I did tell my dad once that i wanted to have a job that didn’t use computers. And now i’m a computer geek. Some people pay me to fix their computers. Others pay me to build websites, and still others pay me to play music from my computers. All that and i still need to use a computer during my “day job” and i get home and often spend some time on the computer there. So, needless to say, i really feel lost while i’m in my car driving between computers. Not for long. I’m installing a seven-inch touch screen into my dashboard connected to a computer running Windows XP that i have mounted under the driver seat with a dvd drive. There will be a wireless keyboard and probably bluetooth or wifi connectivity. Why? Because i can. I’ll have thousands of songs at my fingertips. If i wanted to i could have the gps that came with the computer running (i always know where i am though). I could install a cam in the back of the car and easily see just how close i am to the car behind me while parallel parking. Before and during pictures… not done yet so the completed project will be a little while.
So that is what the dash originally looked like. And it will eventually look something like this…
Getting there required me removing the seats and all the center console stuff. I ran wires from the battery and under the carpeting. I removed the factory stereo. I used the internet to figure out the wiring harness and to splice the new head unit that Cena picked up for me at Best Buy while she was in Seattle over the weekend.
And i busted open knuckles on both hands working on this project.
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August 30th, 2005 at 10:57 am
at least you’re a bloody nerd, eh?
August 30th, 2005 at 10:42 pm
zieak has more hours in his day than the average human…..thats the ONLY way to explain it
August 30th, 2005 at 10:58 pm
wait, is that the teletubbies palette on your car computer screen?
i truly don’t know what to say about this project. except don’t be alarmed if i get a a ‘follower of zieak’ tattoo.
August 31st, 2005 at 3:29 am
he’s downstairs tinkering at the moment, wearing the fingerless gloves you gave him at christmas mom. 20/20…
August 31st, 2005 at 6:15 am
So where are the pics of the finished product?
August 31st, 2005 at 5:08 pm
It isn’t done quite yet. I need to find software (free preferably) that will let me rotate the image on my screen 180 degrees. Then i should be able to wrap it up in a few hours.
September 3rd, 2005 at 4:43 am
This reminds me of the time I wanted to put an iLoo in the bathroom. I don’t know if you remember that a couple of years ago Microsoft announced this crazy idea of putting waterproof keyboards and lexan covered LCD monitors in public restrooms in the U.K. When everyone realized what a disgusting idea this was, the big M said it was intended to be an April Fool’s joke. Except that they made the announcement around the middle of March!.
What I was planning on doing was putting a laptop on a swivel arm and have it connected to the wireless router. That way when you run out of things to do sitting on the crapper, you and IM with someone or surf some porn.
Just an idea…