Mazda 2 Radio Mod - 7" Android Tablet Fitting...

[shortfuse12]

hey cosh i've been thinking of doing the samething my question for u is. do u know any work around on the steering wheel controls? i wanna be able to control the volume up and down.

 

[cosh68]

shortfuse12....

I've not delved into this too much but, tried the Android SDK (software development kit) so you could probably write an app to interface from some I/O on the USB to the background controls of the audio player your using, if you taking a tablet apart then you could use open collector opto's or just transistors to work the buttons as if you were pressing them ? its all down to how much you want to play.... the other option is get the details of the button interface & write a comms driver in the SDK to use a serial port or can port to detect the codes from the steering wheel interface ?

Hope this helps....

 

[Mk536]

Man, that is so rad. Sweet mod dude!

 

[Ryno666]

shortfuse12....

I've not delved into this too much but, tried the Android SDK (software development kit) so you could probably write an app to interface from some I/O on the USB to the background controls of the audio player your using, if you taking a tablet apart then you could use open collector opto's or just transistors to work the buttons as if you were pressing them ? its all down to how much you want to play.... the other option is get the details of the button interface & write a comms driver in the SDK to use a serial port or can port to detect the codes from the steering wheel interface ?

Hope this helps....

Oh yeah and the Wii remote will work as well.
I did this in my truck nothing like playing snes,Sega,PlayStation or game boy in lunch break.

I'm on XDA developers site quite a bit rooting and moding lots of stuff you can do to Android.

 

[cosh68]

One of the speakers started rattling so fixed that, pics of the full job for those who need it, ford speaker adapters if your wondering...
again link to keep the traffic down...

http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/cosh68/Mazda%20Speakers/

Hope these are useful for some people....

 

[andyowen22]

Amazing..thanks for the post.

 

[Andres3165]

Great !!!, and I thought I was handy ....

Andres

 

[chumlet]

This is an amazing idea!!

 

[cosh68]

Great !!!, and I thought I was handy ....

Andres

Thanx Andres.... With just a bit of fiddling its amazing what you can do without paying big $

This is an amazing idea!!

chumlet.... Glad you like it, its been in daily use for over a year now & still going strong.....

Shaun....

 

[cosh68]

Its great being able to monitor all the stuff in the car while your driving & having "tell tails"....



But they give the game away when the wife (juliec71) gets in the car & see's where there up to....
mmmmm... how many gallons an hour, what MAF reading (lol2)

Shaun.....