Carputer Test

Ashish and I did a bench test of his carputer on Saturday. He had a standard PC power supply which he set up so we could use it to emulate the 12V car battery. I brought over and old light switch to emulate the ignition. He has a pretty nifty power regulator from CarNetix. It generates the 19V needed for the PC and 12V needed for the LCD and has some nice start up and shut down logic. The motherboard is an Intel Core Duo Mini ITX with a Xenarc touchscreen LCD. He's going to be running Windows and probably StreetDeck. You can get a lot of this stuff from Mp3Car. We managed to get everything wired up and running and nobody got hurt! Now we have to plan out how to install this in his car...

Ron and I are making progress on the new website. He's done most of the programming this time around while I've contributed some graphics and helped with testing. Since this site will have mostly user generated content, we're spending a little more time on the look and feel. We hope to be able to launch it in the next week or two. I think it will look much nicer than the Review Summaries site.

I need to install a bunch of modules on the North Star site still. I think I've pretty much settled on which ones, I just need to get it done. Then there will be some final configuration and a lot of testing. We still need to finish up some static content as well.