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exedy699 10-23-2013 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Glambutang (Post 2427667)
Hey sorry if response is a little late, got busy with school and other project but will have almost entire august to myself and will definitely finish whats been started. Ill answer your questions as follows:

1) Just as a heads up i do electronic repairs for living so every step was planned out before i started, but without experience you might end up spending more time figuring things out. But as of fabrication you would have to have to have basic soldering skills, you dont actually have to solder anything to the iPad itself only the wires, even cheap 10$ solder from radio shack will do. And you will have to have basic understanding how ipad hardware works, and how everything is connected in it.

2) Ive had it mounted for over a month now, and been driving my car daily, and driving to ny from buffalo almost every weekend, and so far so good. There is no rattle and nothing got disconnected, because all the insides are reinforced with zipties, really good quality adhesives, and the structure of the mount itself makes every part go where it supposed to. Only modification that i have done was that i built a box from plexiglass around motherboard and installed small fan from macbook, i just had one laying around but any laptop fan will work just fine, and i powered it directly from the power outlet from under the glovebox, but honestly i feel like if you have tints and ac running you dont need to do this. iPad prevents itself from overheating.

3) Total actually comes out really cheap. Only thing, you might end up buying few thing online because local stores dont carry them, but as i already mentioned I had most things needed before i started. But here is the brake down of prices.
1. iPad itself- whichever model you buy I would highly suggest buying it from walmart with accidental damage warranty which is 30$ extra in case something goes wrong you can always get a brand new one to work with. Even though I already had one, still bought another one just for the car.
2. Tools, you would need dremel with extra bits (50$), solder and soldering stuff~ 15$.
3. adhesive you can buy some at you phone repair shop ~5$, zipties~ 2$, lightning cable ( only buy a real one only from apple) 30$, if you want to glue glass to the lcd so picture is brighter on sunny days you would need LOCA and UV gel nail polish curing booth together is 60$, This part is actually where you need experience because you are running a risk of messing up the LCD screen.
Laptop fan 5$, wires and controller for the fan another 5$, flex extensions for cameras 20$
4. The surface frame that goes around the iPad ive made one myself the one on the pictures above costed me 10$ in material, but ive contacted a shop that can make me a nice looking one out of fiberglass and painted to match interior on wrapped in any material 275$. This is the part where if you have experience in fabrication you will save a lot. For the actual frame that holds the ipad i used stock cubby compartment and cut it with dremel here and there to fit everything in perfectly.
So assuming that you have ipad and tools everything will run under 100$, and depends on the surface frame how you want to make it look and who makes it price will vary. Honestly the sufrace frame is strictly for the looks it has no function at all and can easily be clipped on and off, you can even end up making few different once :)
But if you have any questions and in case you will actually end up doing one yourself im willing to help. :tiphat:

Resurrection for you thread!
Thanks for all the advice and tips. :tiphat:

Not sure if you've been online lately Glambutang, but I am reaching out to you!:hello:

How's the ipad holding up? I am starting to look at the idea of doing a similar install to yours. Any more pictures or insight?

Glambutang 12-04-2013 07:01 PM

Hey everything technical has been done, and so far no issues at all everything works the way it was supposed to, nothing fell off, nothing caught of fire either, and its been almost 6 month. Added few software tweaks.
So where it stands is that im still trying to find somebody who can help me make fiberglass bezel, but really had no time. If somebody on this forum can make me one ill pay good amount just pm me. So eventually once i get it done 100% ill do the full write up with pictures and update for ipad mini with retina.

Wiggins3377 12-04-2013 07:07 PM

I'd suggest looking into getting the OEM navigation bezel. There would be some tweaking for sure including cutting the opening to fit the display and filling in the part for the keyboard, but it would look the cleanest. I've been wanting to do this for awhile but other mods have come first. Plus with the retina mini I'm glad I waited. It's definitely a spring 2014 task. Do you know if there is anything that you can hook up to the ipad to control song selection with the steering wheel? I thought about the isimple awhile back and haven't looked into it recently.

Glambutang 12-04-2013 07:24 PM

The problems with oem navigation that i see are that there would be less space for ipad internals, its expensive, buttons would be useless, and you'll have to reach way out there.

I am aiming for genesis coupe's look http://media.bestofmicro.com/2013-hy...-349846-22.jpg, frame like that would be perfect.
For steering wheel control you can either keep the stock head unit or http://www.the370z.com/audio-video/1...l-pioneer.html because ipad is hooked up to the headunit. I personally dont need it I control music through my pebble watch.

And i am waiting on jailbreak for the new ipad to come out, because without jailbreak you will lose a lot of features. For example right now my ipad unlocks when i turn on the car and locks when power is lost.

H2O_Doc 12-04-2013 07:48 PM

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/05/repavure.jpg
Not as elegant, but maybe you could be happy getting an nGroove. It holds an ipad mini no problem and can be mounted in the cd slot or any number of other places (please, not in the pooper).

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/05/gy3yjy5e.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/05/pyty8a6u.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/05/5y2udehe.jpg

Here is an unrelated photo that I include for your viewing pleasure:

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/05/esy4eja4.jpg

Meulen 12-04-2013 09:14 PM

Sub'n for some more ideas for mine! Nice work so far!

frk0 01-13-2014 11:34 PM

http://i564.photobucket.com/albums/s...02IPADDASH.jpg

zefaulter 01-19-2014 02:37 PM

Looks good. Removable too, it looks

ray0914 02-15-2014 08:41 PM

How did you do this? Could you explain how to install?

Glambutang 03-24-2014 03:48 AM

Hey guys, sorry for bumping an old thread its been a while since i promised to post diy, work, school, winter, plus got rear ended -_-
But now im happy to announce that project is 100% complete and I will be posting complete diy this following weekend! :)

Along with that for those who don't want to strip their car or iPad apart a good friend of mine designed a frame in autocad for easy install. I will post the .dwg file, along with pictures and step by step process. With that file you will be able to cut out frame on cnc machine, and if you don't have access to one there are plenty people on ebay who offer cnc service for under $30. What keeps entire project under $50. It looks really good.

In addition to all stated above im working on few modifications which will let you read text messages without looking away from the road, and controlling the ipad by hand motion without actually touching the iPad, sorta like in the video bellow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHBF2I4WQi4

Stay tuned...

alan49121 04-01-2014 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Glambutang (Post 2750549)
Hey guys, sorry for bumping an old thread its been a while since i promised to post diy, work, school, winter, plus got rear ended -_-
But now im happy to announce that project is 100% complete and I will be posting complete diy this following weekend! :)

Along with that for those who don't want to strip their car or iPad apart a good friend of mine designed a frame in autocad for easy install. I will post the .dwg file, along with pictures and step by step process. With that file you will be able to cut out frame on cnc machine, and if you don't have access to one there are plenty people on ebay who offer cnc service for under $30. What keeps entire project under $50. It looks really good.

In addition to all stated above im working on few modifications which will let you read text messages without looking away from the road, and controlling the ipad by hand motion without actually touching the iPad, sorta like in the video bellow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHBF2I4WQi4

Stay tuned...

Looking forward to this!


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