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In the begining a simple plexiglass

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and after people's comments, i try to make my own bezel as the ones found on ebay for E39 are not looking good to me.

Some plaster, some earth, some mastic, a lot of work and time in an attempt to build my bezel, well actually a plug in order to make a fiberglass mould.

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in black to check errors

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finally rounded a bit more angles, thinned lines of the bezel

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Took the computer from my other car without reworking the frontend.

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How it used to look with a motorized in-dash screen in my other car

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After rework the frontend and some parts of the software

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Internet

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Trafic in city

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and in the country as well with the highways

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full screen as well with road informations displayed like cameras

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Ibus sniffer

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and finally redirection of some informations to the display

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The actual computer beiing built containing some automation parts

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Videos :

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2meqq_bmw-et-radars_auto

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2nbuh_gp...imultanes_music

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2n7b0_video-player_music

http://www.dailymotion.com/rkraft_fr/video/x2mejr_bmw1_music

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damn man ..... you did a great job .....

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Thank you :D

Slavic powa :D :D

I plan to sell it to a ship builder which seems to be interested, so i'll make a jump in yougo to see how we could work together.

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Hi,

The frontend software is my work and the design as well it runs with linux that's why it could seem unusual.

I chosed linux for it's strengh, stability, security and viruses and crap immunity but it can still cooperate with windows as well to get shared files.

I made several adaptations, it runs in a Mercedes Benz environment with a simple coding wheel

http://www.dailymotion.com/rkraft_fr/video...e-embarque_auto

but this is nothing, next to come is promising more fun, it's a mix of artificial intelligence that you can chat with at http://www.r-kraft.com/robot/src/talk.php and this thing

here a joke for a forum member so i added german accent http://www.dailymotion.com/rkraft_fr/video..._roadster2_auto but this avatar coupled with the intelligence should be something apart.

Here the voice recognition http://www.dailymotion.com/rkraft_fr/video...et-mot-cle_tech and as in a car it is noisy environment, it is usefull to get a magic word to separate parasit noises and avoid false analysis

http://www.dailymotion.com/rkraft_fr/video...et-mot-cle_tech

Actually i'm working on eye tracking and gestures to complete this voice recognition solution to use multimedia system, in the end it should be a complete multimodal system.

mmm forgot to set the link to the eye tracking http://www.dailymotion.com/rkraft_fr/video...ch-my-eyes_auto

http://www.dailymotion.com/rkraft_fr/video...ye-tracker_tech

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Checking how it would look instead of the plexi, this pic has been done with the old version of the bezel, looks too heavy but it can give an idea on how it could look in a E39.

I'm waiting my car to take pics of the new version

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I just received the next part which will be integrated for the other bezel :D

A slot in dvd rw

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At the present moment the software standalone is not available because it's messed with the kernel but after the meet i have this summer and depending of the results, i think i will have more visibility.

For now i can' t decide because i don't know if the ship builder will be willing to have exclusivity on the product or if he will be ok to share.

In case he wants exclusivity then i will make another one different version for Bimmers owners i could offer to the community.

I hope this answer will satisfy you :D

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Wow this is an impressive work :D

I would never try to play with fiberglass and dashboard, i'm total beginner with all those stuffs, i mean dismantling all and simply jump with an idea and fibers.

Basically i'm not so confident with fiber works so i rather prefer to stay in my domain like software and automation and my bezel is a real pain lol.

When you see the poor piece of bezel i built, this can sounds funny compared to your work, so kudos to you !

What kind of motherboard do you have ?

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My first carpc was built with a no name card, pentium p266 with 512 K memory, hdisk of 4 Gb and playstation's screen i recycled for the in car use with a vga to s-video converter.

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It was not looking good as the bezel was of metal with a sticked velours lol :D

What software were you using with your first carpc and what were the functions of it ?

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Last plug before i start fiberglass mould, this plug includes enough room for a dvd player within the space of the first faceplate i built but nothing more than a screen and a slot-in dvd player will fit :)

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I will see tomorrow under daylight where are still some tiny bad spots, it's too late for now but most of the second bezel is near to be finished.

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last version including the player with exposed front

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Still some tiny quirks to repair and some sanding but most of this part is finished :)

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tnx for for sharing with us your experience in this matter. We hope to see more and experience in some other matter

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Pa zato sto znam da ne znam dosta reci i slaba gramatika onda bolje mi je da pisem u engleski da ne lupam gluposti u srpski i da stvara jedna umorba kad se cita text :)

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Bolje pisi na srpskom pa ces za par godina popraviti pravopis ,i svaki normalan ce razumeti ,niko ti nece uzeti za zlo los pravopis a ako te neko bude zajebavao tu su moderatori :)

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  • 3 weeks later...

Novi motor u auto http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5zr9x_mov04b_auto ali do kad je bio auto u garaza ni sam mogo da radim sa preciznosti.

Morao sam da popravim "faceplate" da udze bes problema, sad nema mesto ni sa papir da se stavi gore ili dole ali eto uslo je fino.

Sad je vreme za "finition" da bude sve kao iz fabrika na industrialska visina.

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Ovde stari mrtvi cd rom koji me posluzil za da proverim dubucina i prilaz za zicama.

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Prasina i prlavstine svugde ali ni je vazno, momentalno to je samo da vidim globalno kako to lici.

Ni sam ni strafe zatego, samo sam drvene komada postavio da mogu odabrati farba, ili mat ili lakirana.

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