homemade navigation?
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Forum Name: Mobile Video, GPS, and Navigation
Forum Discription: Mobile Video Head Units, DVD Players, LCD and TFT Monitors, Navigation, GPS, PS2, PS3, XBox, etc.
URL: https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=37816
Printed Date: April 29, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Topic: homemade navigation?
Posted By: blingo
Subject: homemade navigation?
Date Posted: August 20, 2004 at 4:39 PM
anyone have some ideas on making or getting a navigation system for like $200? i have a usb gps device, some software for it, and an xbox if that will help in the car. its not high on my prioritys which is why i want to keep it cheap for now, but just something simple that will work would be cool... i have a spare computer that could be put in the trunk and used, but id rather avoid that. i was thinking maybe making something with the xbox to run it or something..... anyone do anything like this? or anyone have some ideas?
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Posted By: defective
Date Posted: August 20, 2004 at 10:02 PM
go to www.mp3car.com theres about a million people doing it...... sorry man -------------
Posted By: vdubmk4
Date Posted: August 20, 2004 at 10:17 PM
Dude just stop, lol. If you can't afford anything over 200 bucks screen wise then ur shiat outa luck. Cause if you find a screen and components that will do you what you want them to do for under $200 bucks then you can probably plan on spendin $200 bucks each month replacing the one that broke last month. Ha, not to be atagonistic but save ur money for sometin better.
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Posted By: blingonet
Date Posted: August 20, 2004 at 10:39 PM
i already have a $800 indash screen, im looking for an actual gps unit to run the software and whatnot, and i used to have a full pc in my car, but i got rid of it and put an xbox in its place, and i am just trying to get suggestions on a new thing, depending on what it would be, i might have most of the parts (gps receiver and software) so $200 could be plently.
Posted By: ravenndude
Date Posted: August 23, 2004 at 12:28 PM
an xbox is basically a PC ... you can just get a mod chip for it (most of then are just plug ins and no soldering small peices) This will enable you to put an OS on it, put in a larger Harddrive and a faster CD / DVD-ROM
Posted By: blingonet
Date Posted: August 24, 2004 at 12:09 AM
Yeah my xbox is modded, with 160gb hd. I have not added a usb port to it yet, I thought I might be able to use wine and install street atlas 2004 in linux and hope my gps mouse just works... or wait until windows is running a little better on it. just wondering if there would be a better way, that im not thinking of right now...
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