I haven't gotten into changeing the themes or anything yet, but my car Xbox project has been a very long WIP, and continues to be

There is NO INVERTER powering the Xbox. It is a custom made power supply that runs directly on 12V (made by myself), with a battery backup to keep the xbox powered up during engine cranks.

-v 1.4, tsop flashed
-128mb ram
-100gb laptop HDD



Thanks to team Blackbolt for giving a very kickass skin to show off in my car... people think it's a real 360

More pics. Now.

Thats pretty damn sweet

I second what johnnywikked said. More pics. Now.

And I'll add a please.

Hell I think that deserves a website with a whole thing on how you did it, and everything of that sort.

Damn....


How do you control that puppy? A remote?

Very nice indeed...

Questions:

What do you use it for?
Why in such a stange place?... Gear stick must get in the way of seeing ful screen.
What type of car?

But again very nice indeed.

Has yar car ever been pimped in "PIMP MY RIDE",the MTV show?
That is cooool.

Wow, Kick Ass

Looking nice, i like the position of the screen, did you make a custom housing for it or is it a motorized screen?

I like the idea of installing the steering wheel and pedals on the passenger side like you have done, and just getting chauffeured everywhere whilst you play the xbox

Here's mine. I started doing some similar stuff for the other guys in my car club. Using a 700watt inverter though, for xbox, and anything else i might need someday. I'd be interested in knowing how you made a 12v supply that works good. PM me sometime if ya get some time.




Nothing beats playing Forza with about 800watts RMS of audio, and 1600watts RMS of Bass crankin!!! Those crashes take me by surprise EVERY time!!! LOL

How long does your car battery last, a week? Jesus.

Haha.

Naw, i have 2 batteries, and a 1.5mf stiffening cap for the surges. I don't really ever use it with it off. When i show it sometimes when at car shows, i plug it in using an ac 12volt charger.

I have a pretty sad set up to use MC360/XBMC:



Don't Laugh...its what MC360 was made on..!

Dang Blackbolt, Gamecube, VCR, you have everything...

where are the sheets for your bed? i'm amazed at the mc360 work, but you can concentrate on your money making too.

Notice the book/video/game case is perfectly organized!

Its nothing to laugh at Blackbolt! Alot better then my setup. Hell I dont even got a room!!! For the last year and a half parents living rooom is my room lol! Damn cats....

The sheets where in the wash. How DARE YOU!

I call Photoshop on this one. Look at the clarity in the screen, and the blurriness of everything else. . . also the jagged edges on the edge of the screen, not to mention the jaggies between the screen and the steering wheel. Not even a GOOD Photoshop job! LOL!

Imagine Blackbolts setup, now i magine what it would look like if you took a running dive into it...

this is how i roll...


my place- unclean by any standards.

Wow, that's messy...

Here's mine

I actually just cleaned the place up last night, so it's not nearly as messy as it usually is
and please excuse my camera...it's a piece of junk.

Edwin, is that controller one of them Logitech Wireless dealies? I am looking into getting one, but I want to know what they are like!



Just noticed that, lmao. Its not a competition.

oh yeah, washing sheets. shoot, when did i last wash my sheets? man, thanks for reminding me. and greenfield, i can't believe that's where your designs come from. haha.

i'll post my setups later tonite when i'm off work.

I have one of the black logitech wireless controllers...I love it, my only complaint is that the trigger is very sensitive, so you have to be carefull otherwise you'll be playing halo and accidentally throw like three grenades, or playing an emulator and accidentally start fastforwarding. Also, it goes into sleep mode, which is a good thing since it saves batteries, but some people find it annoying cause you have to press a button to reactivate it. just pressing the d-pad or joysticks doesn't reanimate it. Seems to go through batteries fairly quickly, but they have a newer version of the one I bought that's purple or something and it's supposed to last for like 1,000 hours or some ungodly long time. It is a very high quality, well-made controller though. I don't think I'd use a wireless controller made by anyone else.

I love mine. It took a while to get used to at first, since I used to be an S-controller only person; but now I prefer it over the S-controller. I bought a wireless headset to go with it too, now everything's wireless

These pics are hard to see because my video camera takes crappy stills anyways, heres my regular TV that I mostly use



If im feeling beefy, i'll use beefy

Blackbolt, I just noticed from your photo (and now from your stats) that you don't own an Xbox 360. How in the heck did you produce the skin without the original examples to work off of? The only 360 I've seen is walking by the brats playing (if you could call it that) the demo at Target. I'd be utterly lost if someone asked me to describe the dash, much less re-create it for a different platform.

Simply amazing.

Correct me if am wrong but I remember when he started that he did not have one and that he was using pics for reference.
Well done to say the least....there is no hi-def version and it still does justice to even large hd screens.

got enough xbox's there?

Yep all artwork was created with only low res examples available from Google Image search. I have probably played on a real 360 in GAME (UK version of EB) for about 10 mins, using the dash for about 30 seconds then at a friends house playing a single race of PGR3 before shooting off. So i have had less than 30 mins with a real 360. The closest I have come to a 360 is using my Wired XBox 360 controller on my PC for gaming.;

It was a struggle but I think I did well, with the help of the team I worked with.

I'll add my vote for the Logitech wireless controllers too. I've got two of them and they are great. I had extension cables on my standard controllers that made the cables 4 metres long so we could sit back far enough from the TV (154cm TV). That worked fine but was always prone to someone walking over them and tripping and possibly bring my XBOX crashing to the floor. Not good! The wireless controllers feel better without the cable weighing them down too.

The only real problem is batteries. It's a real bummber if they go flat just before you get that high score you have been trying to get for months. I use rechargables. Just make sure you have another set handy.

Ah, don't be hate'n on my ride. It's definitely not photoshop'd. Although i am skilld with photoshop a bit, it's Just the way that picture looks. Here's some better ones to prove it. Enjoy!!

very nice car setup dude, I'm hoping to do something similar to my skyline

I also love the wireless controllers. have two of them and can't fault them (except when the batteries go flat! )

Here's a shot of my setup. 42" LG HD Plasma, Samsung HT-DS1000 theatre system. v1.6 Xbox with 320gb hdd running off Monster Gamelink 400X component cables @ 720p.

Using MC360, of course

(sorry about the poor quality, I took that photo at 6am and it was dark, so I needed to use the flash and it made the screen look shyte. Will take a better photo during the day on the weekend)

Where the magic happens
this is where I do my coding on the skin I got a better set up out in the lounge

What state are you in Jezz? I'm in WA.

How bout this?

Here's my setup

I am sorry for the size of pic

the photograph and takes care, that has to change since



ps : sorry my angl is very bad

i've got two: one in the bedroom and the other in the living room. this is where all the magic happens...the xbox magic.

I would like to see a hi-res version of that last one, thats a damn fine neat set up.

Ok going a bit OT here but I also want to add my vote to the Logitech Wireless controller. I got one this past December.

One thing I dont agree with is everyones who's mentioned it says its a battery hog... Ive not changed the batteries yet at all since I opened the package. Using 2 double A Lithium Energizer Batteries. 10 bucks, and like I said since I got it in Dec never changed the batteries. I've noticed recently that the vibration feature isnt as strong anymore, so I'll prolly change them soon, but still completley functional.

How many hours a day do you all use yours? (maybe Logitech controller posts should be made into a new thread?)

darn it, i deleted the picture already after i resized it. i guess i'll take another one later.

Alright, either it's real or your REAL GOOD at Photoshop. Damn you and your sweet ride .

Hey thanks a bunch. My other xbox in my house has some vinal material i bought at some specialty store that changed colors completely depending on the angel your looking at it. I'll try to take some pictures of that one. That one i have my blue lcd installed and irmod with 300gig hard drive, and 1 usb port added. The one in my car has a 250gig drive in it.

well heres mine



Half way through sticking the xbox in an old pc case. And yes im just using a standard PC dvd rom for it.

The cats name is Scar and he falls down the back sometimes when he is sleeping also his tail sometimes drapes over the screen

Direct replacement of STANDARD P.C. dvd rom for XBOX[w/out y feeding cable stuff] ???

not sure what you are on about Y feeding cable stuff?

If you mean a Y molex splitter yes im using one of them and ive had to change the IDE cable to a longer one.
This drive is much better, it reads all discs except original games, but i have another unmodded xbox just for live so no worries with that.
I cant eject the DVD tray from the dashboard and the little open eject tray at the bottom of mc360 i useless but im not worried about that just now.
The system seems to be running a bit cooler but ive not properly tested it yet.

Voltron, have you seen my keys??

Jezz X what skin/theme are you using in that pic you posted?

As I'm looking for a change and that one looks pretty class

My carbon Fibre one from the main website