Comments on: In-Vehicle Navigation and Entertainment Computer Project http://moose.ca/in-vehicle-navigation-and-entertainment-computer-project/ Christopher Alexander's miscellaneous ramblings. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:56:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anonymous http://moose.ca/in-vehicle-navigation-and-entertainment-computer-project/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://moose.ca/?p=49#comment-7 It's been a while since this article was posted, I'd love to see where things are at now. It’s been a while since this article was posted, I’d love to see where things are at now.

]]> By: Chris http://moose.ca/in-vehicle-navigation-and-entertainment-computer-project/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Chris Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://moose.ca/?p=49#comment-8 There is not a whole lot of progress on this part of my Jeep build as the mechanical hardware has been very much on the front burner. I've been working on building a high pinion Dana 30 axle with Jeep WJ knuckles and big brakes as well as a full float Dana 44 rear axle with disk brakes. One of these days I'll get around to posting a page or two with content about these components. What little I have done boils down to making a FVWM mixer panel that can be used to control the the voume levels for the different output sources as well as dealing with balance and fade. Here is an old screenshot of what it looks like: <div align="center"> <a href="http://moose.ca/content/Projects/Projects_Jeep_Nav/Jeep_Projects_Nav_01Sep2005/recon_mixer2.png" target="_blank"> <img src="http://moose.ca/content/Projects/Projects_Jeep_Nav/Jeep_Projects_Nav_01Sep2005/recon_mixer2.png" width="400" border="0"> </a></div> The screen is composed of multiple "buttons" that interface to a bash shell script to set volume levels per device appropriately. Nothing very difficult but tricky nonetheless. There is not a whole lot of progress on this part of my Jeep build as the mechanical hardware has been very much on the front burner. I’ve been working on building a high pinion Dana 30 axle with Jeep WJ knuckles and big brakes as well as a full float Dana 44 rear axle with disk brakes. One of these days I’ll get around to posting a page or two with content about these components.

What little I have done boils down to making a FVWM mixer panel that can be used to control the the voume levels for the different output sources as well as dealing with balance and fade.

Here is an old screenshot of what it looks like:

The screen is composed of multiple “buttons” that interface to a bash shell script to set volume levels per device appropriately. Nothing very difficult but tricky nonetheless.

]]> By: Chris http://moose.ca/in-vehicle-navigation-and-entertainment-computer-project/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Chris Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://moose.ca/?p=49#comment-9 This is a quick update of the direction the interface is taking. It is s still rough and it'll likely take a even more "iPhone-ish" look with respect to the widget set used. Currently I am messing around with FVWM-Crystal in an effort to add some more "eye candy" to the interface.<br /> <br /> <div align="center"><a href="http://moose.ca/content/projects/davis/DAVIS_v03a.png" target="_blank"><img src="/content/projects/davis/DAVIS_v03a.png" width="400" /></a> </div> This is a quick update of the direction the interface is taking. It is s still rough and it’ll likely take a even more “iPhone-ish” look with respect to the widget set used. Currently I am messing around with FVWM-Crystal in an effort to add some more “eye candy” to the interface.

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