Posted by: TCPMeta
New carputer project - 01/30/10 04:35 AM
Sadly this isn't a apple product project but still cool as heck.
My Laptop's hard drive died. This would be drive number two in the past year. The car in question is a 2002 Dodge Intrepid.
Since Dodge/Chrysler offered the Intrepid as a police car I can easily find a few goodies on ebay to add a table like shelf for the laptop.
Also there is a touch screen kit that costs about a hundred bucks I can toss into the laptop. Buy a cheap USB 2.0 hub and load it with USB jump drives and issue a software raid or a multiple partition system since I am using Slitaz Linux.
The goal for this system is for music and diagnostics. I'm thinking about adding a mobile WiFi hotspot since the last few road trips everyone brought their own laptops. All I have to do is toss in a inverter in the back seat area.
Slitaz Linux is small and very fast. Uses about 60MB for the install and can run from a USB jump drive. Best part is it loads all into a ramdisk so I can improperlly shut down the system and don't have to face a slew of dialog telling me "shame on you". So if I wanted to add some programs I can just take the jump drive into my home desktop and add modules, software and so forth. Right now im working on a mounting script that will mount my SD card for music and trying to get the wireless working.
My Laptop's hard drive died. This would be drive number two in the past year. The car in question is a 2002 Dodge Intrepid.
Since Dodge/Chrysler offered the Intrepid as a police car I can easily find a few goodies on ebay to add a table like shelf for the laptop.
Also there is a touch screen kit that costs about a hundred bucks I can toss into the laptop. Buy a cheap USB 2.0 hub and load it with USB jump drives and issue a software raid or a multiple partition system since I am using Slitaz Linux.
The goal for this system is for music and diagnostics. I'm thinking about adding a mobile WiFi hotspot since the last few road trips everyone brought their own laptops. All I have to do is toss in a inverter in the back seat area.
Slitaz Linux is small and very fast. Uses about 60MB for the install and can run from a USB jump drive. Best part is it loads all into a ramdisk so I can improperlly shut down the system and don't have to face a slew of dialog telling me "shame on you". So if I wanted to add some programs I can just take the jump drive into my home desktop and add modules, software and so forth. Right now im working on a mounting script that will mount my SD card for music and trying to get the wireless working.