I'm into photography and carry my Canon Digital Rebel everywhere. I have two 512MB Lexar Pro CompactFlash Cards and occasionally they'll fill up when I'm out shooting miles from a PC where I can dump them. My car PC to the rescue. I pondered where to put a CF reader in my car, but it was very clear the only cool place to put it was INSIDE the Lilliput LCD. I bought a Dazzle USB2.0 CF Reader and tore the guts out. This left me with a small board that looked easy enough to fit in the deep LCD, but it got very big when I tried to close it inside of the case. After trying two or three positions and ripping out the internal speaker, I settled on a top-loading position and mounting the PCB where the touchscreen interface was mounted. I moved this to the center of the board, inverted to make it low enough to fit and hot glued both the touchscreen and CF reader PCB into place.
CF Reader Mod

(0.1) LCD innards and the CF reader in action. The CF reader PCB is unwired in the center picture, to the left.
So, for the longest time, putting a PC in the place I spend about 2 hours every day has been a goal of mine. I finally got up the gusto to do it. My 01' Malibu presents, the Car PC... After a lot of browsing I came up with a shopping list with a he
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