ICE with a twist

This is my ICE interface... 8)

Nice, tell us more. Car PC running Doze? Is that a touch screen?

What on earth is this Vlade?

Yip its a CAR PC...

8" VGA Touch screen, with a PC in the boot... 😀
PC is running a 12V power supply with some other cool features.

I listen to MP3's and use it tune my the Wolf 3D...

How much did it all cost you and where did you get the touch screen.

I'm also planning on doing something like that later.

R2500... I have them imported from the UK and in I can do bulk as well at R2300 for 10+ orders...

Would be REAL cool if the screen folded away, like those fancy DVD screens. I would take one then.

Hey Vlade, that is awsome dude i actualy have been considering this route but there was more cons than pros they i wanted to do.
I wanted to use a mini PC(which is on the expencive side) from any computer retailer, and buy an 12V-->220V adapter from and electornic shop and use bluetooth for the interface, problem was on how to connect to the indash screen in the front.
I would have to by a VGA card with RCA video outputs, and the other probrem was on how to integrate it with the in car sound system.
It got a bit too much and i gave up.
But your way seems very vaible specialy the price is tempting.
Does it includ the touch screen or is just the pc?

Great ICE man.

I tried that exact route, the problem is with that is when you go from RCA to VGA your "TV" type screen has a very shitty resolution of 320 by ?X? now you try to compress 800x600 resolution in there and you end up with huge quality loss and you can't read the text even if you increase the font size on the PC it still looks crap... on the other end your screen isn't touch so how do you interface with the PC?

the 12V-->220V converters also don't work well, they eat battery power like nothing and often your PC will reboot when you try to start the car, then dies soon after you kill the ignition.

I can get foldaway screens that fit in a DIN unit... will find out a price.

Find out the price they would be way cool, must be touch screen aswell. How big is the computer in the boot??

and how much was the DC powersupply?

Hey Vlade,
What you've explained is exactly what i had to consider before i went & blew my money on all the goodies, to avoid the PC from rebooting the all time i thought of an UPS(more costs) and maybe just connect the PC to the batt directly but it was just not gonna work propperly. Plus home PC's don't like vibration or bumpy roads, just my sound would have blown the hdd to pieces. I'm glad i didn't go through it at all.(just tells that planning before building is still the safest thing to do).

Tell me something, the price that you mentioned is it for what you have installed in your car? Includes PC, monitor, Power DC converter etc..etc?
Can you post more pics of the system?

ups is a bad idea for 2 reasons:cost and would add alot of weight to your car. For storage could use a laptop hard drive they should be better "padded" maybe wrap it in foam or something for incase. You do get converters to use it in a normal pc.

Entry level laptop at < R5000.... with car 12v adapter or 2nd hand unit. Mount in boot with remote mouse, keyboard, external touch VGA screen... 🙄

Coke...ICE with a lemon twist 😂

PC in the boot is a small form factor Desktop PC, with one 5" bay

DC power supplies you get cheap ones R500 and you get decent ones R1000 the cheap ones don't last from what I have read...

Actually if you look at desktops and laptops (if you open them up), there isn't much difference in the way that slap the shit together... The components are mostly the same. I have been running mine for nearly a year and thats through my drifting and so and only had once or twice where the PC crashed because of heavy bumps and my SX is KAK hard
😀

So Vlade can you get some in car PC's??