Quote (NewKID @ Apr 17 2015 03:44pm)
could i use this as a head-unit for my car?
Potentially if you bundled it with software which communicated over serial.
You will likely need to create custom software for the screen.
When you press on something it sends a serial command to what ever it's connected to saying "button XX has been pressed" and it is up to the receiving software to figure out how to react to it.
Although this interfaced into a RPI or something would be decent for a car once the software side is handled.
It's really not that hard to do if you have a basic understanding of serial and basic programming knowledge
For example it *might* work something like this"
Code
buttonPlay = 0x40
buttonNext = 0x41
buttonPrevious = 0x42
message = Serial.get_message
case message
when buttonPlay
MediaPlayer.play
when buttonNext
MediaPlayer.next
when buttonPrevious
MediaPlayer.previous
end