[abhinav.gupta88]

Originally Posted by m4ugr8

Looks great Smokkin, Another DIY job to your credit. The screen looks much better now in its OE position. What are the other two upgrades??

One is the head lights. Other space navigator (like the i drive on the bmw.)

[phamilyman]

Awesome looking - much better than when we met up !

[smokin]

Originally Posted by hydrashok

Nice work, smokin! Looking good!

thanks man !!

Originally Posted by m4ugr8

Looks great Smokkin, Another DIY job to your credit. The screen looks much better now in its OE position. What are the other two upgrades??

you got it !! yup i am waiting for the mmi to integrate with my car pc and it will be almost 98% completed

Originally Posted by phamilyman

Awesome looking - much better than when we met up !

yup definitely sir !! what's your update ? i hope it has been solved till now





now a small new upgrade or just say a small add on !!

got a powered usb hub and done the DIY to get it in working at DC power supply

but now need help from you all guys to get it fitted at the best place to fit the hub

i am thinking to place it just ahead of the gear knob where design has been made
any thing i can do to protect it from dust ?

pics laterz

[nisarg86]

smoking. You going to use that Griffin Power Knob ?
Also Please enlighten me more on Space navigator.
Why are you using Powered USB HUB ? For Sound Card ?

[smokin]

Originally Posted by nisarg86

smoking. You going to use that Griffin Power Knob ?
Also Please enlighten me more on Space navigator.
Why are you using Powered USB HUB ? For Sound Card ?

no bro griffin just worked as a volume knob nothing else but this will work a lot you can search 3d connexion space navigator ,you will get the idea what is it!
if you have seen the mmi in audi or idrive in bmw ,you will see that they can do each and everything for the entertainments like switch between the apps,phone,navigation,radio,cd's volume etccc

i am over with my usb on -board ones so needed a hub but which can support 2.0 in each and every port ,tht's why i got this

this is cheaper than the logitech ones and work flawlessly and good speed.



P.S. If any mod see this i want you to shift the thread to the DIY section

[smokin]

few pics in day time of the screen


haven't go the time to click pics of the usb hub as the console doesn't arrived today too !
will work on it tomorrow

[NomadVagabond]

I'd soon do something like this. Have been keeping an eye on SSD drives and sine they've come down pretty much would love to have one of these installed in my Gypsy very soon. Along with a Garmin bluetooth GPS receiver this would rock

Regards,

Anirban.

[abhinav.gupta88]

Update on the console and Space Navigator!

[ghpk]

Smokin, We'll love to see recent pics of your carputer ?

was the USB hub fixed as desired ?
Iam very much inspired by your carputer and starting to build it as soon as i've the someone to help me modify my OEM bezel.

As its a Santro, i would like to call it San-puter

[smokin]

Originally Posted by ghpk

Smokin, We'll love to see recent pics of your carputer ?

was the USB hub fixed as desired ?
Iam very much inspired by your carputer and starting to build it as soon as i've the someone to help me modify my OEM bezel.

As its a Santro, i would like to call it San-puter

sure will click it soon ..

Yes the usb hub was a powered one and i altered it to work with 12v battery (as it comes on 22v ac power adaptor)

sure anytime sir

Originally Posted by abhinav.gupta88

Update on the console and Space Navigator!

you know console has been done but the space navigator giving problems on vista looking for a laptop on windows xp for few days ,anybody who is kind of enough for the same ,i will be thankful to him

[ST7677]

Hey Smokin,
Congratulations on your excellent carputer setup.

How is Space Navigator working. Does it integrate with Centrafuse?
From what I have read around, while Griffin powermate has fewer movements, it can be very easily setup for any application.
While it is very difficult to setup Space Navigator for the same. It is only designed and useful for 3D based applications - like Google earth and some 3D navigation games, that also provided somebody has written an interface between the two.

When I was searching, I could not find any interface for Centrafuse. So I was wondering how you are using it?

[smokin]

Originally Posted by ST7677

Hey Smokin,
Congratulations on your excellent carputer setup.

How is Space Navigator working. Does it integrate with Centrafuse?
From what I have read around, while Griffin powermate has fewer movements, it can be very easily setup for any application.
While it is very difficult to setup Space Navigator for the same. It is only designed and useful for 3D based applications - like Google earth and some 3D navigation games, that also provided somebody has written an interface between the two.

When I was searching, I could not find any interface for Centrafuse. So I was wondering how you are using it?

I am using the rbc9 driver for the same ,search it ..

but i tried on my friend's laptop(xp) it was working but i have the vista one and it's not working on it ,i am still looking for a laptop which has the xp in it ..few of the people uses it and it's working flawlessly

for car pc ,do find the exe file for 800*600 resolution one otherwise it will be big for the screen

[ST7677]

But isn't it also too sensitive for a car PC environment. I have heard that minor unintended movements (while car is moving) trigger commands which makes this very unusable on move.
It looks a wonderful controller on paper, I would love to use it, I hope it can be made to work (practically) in a car environment also and does not end up being an expensive paper weight.

BTW why aren't you running XP. Support for VISTA with most of the drivers is very poor and you might face lot of compatibility issue, plus the system resources that Vista consumes is another pain.

[smokin]

Originally Posted by ST7677

But isn't it also too sensitive for a car PC environment. I have heard that minor unintended movements (while car is moving) trigger commands which makes this very unusable on move.
It looks a wonderful controller on paper, I would love to use it, I hope it can be made to work (practically) in a car environment also and does not end up being an expensive paper weight.

BTW why aren't you running XP. Support for VISTA with most of the drivers is very poor and you might face lot of compatibility issue, plus the system resources that Vista consumes is another pain.

I agree with you here but the driver i am talking about here has the feature called DEAD ZONE you can setup the value that until that value crosses on that axis the function will not activate ( i hope you got my point)

On car pc i am running the xp but due to a pend rive the virus came and i dont have the cd -rom withme it's lying with my friend and his house is under renovation

so waiting for a formatting of windows

i was talking about my laptop on which i will try run the SN

[3danikesh]

Amazing Project
I have 3dconnexion’s Space Pilot with me and as far as I know space navigator is of no use for you as it will only work on specific applications like 3dsmax and Maya. Space navigator is a entry level product form 3dconnexion and they might have added support for regular windows navigation.
Check out this link
3Dconnexion