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Mac Prius

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Audio and Electronics' started by kinghuang, Feb 20, 2006.

  1. kinghuang

    kinghuang Member

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    I came across this link on Gizmodo about someone who hooked up his Mac to a Prius and got Front Row running. The most interesting part is that he wrote a Perl script to read and interpret the touch screen data to control Front Row.

    http://www.kusnetz.net/prius/
     
    #1 kinghuang, Feb 20, 2006
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    Man, that is so damn NUTZ! Hack the Prius!
     
    #2 icefire, Feb 20, 2006
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    I want to hire someone to do this to my new 06 - anybody in the L.A. area?
     
    #3 ribbs, Feb 28, 2006
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    I really hate to be the one to break this to you but this is old news, but very good news!
     
    #4 hdrygas, Feb 28, 2006
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    I like it :D. I ditched the idea of using the MFD as a carputer screen a long time ago. I'm glad someone has it figured out. However, even now, I would just prefer the computer video output to a seperate touchscreen since the MFD is displaying my CAN-View data already.
     
    #5 Presto, Mar 1, 2006
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    Nothing like this for a PC??
     
    #6 marc8773, Mar 2, 2006
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    the guy who did that is a member of this site. You could ask him to see if he would be willing to do it for you
     
    #7 maggieddd, Mar 2, 2006
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    I'm him, and I'm on the wrong side of the country. :)

    Once I'm done with everything I'm hoping my site will make it clear how anyone can do this.

    I'm leaving to go on vacation for a week and 1/2 so progress will stop until then. I pretty much have audio working thanks to Norm. I have the CAN-view driving a relay to switch the audio inputs into the JBL amp. Of course this will only work with a prius with the JBL option.
     
    #8 jkusnetz, Mar 2, 2006
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    Now that the mac mini has front row installed, with a remote to boot, the key is to figure out how to mount this thing so you can use the remote.
    Are you going to look into doing that?
     
    #9 thundermustard, Mar 3, 2006
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