Things To Do With Your Car And Your Gp2x

[jmetal88]

My car speakers are so lousy that I managed to blow out the two back ones using a Durabrand stereo (yes, that's Wal-Mart's cheapo brand).

 

[Guyfawkes]

My brother has been building his in car entertainment system over the past few months. Its got:

- 5 LCD screens (2xsun visor, 1xsmall screen where the clock used to be and 2x head rest)
- Pioneer CD/DVD etc player
- Dolby 5.1 speaker system + extra speakers for music
- an in car freeview receiver (digital TV for those outside UK)
- two wireless video cameras (1x at front and 1x back of car, plugs upto LCDs)
- Ipod with connector to control via the Pioneer player
- Xbox
- Probably some other stuff, hes got so many boxes cant remember it all

I was going to plug up the GP2X to it but the TV cable I bought was broke so I returned it. I will probably try it again when a cased Bob is released.

I cant do any photos yet as my brother is still building it all up (he took it apart and restarted a few weeks ago), currently there is no dashboard in the car When he had the first setup it was quite cool, was watching The Business when driving around central london with the roof down and had loads of people trying to get in the car to watch the film, it was like a mobile cinema

 

[tim0391]

love the mod great work do you think this could power a gp2x in a car

this is from


Car moron lighter sockets are an excellent source of reasonably high current 12 volt power.

You can't suck the full continuous current capacity of the car battery out of them - that'd be an easy hundred amps, as various people whose auto electrical adventures have started fires behind their dashboards can testify - but as I discovered when I wrote a review a while ago, an ordinary moron lighter can be expected to draw around eight amps at 12 volts. The moron lighter's fuse will pass a fair bit more than that.

You should therefore have no trouble running loads of well over a hundred watts from a moron lighter socket. The 2.5 watts that a USB port can output is nothing at all by comparison.

Add to this a simple, modern, cheap DC to DC converter to drop 12 volts to USB's 5V, and the creation of a device like this...