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A Big-Screen Mobile MP3 Console
psymaster writes: "I found the link to this mod over at hardocp.com; it's a car MP3 player mod, the guy ripped apart the whole center panel of the car to install it and did it all over again in fiberglass." This is dedication.
Oh, joy. Now we have some idiot with a touch screen panel in his car running Winamp. Like this guy won't cause an accident.
So when he gets pulled over do they call the RIAA for not purchasing his music in each format he plays it in? Policeman into radio: Uh dispatch.. we need a tow truck, code napster. MP3 owner: What did I do officer? Policeman: Just wait here a minute, the nice folks at the RIAA are here to help.
Have you hugged your Karma Whore today?
that one song that I heard the other week...
i think it was after this one...
no no, about 200 back from here (scroll...)
was it around here? maybe down a few... (tap tap tap)...
*incoming telephone pole*
Did you look at ALL the pictures. I dunno, personally in the finished pictures on the bottom row, I don't think it looks half bad. Better than the beat up AM/FM tape decks in most of the 10 year old used cars my friends have. This isn't something I'd do in a nice new car, but it looks like a decent enough job.
It is getting rediculous - what use is Slashdot if 50% of the stories link to slashdotted sites? Many people have proposed potential solutions for this (such as /. providing a Google-like cache), but the editors always come up with lame excuses.
There's a webpage here. He did it with a 2001 Nissan Pathfinder, an older Mac Powerbook (utilizing Airport for file transfer), and a lot of ingenuity. His page also goes into detail, instead of just photos.
(I'm thinking about trying the same thing with my 2001 XTerra.)
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There is a lot more inf on this at MP3Car.com, the user sites are a bit out of date, but the forum is excelent.
Also, it looks like Q-PC sells premade car computers, though I haven't seen any info about one.
I am building a car computer myself, that will completely replace my radio with a 8.4" touchscreen, running a custom program that does Radio, MP3's, DVD and GPS navigation.
Twostep
There are 10 different types of people in this world... those who understand binary, and those who don't.
I think I'd be a lot more interested in the girls that are impressed by the MP3 player that I put into my car than the girls that get impressed by a tan (not to mention that I go straight from fish-belly white to beet red after 15 minutes of solar exposure).
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
I have a 2002 VW Golf TDi into which I installed an MP3 player. The player is mounted in the center console. It has an electroluminescent, multi-color display, infrared remote control, motorized, multi-angle display/control panel, and plays MP3s that I burn onto CD-R/RW media. That way I don't have to hook it up to my PC to put songs on it. And the CD-R/RW media holds probably 10 hours or more per CD, so it's a great way to have lots of music in a small space. That also freed me from having to worry about shock-mounting a hard drive, how the drive would deal with temperature extremes, etc.
To see a picture of the unit, go to this web page.
Total investment: Less than $400
Installation time: Less than two hours
Serviceability: Excellent
Permanent modifications to car: None
...some people just don't get it.
...and I guess it's the dozen or so readers like you that knock down his creation that make it /.
Yeah, and he could go hire an immigrant to sit in his back seat and change CDs whenever he wanted as well. It's the accomplishment of somebody busting their hump to create something that pretty much anybody on this site would love to have that makes it noteworthy.
yah but any manufacturer addition is SURE to have DRM built in :(
:)
Just imagine when your ignition is de-activated and the police given your GPS coordinates because you might possibly have an unlicensed MP3.
PS. does this mean I can get a yellow triangle...
MP3 on-board
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?