A couple of members here have already done this.
One of them has documented what he has done, and what is required on South Coast Commodores.
http://www.southcoastcommodores.com.au/ ... f=8&t=1940I have converted an Old ASUS eeePC to touch screen, using one of these touch screen kits, and the thing worked a treat.
It looks like the biggest problem is a nie way of wiring the touch screen wires from the fascia, back to the headunit.
(If you ever wanted to remove the fascia quickly that is).
I would be interested in seeing what incar PCs people are running with.
I think current crop of iPad in car PC solutions are very kludgy. (Running a Can adaptor that converts can to IP, then using a wifi adaptor to allow the iPad to connect to the Can adaptor is too many links in the chain, just to use an iPad).
Ultimately I would like to see something with a very fast boot time (Flash Memory), low standby power consumption, hardware Serial ports, hardware and software screen dimming for day/night viewing, and easily accessable hardware wakeup / sleep input.
(Maybe pick up when the LCD backlighting is powered up, and use this to wakeup / sleep the board).
I have an Arm hardware developer kit, that I bought a looong time ago, that runs an Arm flavour of Linux, as well as WinCe5.
Though these days, I would prefer something that ran andriod, so it was really touch friendly.
Something like the open source beagle boards that are out there
http://www.liquidware.com/shop/show/BB- ... leBoard+C4Has GPIO for controlling stuff, UART (For Can integration), SD Card support, Andriod, etc, etc...