Long Before I Did Marketing... I Built A Car Computer

🚀

🔥

Mar '24 (edited) • 💬 Discussion

Long before I did marketing.

I was an engineer and built stuff like this car computer.

This was back in early 2000.

Long before you could buy anything like this.

I had a removable LCD screen.

(which I had to source from a special vendor)

Even had to have a local sheet metal shop help me build the back for it, so it was removable.

I could play CDs and mp3s.

To do this, I had to write some special software to control the volume and navigate the playlist.

I also had all the emulators so I could pull over and play Mario Kart and Super Mario.

And of course, I had GPS, maps, and navigation.

This was way before Google Maps, so I had to hunt down software.

Google eventually bought the software I was using, and it became the beginning of Google Maps.

I even had to build some of my own electronics in order to connect the GPS to the serial port.

This was still one of the most fun projects I’ve ever worked on.

What’s an old project that you loved?

17 comments

Long Before I Did Marketing... I Built A Car Computer

skool.com/content-academy

Build a profitable content strategy, efficient team & automated process

Leaderboard (30-day)

+10