It was a good weekend. Aside from seeing our friends’ child’s baptism, Nora and I had some fun enjoying the nice weather, we managed to go food shopping first thing in the morning (where we successfully avoided long lines and short supply), and I installed this in my car:
The panel speaks for itself, I think. It’s a RCA video and audio adapter panel with a 110v plug port (currently not installed, but it’s a trivial installation).
Here’s how it looks after the install:
Good ole’ dremel. I had to cut through the dash to mount this.
The idea is as such: using that cable, I can connect my ipod classic to listen through the head unit and with the video port I can watch videos from my ipod on the overhead LCD which I haven’t installed yet (but I did wire – I simply need to actually install the thing). I will likely put a source selector box somewhere in the vehicle and and run patch cables to somewhere not as obvious.
I actually have a couple of things that can connect to that port, including my dingoo, my laptop, and my PSOne.
By the way, the cable I use for my ipod classic is a $6 cable from hong kong that connects to the 30 pin port on the bottom of the ipod, not the headphone jack. It sounds so very much better than the headphone jack – words cannot describe, it just has to be heard. It should work with all ipods and iphones/itouches not using 3.0 firmware. Totally worth the modification. Project blog entry should be forthcoming by week’s end.
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