/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>218045
Thanks for the reply. Can anyone do what was requested in >>218042 ?

PurpleNurple?

It would be nice if mods would ban Chinafag.

I came.

>>217832
That pic... magicarpchikoma!

The most challenging part will be the naysayers, but don't let that stop you. Look where ignoring the naysayers got Burt Rutan!

>Clear skies and tailwinds!

>>214338
PROTIP: Use three of these >

>>>24752814

>>214396
Hey man, all I said was to search YouTube for microwaved grapes. Don't lump me in with everyone else.

>>213984
The point was to show a visual representation of what happens when you subject plasma to microwave energy. That was the question in the OP, was it not?

>>214216
I hate those things.

OP, go to YouTube and search "microaved grapes". It's a way to make plasma in your microwave oven.

>>213370
>For simple things, like climate control and radio, you can't text someone, or watch a dvd, or enter a gps address, or type in an artist to search for music.
>you can't text someone, or watch a dvd, or enter a gps address
>you can't ... enter a gps address

Lexus limits almost everything that you can do while driving. BMW only prevents you from watching video while moving. You can, in fact, enter an address into the GPS while driving.

In the smartphone/tablet setup I suggested earlier in the thread, Vlingo/Siri can reduce the drivers "heads down" time to zero - much safer than the one to three seconds spent changing the radio station on a "dumb car". See >>212300

I believe the carputer in the blog I linked also has voice control. See >>212259

In this way, a heads up display and voice command / text-to-speech can reduce or eliminate heads down time. This keeps the driver's eyes on the road.

OP, you should go for it.

>>213322
All of those displays I mentioned are usable while the car is driving. It's how you change radio stations or turn on the air conditioner.

>You don't like that song? Oh wait, let me pull over so I can change the channel.

That one anon doesn't know that some car manufacturers are putting computer screens in cars standard.

1987 Buick Riviera (my grandmother's had a "carphone" menu as well. This one in the video does not)
http://youtu.be/LoYSCuAwPUg

2010 BMW iDrive
http://youtu.be/XdnOjevfWIE

Plus the Heads Up Display I mentioned and linked to here.
>>212259

>>210724
Not the book you're looking for, but I recommend Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard. It's not about cyberpunk per se, but it does explore the idea of "hyper-real", which is an aspect of cyberpunk. It's an integral part to movies like The Terminator, Blade Runner, The Matrix, and Ghost in the Shell.

>>211638
>Cyberpunk fakebook
>fakebook
True dat.

>>212007
sounds like a great setup!

I'll admit, carputers give me a nerdgasm.

If i had the $$$, and didn't want to go all out with a dedicated laptop, 3g dongle, LinkSys router running DD-WRT, remote displays, etc, I could probably come up with a viable carputer solution using smartphones and tablets. Presumably, this could be done with Android *or* iOS, but I don't know crap about Apple products.

"Large" tablet running HUD software in dash, projecting on windshield (speed, acceleration, etc) (Torque or similar)
Have a smaller tablet in the center console to control the HUD with a remote control app, and to use as a general interface (calling up Google routes, etc.)

Bluetooth enabled radio unit to route audio from tablets to speakers (or maybe keep them separate).

Link phone to bluetooth radio to handle incoming phone calls, or to make calls hands free.

Install an app like Vlingo or whatever it's called for hands free controlling of displays.

Use WiFi tethering to let tablets access internet. (if I wasn't so damned poor)

XiiaLive Lite installed on either center console tablet, or cellphone, to have internet radio and MP3 library stream to car radio.

Could also make internet calls with Skype or Gmail on center console tablet.

I don't know how functional all of this would be, and because it's so much easier (in theory) than tearign up the car and running cable and installing inverters and stuff for a proper carputer set up, some may argue that it looses some of the /diy/ credibility.

>>212154
>torque
THIS

If my cheap POS tablet had Bluetooth, I'd be doing exactly this! BTW, Torque is a great app.

Pic related
$19.99 adapter OBD-II Bluetooth from Amazon. Personally I use it for scanning/resetting codes, but true moterheads get a lot more use out of it than that.

There's a carputer guy who has a ton of stuff figured out for /diy/ carputers. I was about to start on my own car, when Ohio E-Check made me butthurt.

http://hackaday.com/2009/09/01/homebrew-carputer/
Pic related. It's the guts you don't see.

>>211919
- HUD that flips out from the headrest
For a Heads up Display, you can try a projector or screen that has a mirrored image of what you want to see in the dashboard. What you'll see on the windshield is the reflection of the mirrored image.

For a demonstrations, there are Android (and maybe iOS) apps to do this. They utilize the phone's GPS, accelerometers, and megnetomitors to display speed, acceleration, magnetic heading, etc, and if you buy a Bluetooth OBD II dongle, you can also get RPM, voltage, throttle - whatever the onboard diagnostic computer knows. So you can get an idea from these of how others have done it, and DIY something better

(bigger screen = bigger HUD)

If I had $ i'd experiment with a HUD connected to a simple little webcam (for starters) with the IR filter replaced with a visible light filter so I could have what's on those certain BMWs and Buicks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aOc7NLqV-A
>related (instead of aligning image with head, align head with image, like in HUD equipped aircraft)

>>207530
This will explain it all OP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCIXnhjSnM8&feature=colike

>>204617
I appreciate that, sir/madam. Thank you!

>>204541

>>204463
I think she's 45 and he's in middle school so whatever that age is. She's not hot. I literally was about to build a /diy/ harpoon before my wife told me that would be premeditated murder and not whaling.

>>204467
yes

>>204466
What frequency?

bumping

I think my neighbor's are doing it, which wouldn't be a problem, except that they're mother and son.

inb4 "That's hot." because this sin't /b/, otherwise I'd have something inappropriate to say.

>>204362
Tenga, do you live in an apartment or duplex? (or triplex or quadplex etc.)