I agree with GrafTrahula, XBMC has a VERY nice interface, but I would honestly just replace the radio box with a newer one with an AUX port, then get a male to male 3.5mm headphones jack, and assuming you have an iPod, plug one end into the iPod, and the other into the AUX port. Then just select your song on the iPod.
@XW0RKS: It's no different then any other computer. It's an Intel processor (all though Debian will run on pretty much any processor type). The hardest part was getting the touchscreen calibrated. And I'm betting that would be easy now then it was when I originally installed that computer 3 years ago.
@metalx1000 Sorry, my question was not put out right... At a moment I thought that system is runned on DVD player that has the touch screen. Sorry about that. I was browsing your blog today and man I found a lot of good scripts, what I wona say, I'm taking you as my teacher for bash scripting since I was planing to learn it. I'm hopping you'll help me when I would need some scripts with this kind of project, what do you say ?
@XW0RKS: Oh I see. No it's just a screen run to a computer under the seat with a special power supply and case. I'm here if you have any question about BASH. And I have plenty of BASH tutorial. But, please also check out my IRC channel. There are a handful of helpful people in there and you'll have a better chance of getting an answer with more people working on an answer. The IRC channel is #filmsbykris and we are on freenode.
This could be a double post. Anyway, I recently got a T-Mobile G-2 that supports tethering, among other things. I also just picked up an old Compaq Presario 305 (no wifi- radio) for free. USB boot was not supported so created a slax cd and booted up ok. Decided to try out my tethering feature. Ran dhcpcd usb0 and BAM! Decided to load slax to the HDD to speed things up. Could be an option for you. Nice work BTW.
@Elit3M1ke: I tried that for a while. I bought a real cheap USB wifi dongle and it would work, but with a real weak signal and it would drop out at times. Plus, the car battery would have to be on and you don't want to be running that to much without the engine on. Still, it was a fun project.
This is EXACTLY what i'm trying to do :D Im a proper linux geek especialy when it comes to embedded systems. I've been trying to find a touch screen very simular to your own that I could hook up to a car-pc. What exactly am I googling for when looking for one of these screens? Ive had the hardest time trying to find something like that.
@kirgy9: The computer and parts came from mini-box(dot)com. The screen I have wasn't all that great and the Florida heat I think killed it last summer. I did install 2 of these for other people and found a better monitor with a built in FM Radio and Amp for less money, and it used the same drivers.
@kirgy9:At the time I installed this in my car (which was over 3 years ago) All the Linux Distros I tried would detect it as a touch screen out of the box no problem. But, the only distro that I could calibrate it properly with was Mandriva. But, this may have been partly due to me being relatively new to Linux at the time. The Computer is still in my car, but I haven't had it hooked up for about a year now.
@supercoolguyT: Linutop hardware, or Linutop the Distro? If you are saying the Distro, I can't really say because I haven't tried it. If you are talking the hardware, I would like to know why you feel that way. I don't believe that a Linutop has a power supply that is designed for use with a car battery, so you would have to use an inverter, which is stressful on the battery. Can it detect the power surge from when you turn the car on and off and properly shut the system down?
@metalx1000 Hardware. I just though it would be better from accessibility stand point. I don't know about the power but i think playing mp3s isn't too demanding.
I have a little Socket 7 motherboard that's about the size of that little PC. I put a 256MB PC100 stick in it and dropped in an AMD K6-3 500MHz processor. It runs Crux Linux now. :)
Ive been wanting to do this and I started one time but.. you know how things go.
I am too cheap for a touchscreen so I was going to build a gentoo distro and control it with a IR remote control, it would just shuffle through. And for managing it I was going to have a crossover cable set up and have a ssh and other servers running on it to get into it.
Yeah, the touch screen was the most expensive part and the most pain in the button. Linux detected it as a touch screen and would move the mouse when I touched it, but it took me forever to figure out how to calibrate it.
The Griffin Knob is great. They sell them on Amazon for about $37 (I just checked). I use a program evrouter to grap the input and sendkey presses to Amarok. I will be doing a video on evrouter in the near future as well as doing the same thing with your own Python script.
I originally had it play the Knight Rider theme for a few second when the desktop was loading, but that got old fast. And I did have a Knight Rider theme for the boot screen.
all it needs is the red kit car thingy
catklyst 3 months ago
You're making me jealous!!
Ograws 6 months ago
I agree with GrafTrahula, XBMC has a VERY nice interface, but I would honestly just replace the radio box with a newer one with an AUX port, then get a male to male 3.5mm headphones jack, and assuming you have an iPod, plug one end into the iPod, and the other into the AUX port. Then just select your song on the iPod.
PIKACHU49386 7 months ago
dude, how did you installed debian on that kind of device ???
is it simple put cd in and boot from it somehow, or its more job to it ??
XW0RKS 8 months ago
@XW0RKS: It's no different then any other computer. It's an Intel processor (all though Debian will run on pretty much any processor type). The hardest part was getting the touchscreen calibrated. And I'm betting that would be easy now then it was when I originally installed that computer 3 years ago.
metalx1000 8 months ago
@metalx1000 Sorry, my question was not put out right... At a moment I thought that system is runned on DVD player that has the touch screen. Sorry about that. I was browsing your blog today and man I found a lot of good scripts, what I wona say, I'm taking you as my teacher for bash scripting since I was planing to learn it. I'm hopping you'll help me when I would need some scripts with this kind of project, what do you say ?
XW0RKS 8 months ago
@XW0RKS: Oh I see. No it's just a screen run to a computer under the seat with a special power supply and case. I'm here if you have any question about BASH. And I have plenty of BASH tutorial. But, please also check out my IRC channel. There are a handful of helpful people in there and you'll have a better chance of getting an answer with more people working on an answer. The IRC channel is #filmsbykris and we are on freenode.
metalx1000 8 months ago
@metalx1000 OK... man, thanks a lot, will do.
XW0RKS 8 months ago
a computer thats easy to take in and out of the car?
a laptop?
rob3342421 8 months ago
@rob3342421: I would have used a netbook in the glove box if they existed at the time. :)
metalx1000 8 months ago
00:44
spriggan01 9 months ago
use XBMC media center
GrafTrahula 9 months ago
use XBMC media centre
GrafTrahula 9 months ago
This could be a double post. Anyway, I recently got a T-Mobile G-2 that supports tethering, among other things. I also just picked up an old Compaq Presario 305 (no wifi- radio) for free. USB boot was not supported so created a slax cd and booted up ok. Decided to try out my tethering feature. Ran dhcpcd usb0 and BAM! Decided to load slax to the HDD to speed things up. Could be an option for you. Nice work BTW.
InfinitelyManic 10 months ago
@InfinitelyManic: Yeah, My Nokia N900 tethers out of the box with Linux. Make things very nice and easy. Thanks for the info.
metalx1000 10 months ago
@Elit3M1ke: I tried that for a while. I bought a real cheap USB wifi dongle and it would work, but with a real weak signal and it would drop out at times. Plus, the car battery would have to be on and you don't want to be running that to much without the engine on. Still, it was a fun project.
metalx1000 10 months ago
oh man I'm a few months away from driving and this is nothing but inspiring :D
MetalShreader 11 months ago
This is EXACTLY what i'm trying to do :D Im a proper linux geek especialy when it comes to embedded systems. I've been trying to find a touch screen very simular to your own that I could hook up to a car-pc. What exactly am I googling for when looking for one of these screens? Ive had the hardest time trying to find something like that.
kirgy9 1 year ago
@kirgy9: The computer and parts came from mini-box(dot)com. The screen I have wasn't all that great and the Florida heat I think killed it last summer. I did install 2 of these for other people and found a better monitor with a built in FM Radio and Amp for less money, and it used the same drivers.
metalx1000 1 year ago
@kirgy9:At the time I installed this in my car (which was over 3 years ago) All the Linux Distros I tried would detect it as a touch screen out of the box no problem. But, the only distro that I could calibrate it properly with was Mandriva. But, this may have been partly due to me being relatively new to Linux at the time. The Computer is still in my car, but I haven't had it hooked up for about a year now.
metalx1000 1 year ago
Linutop would work much better. That would be cool if you installed meego ivi when it comes out.
supercoolguyT 1 year ago
@supercoolguyT: Linutop hardware, or Linutop the Distro? If you are saying the Distro, I can't really say because I haven't tried it. If you are talking the hardware, I would like to know why you feel that way. I don't believe that a Linutop has a power supply that is designed for use with a car battery, so you would have to use an inverter, which is stressful on the battery. Can it detect the power surge from when you turn the car on and off and properly shut the system down?
metalx1000 1 year ago
@metalx1000 Hardware. I just though it would be better from accessibility stand point. I don't know about the power but i think playing mp3s isn't too demanding.
supercoolguyT 1 year ago
i have one in my aircraft i fly a piper cub
otterpat 2 years ago
i have one in my aircraft i fly a piper cub
otterpat 2 years ago
how do you even get that computer in your card? holy moly! cool
cardcollectorsteve 2 years ago
I have a little Socket 7 motherboard that's about the size of that little PC. I put a 256MB PC100 stick in it and dropped in an AMD K6-3 500MHz processor. It runs Crux Linux now. :)
RPCJerkobi 2 years ago
behind the amarok I see aircrack wireshark and some wiretapping softwares...
hijrakom 2 years ago
I did have a Linksys USB wifi adapter for a little. It was a pretty cheap one, but worked ok. I would ssh in to do some work from in the house.
But, I left it on the dash one day and the Florida heat melted the whole thing.
metalx1000 2 years ago
google earth = cheap mans gps
joejc07 2 years ago
In stead of Amarok I'd have loved to have seen date flying by on a terminal in a green font, lol.
I hope you keep all that stuff locked up in a garage though!!
jayjaygibbs 2 years ago
Epic.
I think I'll just stick with my cassette adapter for my mp3 player. ;P
korwinblue 2 years ago
Ive been wanting to do this and I started one time but.. you know how things go.
I am too cheap for a touchscreen so I was going to build a gentoo distro and control it with a IR remote control, it would just shuffle through. And for managing it I was going to have a crossover cable set up and have a ssh and other servers running on it to get into it.
That's pretty sweet.
tuxsbro 2 years ago
Yeah, the touch screen was the most expensive part and the most pain in the button. Linux detected it as a touch screen and would move the mouse when I touched it, but it took me forever to figure out how to calibrate it.
The Griffin Knob is great. They sell them on Amazon for about $37 (I just checked). I use a program evrouter to grap the input and sendkey presses to Amarok. I will be doing a video on evrouter in the near future as well as doing the same thing with your own Python script.
metalx1000 2 years ago
This project pretty much was a waste of money, but fun and a learning experience.
metalx1000 2 years ago
nice work
codecaine 2 years ago
I originally had it play the Knight Rider theme for a few second when the desktop was loading, but that got old fast. And I did have a Knight Rider theme for the boot screen.
metalx1000 2 years ago
Awesome car lol :)
borttrollad 2 years ago
That is sooo pimp!!! awesome!
librano 2 years ago