Making your own touchscreen overlay

[velj]

Hey guys
Was looking in the Internet an wondering what would be needed for a touchscreen overlay DIY, it doesn't seem that hard, does anyone have any ideas of what would be needed for a Maloo head unit series 1,

Once I get all information I can put together a few kits and send them out realllllllly cheap if anyone is intrested?

Thanks

[ZerOne]

A couple of members here have already done this.

One of them has documented what he has done, and what is required on South Coast Commodores.
http://www.southcoastcommodores.com.au/ ... f=8&t=1940

I have converted an Old ASUS eeePC to touch screen, using one of these touch screen kits, and the thing worked a treat.

It looks like the biggest problem is a nie way of wiring the touch screen wires from the fascia, back to the headunit.
(If you ever wanted to remove the fascia quickly that is).

I would be interested in seeing what incar PCs people are running with.
I think current crop of iPad in car PC solutions are very kludgy. (Running a Can adaptor that converts can to IP, then using a wifi adaptor to allow the iPad to connect to the Can adaptor is too many links in the chain, just to use an iPad).

Ultimately I would like to see something with a very fast boot time (Flash Memory), low standby power consumption, hardware Serial ports, hardware and software screen dimming for day/night viewing, and easily accessable hardware wakeup / sleep input.
(Maybe pick up when the LCD backlighting is powered up, and use this to wakeup / sleep the board).

I have an Arm hardware developer kit, that I bought a looong time ago, that runs an Arm flavour of Linux, as well as WinCe5.
Though these days, I would prefer something that ran andriod, so it was really touch friendly.

Something like the open source beagle boards that are out there
http://www.liquidware.com/shop/show/BB- ... leBoard+C4

Has GPIO for controlling stuff, UART (For Can integration), SD Card support, Andriod, etc, etc...

[velj]

True il have a look when I'm home, do you no how they can connect it to te iPhone? Like the demon8 kit?