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 This J33p has a lot more horse power than just the 210hp engine. With a Core2 Duo, 2 gigs of ram, GPS, a 250Gig hard drive for files and a screaming ram drive for the OS, it is a pretty sw33t ride. Ok I promise to stop writing in l33t now. It is pretty cool to be able to say "Jeep play artist Wierd All" and have it respond. Of course that sounds like what you can get with Sync in the Fords on the market. However, you couldn't tell a Ford "play DVD", or "Open GPS" or dictate notes while you drive.
We worked through Logic Supply for this project. They offer a lot of hard to find products that are ideal for geeking out your ride. We installed this system into a 2003 Jeep Liberty. This article will have four sections. 1. Parts, 2. Assembly, 3. Installation 4. Final Summary. |
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Jeep:
2003 Jeep Liberty. Yeah we made a pretty fun car really awesome in this project. You can find one of these at your local car dealership. |
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The Case:
VoomPC-2 Automotive Mini-ITX Case. This case, is built from anodized heavy-duty machined aluminum. It is heavy enough to keep it from jostling around, and the case itself works almost as an extended heat sink. The case has room for a slimline CD/DVD drive. It also has front USB2.0 and audio jacks. This is a case that can handle the harsh vibrations and varying temperatures you will find in a car. You could also easily bolt it to the floor of your car with self-tapping screws to deter theft. |
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The Motherboard
MSI Industrial GM965 Core 2 Duo Mobile Mini-ITX Mainboard. With optical out and socket P for sound, you can get great sound quality from this motherboard. It supports the latest Core2 Duo mobile processors and has fuzzy logic systems to keep the system healthy in a wide variety of conditions. |
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The Solid State Boot Media
Emphase Industrial 2.5" ATA Flash Disk 8GB. Clocking in at 4000x, this flash medium is extremely fast and extraordinarily rugged. No moving parts means that you can go four wheeling and jostle the snot out of the thing with no worries. Your OS will boot very quickly and reliably with this drive. |
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The Ram
Kingston 1Gb 200-Pin DDR2. We bought 2 sticks to put the total up to 2 GB. 2 GB of ram is the minimum we felt we could put into this systemto get the performance we want out of Vista. Vista is known to be a performance hog, but the improvements made to its media center made Vista the right choice. |
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The CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz. With this 64bit processor you have a workhorse that can do anything you need. It would be easy to find yourself having too much fun hacking and wardriving with this kind of processing power. Of course you didn't hear that from us. The Core2 Duo 1.8 is a nice cool running CPU. With a lower air-flow case, we wanted to have a cooler CPU to keep fan noise down. |
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The Mass Storage
Samsung Spinpoint M Series 250Gig HDD. This will give you enough storage to archive DVDS, and keep quite a music selection on there. You may find yourself looking for excuses to go on a road trip. With your GPS system, you could keep a national database of all the open networks you found in your coast-to coast wardriving spree. How much would a database like that be worth? Google probably would love to add it to their street-view maps... creepy. |
Tools that we used ( i.e. you may want to use as well )
One note on power tools: use them at your own risk. Be sure to read and understand any and all documentation on the tools you use. No amount of documentation can make up for experience, but there are many people with serious eye injuries from the school of hard knocks. If you don't know what you are doing, don't do it, and find someone that can help.
Screwdrivers
Pliers
Razor
Drill
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