This document will be the closing capture statement of the Concept Development Phase. Requires customer approval.

A computer in your car. Wouldn't it be nice to have the full capabilities of your computer in your car. Well that's the idea for this project. The down side to a computer is the interface. Your not going to drive your car and use a mouse and keyboard at the same time. The goal is to create an interface for most of the functions one would want to have in a car.

have your computer in your car.

Listen to music, play a movie, get directions, anything a computer can do at the touch of a button in your car.

• Play music whether it be mp3s, radio, or cds.
• Play movies on dvd or avis or isos.
• Get directions to where you want to go with gps tracking.
• Get the current weather.
• whatever your computer can do.

People that want a cheap alternative to the expensive in car head units with a display.

This is a low end mini-itx atom based computer with a 1gig of ram.

The hardware should cost under $600 and the time to create should be between 2-3 weeks at 1 FTE.

Most of the products on the market are based around navigation and movie playback. Not many of them allow for more functionality. Since this is a pc it has the capability to do anything a pc can do.

Someone that understands windows development either in MFC or C#. It may be beneficial to port this app to other platforms.

The time it may take me to build this in my free time may take to long and the industry may release something by then.

A computer in your car that can do what you want it to do.