madmezza
Ex. Club Member
Not generally what you'd expect in a Micra, but I've finally fitted my in car PC. :grinning:
It's got a 7" lilliput touch screen mounted where the stereo used to go (I modified the centre console to fit it in), and the PC is mounted under the drivers seat.
It's got USB in the glove box, connected to 802.11g, wireless keyboard and mouse (for diagnostics really), digital radio input into the CD input port. I custom made the case for the PC (out of MDF) and it's got a sequencing PSU, 3.5" HDD on custom shock mounts, GPS, two fans to keep everything cool.
I've attached a pic of the console (taken on my phone while I was driving to work this morning - hence the poor quality!).
I'm working on new software - all car PC software available seems to either use VB6 (old and slow) or .NET (new and very, very, very slow and resource hungry!). So I'm writing an GUI in good, old fashioned native C++!
It's got a 7" lilliput touch screen mounted where the stereo used to go (I modified the centre console to fit it in), and the PC is mounted under the drivers seat.
It's got USB in the glove box, connected to 802.11g, wireless keyboard and mouse (for diagnostics really), digital radio input into the CD input port. I custom made the case for the PC (out of MDF) and it's got a sequencing PSU, 3.5" HDD on custom shock mounts, GPS, two fans to keep everything cool.
I've attached a pic of the console (taken on my phone while I was driving to work this morning - hence the poor quality!).
I'm working on new software - all car PC software available seems to either use VB6 (old and slow) or .NET (new and very, very, very slow and resource hungry!). So I'm writing an GUI in good, old fashioned native C++!