I hope I don't get in too much trouble for double-posting this (in both the NELOC Forum and the SC430 Forum). I'm one of the very few NELOC'ers with an SC430 so I don't think the two forums have much cross-traffic...and I think both groups might find this interesting.

Along with being a member of Club Lexus and NELOC, I also hang out with a group of CarPC hobbyists from www.mp3car.com.

The locals meets have always been quite loose...4 or 5 cars showing up with a good turnout.

Mp3Car.com is actually based out of Baltimore and, about 3 weeks ago, they had their first national meet...the AFKFest2009. There was a great turnout (25-30 cars) and lots of professionals from the industry (both specific to the CarPC hobby and to aftermarket audio in general). Along with a BBQ and the obligatory show-off-your-ride portion of the meet, the industry professionals held seminars with Q&A in the morning. It was a great day! Lots of information flowing in both directions.

My CarPC installation was awarded "Technical Best In Show" which was defined as "the car that has the most impressive use of technology" - as chosen by an anonymous technologist.

The link below will take you to the blog page with the video featuring my Car and CarPC installation.




Also, as an interesting side-note, the winners of the contests (myself included) are being interviewed and our photos taken with our cars for a New York Times article (hopefully to be published in October).

 

awesome setup... this gives me all types of poverty inducing ideas.

 

Congrats Habious. Much deserved praise.

 

Congrats Greg

 

congrats! you def deserve it!

 

Very clean set up.......well done Greg. Congrats !!

 

nice Greg, your CarPC dominate mines ...one day i wanna check out Centrafuse as i also have a version but didnt like it that much.

 

congrats man, that is still the sweetest car pc I have seen.

 

Wow . . I remember you from the first Maryland meet I attended. You were there with your wife, no?

Congrats on the award, the setup is jaw dropping.

The guy interviewing you seemed completely lost as you were talking though

 

omg man... tooo technical.. and your passion for such nerdy activities is mindnumbing! hahahaha

on another note, good job man!

 

lol @ nerdy activities..but you know what..i wish i had that in my car!

 

congrats man, good stuff. you lost me a while back with the technical explanation but it was really freakin cool i do remember that much.

 

No internet ? That's like peanut butter with no jelly Clean install

 

Congrats on the award, very well deserved!

 

ditto..good work!