the shiny car

Dustin's 1999 Pontiac Grand Am

initial setup

Initial setup on Dustin's kitchen counter

First bootup screen!

Gentoo Stage 1 installation

Xfce installed successfully! Reminds me of a Mac

Notice how small the touchscreen is compared to a 15" monitor?

hardware design

Interior of Dustin's car, where it will be installed

Monitor mounting bracket installed on junkyard interior piece

Monitor on mounting bracket

The temporary enclosure that was designed -- a cardboard box :)

Plastic standoffs to secure the motherboard

Adding a piece of static reducing foam that the board was packed in, just in case

Everything mounted in the enclosure.. its starting to look scary!

installation

Ok, its officially scary. The temporary enclosure looks like a bomb! Better not go through any checkpoints...

The final result with the temporary enclosure. Pretty sweet.

A picture my passenger took at night of Roadnav. It works extremely well! (sorry about the blurriness)

This is a picture of my car all torn up when we were installing the computer. :)

This is the first view of the new case for the computer. Isn't it shiny!? Seriously, this picture doesn't even BEGIN to describe how nice this case actually looks!

This is a view of the final case when its closed. Its extremely compact and barely fits in there.

Carputer is finally mounted into the car semi-permanently!)

Another view of the carputer.