OK - I've been thinking of doing something that no one else here in Aus has done yet before getting my interior retrimmed
What i want to do is mount a laptop in
Yeah yeah i know been done but NOT the way i want to do it
I want to get a laptop and dismantle into pieces so when you open the glovebox you'll find the keyboard and touch mouse pad - Not just sitting in there but moulded in there flush on a panel
Now for the screen i was thinking of cutting a section on top of the passenger dash out around 50mm bigger than the actual laptop screen, making a new fibreglass panel and mounting monitor underneath it
Now this is where it dumbfounds me
I was thinking of putting this panel on some sort of motorised track so when you turn computer on it would open the panel on top of dash to vertical position revealing the screen
The whole dash is getting retrimmed in leather so no need to worry bout different material looks etc
The main CPU side of things would be mounted underneath keyboard in glovebox but the DVD drive could me mounted in middle of dash somewhere - maybe under stereo in spare DIN enclosure
I can see a lot of benefits here - you would have access to internet anywhere by mobile phone, games aplenty for passenger to play on journeys, DVD movies, MP3 storage by the thousands, could set up a satellite navigation system and maybe even engine tuning software installed and permanently connected to your cars computer for tuning
But most of all it would be VERY unique and sure to win a lot of votes at future shows
What you guys think?
You think it's feasable or am i just wasting my time
What i want to do is mount a laptop in
Yeah yeah i know been done but NOT the way i want to do it
I want to get a laptop and dismantle into pieces so when you open the glovebox you'll find the keyboard and touch mouse pad - Not just sitting in there but moulded in there flush on a panel
Now for the screen i was thinking of cutting a section on top of the passenger dash out around 50mm bigger than the actual laptop screen, making a new fibreglass panel and mounting monitor underneath it
Now this is where it dumbfounds me
I was thinking of putting this panel on some sort of motorised track so when you turn computer on it would open the panel on top of dash to vertical position revealing the screen
The whole dash is getting retrimmed in leather so no need to worry bout different material looks etc
The main CPU side of things would be mounted underneath keyboard in glovebox but the DVD drive could me mounted in middle of dash somewhere - maybe under stereo in spare DIN enclosure
I can see a lot of benefits here - you would have access to internet anywhere by mobile phone, games aplenty for passenger to play on journeys, DVD movies, MP3 storage by the thousands, could set up a satellite navigation system and maybe even engine tuning software installed and permanently connected to your cars computer for tuning
But most of all it would be VERY unique and sure to win a lot of votes at future shows
What you guys think?
You think it's feasable or am i just wasting my time