kcalvano

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I've been working on this for a while and finally got all the parts together that I needed to start assembly. Please keep in mind that I am not finished, excuse the little hiccup as the lcd rises, but I don't have the actuator mounted yet. It does work great in both directions. It's a bit noisy, but I plan on insulating around the motor to help that. I will also have a series of toggle switches at the bottom, line driver/eq, and the other big hole is for a 7" android device and I plan on having it dock-able. I tested the line driver with my android phone, and the sound is surprisingly pretty good. I also upgraded to polk audio speakers and amps.



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omsin523

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Thats sick. Nice work bro, post pics of final product. And also are you talking about that android tablet?

glenns280

ur a crafty lil ****

kcalvano

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kcalvano

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Thanks man I just wanted to see if I could pull this off and keep it looking as stock as possible. I'll be updating in the next few days.

kcalvano

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These labels will be placed above the rocker switches at the bottom. I had them made at gaugeplates.com. Jon, the power to be, did a fantastic job at fabricating these for me,

omsin523

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so back to my question, are you talking about running a tablet powered by android?

Glex25

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I like it

You can probably make the shaft more compact where it is going into
another shaft like a antenna so you can have more real estate behind the dash

str8dum1

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pretty neat

GeauxLadyZ

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This is really really cool.

Can you make it so the screen doesnt go so high above the opening so you dont see the lift brackets?

kcalvano

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Thanks guys,

Yes, you will not be able to see the brackets when I am finished.

gvulakh

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Nice!!! Can't wait to see it all finished up.

Glex25

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Can you make one for me and will this support 7" monitor

or post a DIY

exZilaration

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Nice work. Will the actuator be that noisy?

MDK

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who else has a string symphony that plays to open their lcd?

kcalvano

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Man, I hope not, I didn't realize that those little things are so noisy. I'm planing on packing around the actuator with some type of insulation.

Quick update,

cdoxp800

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Very cool.. Sub'ed

Barnabas

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very nice!! I just got my wife a 7" android tablet for christmas. Cant wait to see how you rig this all up!

MDK

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Too bad you can't see the gauges behind the screen...

kcalvano

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Yeah, kinda sucks I only have view of the left most gauge. I'm planning on only using it as a backup monitor. But if I do leave it up, ill be installing a software program on the Android device called "torque" which plugs into the obd2 port, so ill be able to display the hidden gauge info if necessary.