aidilj worklog

After a quick demo to officemates they commented that the glare is too much. An idea from Jarance is that to tilt the screen to not reflect directly from any window. So I’ve decided to to tilt the screen down to mirror towards rear seat instead of rear window. Visibility increase tremendously. Current orientation.

Also reverse camera and GPS mouse arrival. The reverse camera is going to be installed during CNY break, planning to include a manual switch so that it can be used when not in reverse as well The GPS mouse uses SIRF III chip and has magnetic base. Locking time is good, planning to put it behind the instrument cluster.

Also bought a supposedly anti-glare screen protector to replace the factory one. This is originally made for Galaxy Tab. We’ll see how good this one works, the protector is quite milky (promising).

The bezel arrived in the week as expected, it looks great and the finish is good enough that I’m happy to install it without respraying. An expected hack is required to fit the screen to the bezel as the bezel is intended for double din. The lcd is held onto the frame with epoxy. After everything was fine, wiring harness was done and the computer was installed into the car. Everything work the first time without much drama. The CPU is installed in the glovebox so a hole had to be cut to fish wire through. Okay, now to pictures.

the LCD removed from the frame

wiring harness

ta da

things that couldn’t be tested on the bench, GPS NMEA stream is transfered from 205W via GPSgate. Ibus interface works like a charm.