Touch-screen for a car-puter

[Ashton]

I'm thinking about building a carputer, however the best interface is, of ocurse, a touch-screen (simply because 3/4 of hte time voice command wont work, hell I cant half command Dragon, and it's the best avalible!)

I've talked to a few people and I've basically been told that a touch-screen will be shoddy interface and will die fast unless it's a high-end because of connections corroding from moisture.

The other option I'm looking at is getting a low-end slate-tablet (possibly as low as a 200mhz) and connecting it via ethernet cable (10/100 probably, but hopeing to get 10/100/1000) to a a-ghz mini-desktop under the seat.

Thoughts?

 

[stealth21]

Actually been thinking of doing up one myself. First off tho what are u gonna use it for in the car? Is it gonna be your entertainment centre? I had plans of doing up one also ala cube design but upon further thought would be much of a headache to do so plus u gonna need more external power and such. So i actually thought about getting an Asus eee just for the car as i think it would be great for its purpose and i would actually be able to remove it from the car so it wont be as permament (gets cold here so i dont want the screen and components dying on me because of deep freeze) so i can remove it anytime i want. It would be cool if it could support gps navigation as well as music videos and such inside the car. I actually wanted to somehow get some cameras hooked up to it as well inside the car and maybe some programs which could keep an eye of the cars components but would need a specific software for that i suppose and a whole lot of sensors mounted in the car so i was gonna keep it simple. If u got any ideas or suggestions feel free to say so. If u start a project keep us updated please im very interested as to how it will turn out.

 

[Ashton]

Oh wow, I get more questions than I get answers. lol

I plan on setting it up for navigation, movies, music, internet browsing (directions) possibly VOIP depending on how industrius I get, and, sadly, World of Warcraft...

I acctually would like a display mouonted in the console but I knwo that woudl, at best, be awkward.

I have looked at the UMPC rout but the cost right now is too high. I would pay at least $800 for a decent UMPC, as opposed to $200-$400 depending on how extravagent I set up the devices otherwise.

You dont need a lot of fancy software either, jsut visit X10.com and get the cameras and the PC control software. YOu can even remote-control them over hte internet!