How do you keep the glare off that screen?

 

Not hate, bro'. I posted in the other thread.

 

yo skip, how is your screen setup inside ur ride and what size are those subs? thanks

 

Monitor is cut into the dash similiar to mikes2k and Yeloscreamer. My subs are only JL 10W3v2's.

 

Kwando: Nice setup. Did you keep your spare? What game is that with the Mugen S?

LowBudget: I like your setup too, especially how you wired the controllers to plug in by the cup holder.

I know a lot of people think that it is pointless, but I think these flat screens are the coolest. Has anyone installed a head unit with a screen that folds out? It doesn't look like there is much room for the screen to flip up.

Dave

 

If you're bored at work and not held accountable for being in a "cube"...it's nice to have access to a gaming machine. Personally I can get no time in on my Xbox at home b/c the kids have monopolized it.

Just my 2 cents.

 

woohoo. someone finally put something kool in the airbag. i want to remove mine and have a tv pop up, or maybe even turn it into a glove box.

 

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Something to think about:

Let's say you wanted a way to keep LARGE amounts of music in your car. Then, since your wife or girlfriend doesn't love the engine's roar on long trips, it'd be nice to have a dvd/divx player. And hey, sometimes you've got time to kill and not long enough to go home. Luxuries, yes, but how difficult is it?

Answer: What do you call an x86 PC with a builtin scan converter, dvd drive, ethernet card, soundcard with rca outs, a power supply that's not too picky about power being clean, and an operating system that is more or less on solid state storage? AN XBOX!
You can go buy an xbox used for $120, modify it (in software, no expensive modchips required), install a media player dashboard, and viola! You can play MP3's off of DVD+R's... Talk about some serious storage.

I'll post pics when I'm finished. I've got everything in place except the controller. Xbox is in the trunk, and the controller is hanging out in the map pocket. The display is temporarily mounted on velcro to the dash, since I park in a public garage and it's VERY risky to put a high-dollar item in plain sight in a convertable (STEAL ME). All I've left to do is finish my custom controller: I'm soldering pushbuttons (in a more logical layout) across some cat5 cables to a bare xbox controller circuit board (for the sake of re-using the usb controller on them). That way I can mount it in the rather uselsess hole behind the cupholder and dress it like a media controller, and stuff the ugly bare circuit board into the 'breezeway.'


Now, a question. I have an inverter running the xbox, and rca's to my head unit's aux in. Obviously, I'm getting a 60hz hum and clipping from the inverter's 'floating' ground since it's ground reference for the XBox's preamps is probably higher than the 'chassis ground' reference the head unit uses. A ground loop isolator helped a little bit with the DC offset, but it didn't nix the buzz completely. The power is run down the opposite side of the car from the audio signals, obviously. Should I ground the xbox chassis to the vehicle chassis? I was worried about how much current would actually flow through that ground (haven't hit it with a multimeter yet) since their potentials could be quite different. Also, would I have to isolate it with a resistor? Any other electrical/computer engineer geeks out there besides me?

 

i think your best bet is to dtich the ps2 and go with an xbox much esier to mod and better games. but do what you got to do