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Originally Posted by jekylltech
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I would like to get a wifi enabled 20GB hard drive installed in my car, so when my PDA is with me I can not only listened to streamed songs while driving, i can also copy them to my SD card so i can listen to them between classes.
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Originally Posted by stv516
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Nice idea, but I doubt if it's feasible 
Do you have access to a wifi hotspot while in your car? if not, I guess you'l have no way to get your PDA and hard drive connected via wifi.
Actually I don't quite understand why you want to get a wifi enabled hard drive for storage. Since your toshiba PDA can do USB hosting, a hard drive with USB interface is good enough and cheaper, isn't it?
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What are you talking about, its totaly feasible. You just need to build a really small formfactor, energy efficent PC. I recomend something like a VIA C3 processor\motherboard at 1 GHz w\ PCMCIA card slot for the 802.11 b card. Then throw in some memory (256 MB will do) and as big a hard drive as you need. Then your all good to go. You can connect the computer and the Pocket PC using Ad-Hoc.
After installing Windows\Linux and setting it up you dont need a display or an optical drive. Then get one of those Cigarette Lighter power adaptors to power it. I also recommend using an external hard drive for the system so you can take the data with you when you need it. An in dash external SD\CF card reader would also be a nice touch.
If you needed to access the computer you could just use z2 Remote 2PC or some other VNC program to control it right from your pocket pc.
This would be cool, you would have to use a PCI 802.11 b card or usb adaptor. Then get a PCMCIA wireless data card and hook up with an unlimited data plan. Your car would be a mobile WiFi hotspot. Man this is sweet, I totaly want to build one of these. I just need a car.