I find the turnkey systems too expensive and too restrictive. MiniITX is still big
for many cars but will fit under the
seat easy. NanoITX is smaller though but also
more expensive. MiniITX is previous generation and gets cheaper and cheaper.
BUT be aware that 800x480 screen have some problems with some of the motherboards. 800x600 is just fine.
I also have a wireless minikeyboard with integrated mouse.
I have no pics at the moment but can take them quite easy .. still working on some parts of the system. I swap the case to a slightly thicker one to run a PCI card on a riser . its a capture card which records up to 16 cameras which will run
24/7 and covers the complete rig including boat.
If you are in
Perth I am happy to help to put it in.
good luck
gmd
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