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( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:13, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

Hard drive enclosure in the boot, basically.
Trouble with car head units is they'll only recognise FAT32, which limits you to 32GB of storage, along with some other issues. There are ways around this, but the most expedient solution seems to involve HU - Media player - HDD, which kind of seems pointless, may as well plug in my iPhone.

However...

Building an in-car computer sounds like fun.
( Kroney, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:19, Reply)

yeah
all this does is remind us that you don't know what "fun" sounds like.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:22, Reply)

Sounds like the way forward, I'm glad they are putting more DAB radios in cars

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:22, Reply)

The new Merc S class has 200gb of storage

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:22, Reply)

Yeah, but then you're limited to whatever Merc thinks is acceptable kit.
I was thinking about a netbook outputting to a small touchscreen. You can get them about as small as a double-DIN radio enclosure. Wire that all up and you've got GPS, audio, video and full internet capability.
( Kroney, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:25, Reply)

Theirs is a netbook - removable too I think.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:26, Reply)

Sounds like they've stolen my idea. I should sue.
ICCs are getting more common. It'd be good fun building my own.
( Kroney, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:28, Reply)

or you could just leave a porn mag open on the passenger seat

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:32, Reply)

Off the top of my head
would something based on a RasberryPi, with a small touchscreen, running XBMC or similar and a large HDD not fit the bill, and be fairly compact?
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:28, Reply)

It would, but the base-spec Pi isn't powerful enough to run XBMC, I've tried.
You'd need the more powerful one and then you're into proper money.
( Kroney, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:29, Reply)

I have my Pi running rasbmc on my TV, took about 20mins to set up.
Problem may be that it likes to download bug fixes a lot. so you'd have to either park it in wifi range or take it out and bring it in the house every night.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:30, Reply)

Well, if you install to the enclosed HDD
I guess you'd only need to un-mount the drive and bring that in to update on PC.
( Kroney, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:31, Reply)

you could get Nakers to help
and hardwire it straight to the PC at all times
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:33, Reply)

Sure, if I'm happy only driving around in a 30 metre radius.

( Kroney, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:33, Reply)

Yep, or if you've got another Pi in your house then you'd only need to pop out the SD card and get it updated.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 16 May 2013, 8:33, Reply)

I have a 500gb drive formatted to fat32
It just limits the maximum files size to 4gb,
( Peej, Thu 16 May 2013, 9:05, Reply)

And your wife still won't sleep with you?
Some women are difficult to impress.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 16 May 2013, 9:07, Reply)