Infotainment System for Porsche Car [from CAD, prototyping to finish]

[Nine8Six]

@thatguychad - thank you so much for sharing your ideas man. Love it when things are interactive like this, gives me a good road map RE what ppl would like and dislike. What you've described fits pretty much within what I had in mind already but you provided a few good points and those won't go unnoticed (e.g. Multiple USB ports, others also). Thanks for the help bud

Originally Posted by eicheldp

Please remember to keep it simple for Sparky.

haha I remember Sparky lolll (old friend Don!) Got to be simple or I don't play myself bud. So far the only thing coming out of the prototype is a 12VDC black(-) and red(+) wire. Might need 4x output for the speakers + antenna port and that's it (I hope). Might also have 4x USB ports in the back of it but this has nothing to do with installation; more or less meant for the users to expand the functionalities.

Originally Posted by MWS

and as a recovering engineer (still stuck on step 8), I thought I might throw in my 2 cents...

I dont see your comments worth less than a million $ bud (2cent?!). Thanks for supporting and providing your vision of a perfect system. Can't promise I will deliver exactly as you are picturing but will be close enough. Should be, well, that's the aim anyway.

All about modernizing the front dash of my 20 years old Boxster with something that doesn't have toddler style icons and colors ranging from violets to pink (as in the hardest part of the design btw). Challenge you to find a 2Din kit around without-the-silly... near impossible. In the aftermarket kits anyway.

lolll "real knob"... you'd love this capacitive/touch trackbar. One light tap and that's it - set.

Quick Update:

Well, there is no update. Although I've done a bit of work two weekends ago, I haven't had time recently to things together... after being flown out of the country twice for other business. Good news is I am planing to resume all of this as soon as the hardware I've ordered 2 days ago turns up (GPS, sound, stuff like that).

I'll update this coming weekend!

[MWS]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

lolll "real knob"... you'd love this capacitive/touch trackbar. One light tap and that's it - set.

Don't be too quick to discount tactile input. Sure, an "all glass" interface is really cool looking, but the feel of a turn of a knob or a push/click of a button is not only intuitive, it provides mental feedback as to the status of the operation attempted. As an example, imagine being blindfolded and handed a physical keyboard; within a few seconds, your fingers will find home, and typing is not an issue. Now imagine blindfolded and handed a tablet; the output of which (if anything) would be "hkbvefhvjhfebelll" (apologies if this means something in Norwegian).

Also, per your advice, I am raising my fee from 2 cents to 3 to compensate for the new gas tax increase in our state.

Cheers, best of luck, and keep us updated.

[Nine8Six]

We should make friend, I share your exact same opinions! I'm a Rock Start man (part-time, at home, imaginary audience and all). Played rhythm and lead guitar on my custom mappleneck Jackson's for +30 years now... "tactile buttons"?! Hell... I express feeling-of-the-day throughout 20x of those buttons daily lolll If our hardware would be all replaced with digital trackbars I'd be the 1st to set this world on fire

Some of my knobs even ticks and feedback lolll (in the context of guitar knobs, pls)

But hey, it is what it is and I am getting a nice and fat slider for the master volume in my 986. Could Photoshop it and make it look like a "real/physical" studio style trackbar also, would that help mentally you think? loll

[steved0x]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

I'm a Rock Start man (part-time, at home, imaginary audience and all). Played rhythm and lead guitar on my custom mappleneck Jackson's for +30 years now...

We need pics!!!!

Circa 1993:


Edit: I'm the one in the middle with the Carvin Tele style guitar....

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by steved0x

We need pics!!!!

Circa 1993:
Edit: I'm the one in the middle with the Carvin Tele style guitar....

You are tad better looking than I am so I won't upload the jamming sessions we got on pics here... all very sweaty stuff anyway. Since its a Porsche/986 forum, here's one. Spot the 986!

and no, I don't keep a toy car in my guitar case lolll that'd be the beginning of the end

[Nine8Six]

Quick Update:

Its Saturday!!! 10:57AM, third coffee and seeing rainbows already. Below is just a preview of the theme styles the prototype will have to live with for a few extra weeks. I'm at a stage where I have pretty much all code libraries and user controls squared out and nicely debugged. Proof of concept basically.

So until we settle all of the features that will eventually need plug-in, we'll toss away the User Graphical Interface(and freak coding) aside and start drafting the digital twin of the assembly in NX. We have so much to do; from ordering cabling & connectors to designing heat sinks and coming up with a proven thermally managed enclosure!

I'll update later this weekend on the hardware I've settle for external GPS, still trying to get this running at the minute - might get the 4th coffee lolll.

Until them, here goes some proper thread painting stuff



^ The package is set to this "Silver" by default. Got Hot Pink also and something like 128 other colors to chose from loll





and so on.... you get the idea. The only 2 DIN kit "In-The-World" that is designed with the option to set any RGB color. OEM Dash & Accessory lights match or money back

[Nine8Six]

Last week, while in transit between a city to another, the guy sitting next to me in the train said; "it would be nice to have the option to set a personalized background to your app?". So to save us both from dying of boreness, we did this together right there on the laptop lolll

You can now upload a 1024*600 background.png/jpg to the system. Route 66 below (I think) is meant for dev only, I plan on replacing this with the picture of my wife of course, but also like the solid black background (personally). Anyway, the option is there if needed

I've also set the live spectrum to transparent. Bounce nicely to the beat without being distracting to the driver a-la-previous version. A bit light for some but still very visually pleasant imo

986 candies: