A friend of mine recently asked if I would write a post about why I decided to get rid of my carputer system and why I chose the gps navigation system that I did to replace it with.

I decided to get rid of the carputer and switch to a gps navigation system for several reasons.

First, it was not portable, and I could not easily move it from car to truck to freinds car.

Second, I never could get it to properly sync with my cellphone so that I could have hands free calling. This was one of the main reasons for a carputer in the first place. I did manage to get it to work early on, but in order to hear the caller I had to pump up the volume then I would get this terrible bass reverberation in the car, it was madness. I tried all sorts of ‘cheap’ mics and nothing helped. I stopped useing the phone integration about a week after it was in place. I am hoping this gps navigation system that I recently won on ebay will not do the same. Continue reading →

Hey everyone! I promised myself that I would post a article on my blog every day for 30 days to increase my search engine ranking.

Well today I am very busy an I can not provide any good content today, unless you want to see more pics of Jack the Dachshund haha. Don’t worry I do have plans for that later plus some videos maybe.

Anyways this is a short and sweet post, nothing fancy. Continue reading →

Ok so I am writing this very simple web page to describe to everyone how I built, and put to use, a car computer aka “carpc” or “carputer” as some call it.

First let me tell you briefly how I got motivated to do such a thing.

There was a time back in 2005 I believe it was, when I traveled from Mississippi to Louisiana quite a bit, and sometimes I would see some really awful accidents
Ok so I am writing this article to describe to everyone how I built, and put to use, a car computer aka “carpc” or “carputer” as some call it.

First let me tell you briefly how I got motivated to do such a thing. …Continue Reading