Picked one up last year for $99 and love it, wife uses it everyday for shopping list & todo.

I finished closing in the back side of the dash and fixing my screw up last night. Now I am cleaning up the design before I start on the tabs for mounting!

I'm also talking to a few different reps on screens to find a good monitor for the build for my next steps. So far the front runner is a really nice looking infrared touchscreen. Take a look and let me know what you think.

http://www.the370z.com/members/asorg...-use-build.jpg

They also sell the framing in black, silver, and gold. But since I will be doing the dash out of carbon fiber it will make more sense to go with black. so that it won't clash as much with the dash color.

Dam! I forgot all about today being Prime Day. Anyhow I'm on the "wait list" for ECHO. ( it will be my 2nd Echo, got the first one for $99.00, when I signed up to join test market for it 6 months ago if not longer) PS - that screen you put a pic of looks great!

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Great looking screen!

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I must have completely looked over this post. Just saw it today.... It would be nice if the Pi had more processing power and unfortunately they were able to get cost down on this by not offering a touchscreen. and for convenience in a car a touchscreen is a must. Otherwise you will have to worry about a toting a mouse and keyboard. Some people may do that anyway but I get the feeling most of us wouldn't want to use a mouse/keyboard to change the radio station or temp every time.

I agree. Got to be a Touch Screen!

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+1 touch screen or not worth it

It's been a slow week on design on my end. I may also be going a bit OCD on the design as well lol. Making sure every point is in the right place.:shakes head:

Progress is still being made though... I plan on spending a lot of time designing this weekend. The goal is to be ready tabs and all by the time I get drawings from the manufacturer on the screen measurements.

On a random note PM me if anyone is interested in a Kinect for Windows. It served its purpose and now I have no more need of it. It's brand new and only used once...

I found another screen option yesterday and wanted to see what you guys thought. I saw a few dimensions on a review of it and it may be too big for the space but I will have to verify it. It also has a lower brightness than the one I posted before but that may not matter in the car. The best thing I found with it was it comes with true 1080P capability whereas most are not for cars. There is also a cheaper one list that looks identical to it that is not true 1080p but can support it less than half the cost. The monitor got really good reviews except the brightness. What do you all think?

Here is a link to the monitor:
PRODUCT- Gechic Corporation

http://www.the370z.com/members/asorg...een-option.jpg

I like it! 15.6" LCD Screen size would definitely make playing PS4 "The Crew" doable!

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I picked up "The Crew" on a weekend sale for my computer on Steam. I've been pretty pleased with the game so far..

Awesome! I'm "Suburu151" on that game & NEED FOR SPEED RIVALS.

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I've been following along with this thread for awhile and am genuinely excited to see where it goes, but I'm not so sure about this screen. I like a lot of things about it, but I'm concerned that the 220 nit rating is kind of low. Not saying that I absolutely don't think it can work, but it doesn't give you a lot of headroom for adjusting brightness, particularly for daytime use. The saving grace is that it has a matte finish, but I'd definitely want to see it in a real world scenario before committing to it.

Hey thanks for your advice, that's kind of where I was at with it as well. The other option on the table right now is 300 nit rated. The nit rating was one of the biggest reasons I haven't pulled the trigger on it yet. The other really awesome thing about this monitor its only 1/2" thick (slightly thicker than an iPad). And could be removed and used as a plug and play screen for consoles, laptops, phones etc...