Category: Carputer
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Wahoo! Just ordered my ASUS EEE 701
Sweeet… My ASUS EEE 701 sub notebook is on its way 🙂 Fortuantly (for me) I still had enough left in my ‘Technology Refresh’ budget to secure one of the first of these units to come into New Zealand and of course, big thanks go out to Tom for getting the wheels in motion to […]
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Big Mother (or Father) is watching…
I’m not 100% sure I like the idea of this, but several US insurance companies are now offering devices to be installed in the cars driven by teenagers which report on unsafe and inattentive driving behaviours. Reading this article, it appears that the participants are almost ambivilent about the intrusion into their behaviour away from […]
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Carputer Update
Not a lot has been happenning on this front, life has been getting in the way of spare time to twiddle with technology, but a huge thanks once again goes out to my very own liveware version of Google, or as I call him… Tom. Tom flicked me a link to iMedia who are a […]
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To Fabricate or not to Fabricate…
Well, this is probably the easiest decision I’ll need to make. Given that the car is parked on the road every once in awhile, I quickly came to the conclusion that a ‘removable’ installation is just going to ask for trouble so, it’s an in-dash install – and with that, it’ll need to ‘look factory’ […]
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Getting it together
Right – before we start hacking into the dashboard and cutting holes in the carpet, there’s a few things we need to sort out first: Research Hardware Software First Cut functionality Build and Testing Mounting the unit Research Obviously the internet is a great resource for gathering information about this project. In a lot of […]
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Pimping MY Ride…
This isn’t a “we’re gonna lower this down, drop in some 20″ rims with some spinner action going on - and bling out the soundz” post, this is a “How do I maintain some semblance of respectability now that lifes events have conspired to force the purchase of a 7-seater vehicle?” post… A few weekends ago my […]
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Danger danger Will Robinson…
This is pretty cool, a definate starter for inclusion into my carputer…
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Bloody Idiots!
Sometimes you just want to have a grill-mounted rocket launcher…