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Old 06-22-2009, 01:07 PM   #19 (permalink)
NiHaoMike
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Originally Posted by SVOboy View Post
I dont have the room under the dash for that
Look at one of those mini-ITX boards in real life. They are smaller than they seem to be in pictures. I know you can find some place to put it.
And if you put an array of capacitive touch sensors under the keypad, you can get Prius-III-like "touch tracer" ability. Use a small video LCD as a display. (A good source is a portable LCD TV. Now that the digital transition has happened, it shouldn't be too difficult to find one for cheap.)
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