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This is what I made on my car to remove all the gauges I had.

I bought 2din touchscreen monitor, all the parts to build a mini-itx based small computer to hide in the car, and a particular power supplier for mini-itx motherboard that's driven by ignition key.
Then I modified Windows XP to be the lightest possible, and now, any time I switch on the engine, this is what comes AUTOMATICALLY out in 24 seconds:






Very useful because I programmed warnings for all sensors' values, and even for "on run" mods to the map with the touchscreen feature...

Holly smoke... great job OP! This is exactly what I wanted to do.. would you share some info?

mr2andy wrote: would you share some info?

Andy... I would...
if only there would be more to share!
It's ALL in my previous post...

Nice project

How much did you spend for the mini-itx computer?

mr2andy wrote:How much did you spend for the mini-itx computer?

Price are continuously changing...
better to go to ebay.com and type "mini-itx"...

What kind of harddrive did you choose?

mr2andy wrote:What kind of harddrive did you choose?

No Mate, no hard disk in a car (unless an expensive military solid state hd...)!!!

Or an USB pen drive, or, what I did, an IDE to SD adapter and a 4GB SD card.

Thanks for sharing mate.. this is going to be an interesting project for me once I got the car tuned.

Cheers

good project

the only thing that I would be concerned with, taking your eye off the road. You have to look down a ways to see those gauges.

None the less great project... now if you could do something like this

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/11/foru ... car-puter/

that would be a bit different and somewhat useful