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

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by fridsten

They usually have the functionality that I'm looking for and they're relatively cheap.

If I'm satisfied with the results of the main-board we'll have 64G of flash hard drive and can expand + 250G with mini SD card. Me think you'll be able to have WindowsXP,2000,7,8,10,Ubuntu,Red Hat,Android1,2,3,4,6.7.8.....17..

all-at-the-same-time.. Shall you wish! I'm only going to support Windows and develop using their exiting libraries. That's all it means.

But hey man, if this wvga with non-porsche size bezel is your thing, let me know I can get you those parts picked up by our friend in Shenzhen for anyone here. They are epidemic at street e-market level for roughly $20~30/kits. I think you get that super huge box made out of steel for FREE also, not sure (wires incl.). Built-in Android and all... but can't change anything in it though. All proprietary back-end :/

[fridsten]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

If I'm satisfied with the results of the main-board, when those comes out, we'll have 64G of flash hard drive and can expand + 250G with mini SD card. Me think you'll be able to have WindowsXP,2000,7,8,10,Ubuntu,Red Hat,Android1,2,3,4,6.7.8.....17..

all-at-the-same-time.. Shall you wish! I'm only going to support Windows and develop using their exiting libraries. That's all it means.

But hey man, if this wvga with non-porsche size bezel is your thing, let me know I can get you those parts picked up by our friend in Shenzhen for anyone here. They are epidemic at street e-market level for roughly $20~30/kits. I think you get that super huge box made out of steel for FREE also, not sure (wires incl.). Built-in Android and all... but can't change anything in it though. All proprietary back-end :/

I see your point. How about CD/DVD-player and FM radio with RDS?
Right now I have the PCM1, which already is a steel box with severely limited functionality, now that I have removed the phone and nav unit.

I also like that you can get them with tactile buttons and knobs. That gives it more of a "car feeling", which I like. I don't want to look at and touch a screen in order to lower the volume, for example.

I can appreciate what you're doing and I'm interested in seeing the progress you make. I just don't think it's for me, that's all.

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by fridsten

I see your point. How about CD/DVD-player and FM radio with RDS?

We'll integrate the Si4703 ic for you, if you really really need rds. See, you guys got to tell me what a porsche car needs. RDS sounds good?

and wt.. is a CD/DVD? you lost me there brother

[fridsten]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

We'll integrate the Si4703 ic for you, if you really really need rds. See, you guys got to tell me what a porsche car needs. RDS sounds good?

and wt.. is a CD/DVD? you lost me there brother

RDS is absolutely necessary here in Europe at least. A lot of traffic information coming that way.

CD is an old technology. You see, in the olden days people used to save music on physical media in the shape of aluminium discs covered in clear plastic. Weirdly they called it "CD", which is short for "compact disc". It's in a disc shape, but compact? I'm not so sure about that.

After a few years, they discovered that they could store movies as well, and that was called DVD, or "Digital Versatile Disc", although at first it was short for "Digital Video Disc", until they discovered it could be used to store not only video, but other things as well, such as computer programs.

Fascinating, isn't it?