iPod Ipod in car?.....

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p8ntballguy

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• Sep 25, 2006

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ok i have an idea so that i can have my ipod in my car, controlled by remote and a large screen...picture: http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=caripodso3.jpg

would this be possible with the ir reciever connected by wires to the dock....also is there a way to output the menus, not just the videos.....

thanks

 

balamw

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• Sep 25, 2006

• #2

p8ntballguy said:

is there a way to output the menus, not just the videos.....

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Sure, just usa a Mac mini to drive your screen and provide the dock.

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Xander562

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• Sep 25, 2006

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i think it'd be better w/ a touch screen instead of a remote, but thats just me.

here's that mac mini idea:

 

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p8ntballguy

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that is a damn nice idea, i like that alot. Would be difficult becuase im driving a 95 c280 benz, so there would be no spot to fit a screen like that becuase there is no nav system. i would have to do alot of modifications to the console.....Im planning on starting this project in about a year so i could get a cheap mini then, or mabye by then apple straight up media center, not the mactube.. something without wifi, just a hd and frontrow......i can only hope


it would also be nice to be able to acess the radio through front row....

this all would be easier if they would just make the menus on an ipod viewable on another screen

 

gadgetgirl85

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• Sep 25, 2006

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Xander562 said:

i think it'd be better w/ a touch screen instead of a remote, but thats just me.

here's that mac mini idea:

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I would LOVE to know how they do that

 

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p8ntballguy

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• Sep 27, 2006

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viccles said:

I would LOVE to know how they do that

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here, just found it, its AMAZING: http://www.kusnetz.net/prius/

 

Lollypop

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• Sep 27, 2006

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A guy I work with had a screen with buttons attatched right below his front mirror... he simply wired a small coax cable from the rear of his 4x4... unfortunately it was a windows PC at the back but you could do the same with a mini...

 

KilGil27

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• Sep 27, 2006

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I have it hooked up through my stereo (no video) and it only supports up to N, and every new artist I add, it get's smaller...

 

pianoman

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Xander562 said:

i think it'd be better w/ a touch screen instead of a remote, but thats just me.

here's that mac mini idea:

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that is awesome! looks like something you'd see on "pimp my ride".

 

Sdashiki

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• Sep 27, 2006

• #10

www.mp3car.com

been around for years.

and now has a mac section since the introduction of the first Mac Mini.

not too much software wise, but lots of useful hardware information

 

gadgetgirl85

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• Sep 28, 2006

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As much as I'd love to do it looks way way way way too complicated for me!