anyone foresee any problems with doing this in the cobalt? (if you dont want to watch, its an iPad integration to sit where the stereo is)

YouTube - ‪iPad in Car, Pt. 1, First Ever, SoundMan Car Audio‬‏

 

I'm sure it could be done, people have done more complicated car computer setups before, however, it's gonna look ridiculous because it's so much bigger than the stock radio. You'd have to do a lot of custom dash fabrication to make it look right.

 

I have the I pad 2 and have considered this but just can't pull the trigger on starting the project because of the custom dash work needed

 

Hwy no ****, me an my buddy were jus talkin bout doin this to his S-10 yesterday with a good app/deck/dock it'd be really clean an nwwwoice

 

Thats really awesome.

 

did anyone else wanna punch that guy and take the ******* gum out of his mouth? haha


..sweet idea though

 

ya the cobalt is going to be a mess to try and fit it but gl man. check out this one thou i think it came out way better then the soundman nissan

YouTube - ‪iPad in car‬‏

 

Yeah whatever car that is, it works. Ours... not so much. You could always use a smaller tablet, like a Galaxy Tab or something. Better 7" tablets will come it and then you could be a lot more flexible with projects like this.

 

ehh idk i thought it looked pretty badass too until i saw the fishman one. i think the altima needed like 1/4in bigger dash to look "perfect"

 

that fishman car is insane

 

alottttt of fab work would be needed

 

hm just wire it for power and use wifi for vids n sound ^_^

 

if you integrate an ipad you should get the odb2 ready stuff as well. This stuff isnt new..I mean they've been putting mac mini's and pc's in cars for years. Having a giant touch screen would be nice but it will be fun trying to fit that in a cobalt lol.

 

haha glad i started before I read all the posts, i did a lot of research on how to make plastic and fiberglass and giving it a shot as well as this little mom/pop paint shop down the road (I'm in Germany) is helping me out with advice and all their experience, fabrication is probably 40% done and my wife has all the 3D drawings of it made up so the ipad can pivot and everything, the ipad starts at the top of the stock stereo and goes down to the top of the heat/AC knobs, but we are not building ours in, we are making a custom case for the ipad that will stick to the center bezel and when removed you wont be able to tell, that way we can keep the stock stereo (less likely to have my windows broken and **** stolen)

 

once complete, with what i've learned I can make a mold so I can make duplicates, and I should be able to post a how-to cause we have a lot of pictures of the process

 

wait so ur putting it vert instead of horizontal? or

 

yes it will go in vertically, horizontal would be nice but being realistic, the cobalt is just way to small of a car

 

yup. lol i never even thought of vertically but that should work better. gl man hope it all works out

 

give me a second I'll post a picture, sneak peak of the fabrication process

 

and correction, the original plan was to go vertical, if we build it out from the stock stereo it goes in horizontal, the pics i am about to post are the prototype of the horizontal integration

 

wrap center bezel in plastic to protect it



Then added a box to push the ipad away from the stock stereo.



begin fiberglassing

 

since I cant upload pictures or whatever the issue is, here is the facebook page with pictures Facebook

 

hows that for size? facebook makes it harder to get the direct image but not impossible

 

well thanks, but there ya have it, custom fabrication in progress, oh and by the way, i'm in the ARMY and have NEVER done any fiberglass work before....EVER so hopefully this turns out like i picture it in my head and what we can draw on paper

 

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