Hi! My name is Jonathan Heizer. I am a 24 year old from the United States and work as a .Net Developer. This site contains interest of mine, neat news stories, and progress of projects I am working on.
Sep
28
Everyone that is on a computer wants one thing… INTERNET! Computers and internet access go hand in hand in today’s society. Without email, instant messenger, blogs, up-to-date news, and all the other wonders provided by the internet, a computer is worthless to most people. While your car computer has a specific purpose of delivering endless [...]
Sep
22
I have been trying to keep up with my summer posting rate but it has been hard lately.
First, I spent a lot of time on the redesigning of the site. I have had a bunch of instant messenger converstions with readers telling me how much you like it. Thanks for all the [...]
Sep
20
I am sorry for the lack of new posts over the last few days, but as you can see I have been busy redesigning the look and feel of the site. I think it has turned out great. I still need to touch up a few things, but overall it has come together nicely. I [...]
Sep
14
Before the live demo on Monday, I put in a few hours trying to figure out how to make the bluetooth head set work properly. I got mad a few days ago when I tried to use the microphone with Google Talk. The other person’s voice would not come out of the head set. [...]
Sep
14
What is a CarPC? Types of Computers User Interaction Storage Sound
Sep
14
I gave a live demo of my car computer to a computer group on campus Monday night. Oh what a failure. I finally got my bluetooth headset to work (will post on this soon) and everything. I present to this group a lot and had no better ideas for a meeting besides showing off my [...]
Sep
12
Next in 10 Steps to Understanding Car Computers is sound output.
For computers, there are 3 hardware choices for getting sound out of the computer.
Onboard Sound Card
PCI Sound Card
USB Sound Card
Many motherboards these days come with onboard sound. If you chose VIA conputers then it has an onboard sounds card. They are not the most [...]
Sep
10
The next part in 10 Steps to Understanding Car Computers is selecting the storage medium for your computer. Computers store your data, operating system, and music on a hard drive. The disk drive in desktop computers is 3.5 inches while laptop hard drives are only 2.5 inches. Besides being smaller, laptop hard drives are designed [...]
Sep
9
Computer HardwareAMD XP 1700+KT333 Motherboard512MB 333mhz DDR40GB 3.5 HDLinksys USB 802.11G225 Watt InverterSound Blaster MP3+ USB Sound CardAGP Video CardRealtek Network CardSerial Port Input ButtonsLinksys Bluetooth DoongleLogitech Bluetooth Headset
Sound SystemCerwin Vega Stealth Series 5-1/4Pioneer 3way 6×9Awia CD Player with aux input and 4×45wattsRockford Fosgate 3000.112′ Infinity Reference 1242w Dual Voice SubRockford Fosgate Punch 3001P RMS: [...]
Sep
9
In continuing with 10 Steps to Understanding Car Computers, I will next cover how the user interacts with the car computer. Like everything in car computers, there are numerous choices.
Keyboard
Mouse
Key Pad
Joystick
Voice Recognition
Touch Screen
Display
Character LCD
Touch Screen VGA
LCD Screen Component Video
Character LCD
Touch Screen
The simplest input that a user could make would be using a keyboard with [...]
Sep
8
In the age of the internet and 5 ga-zillion messengers, there are plenty of ways to contact me.
AIM: heezer7
Yahoo: jonheizer
MSN: heezer7@hotmail.com (I don’t check this email)
Google: jheizer
Email: jheizer (at) charter (dot) net
Feel free to send me an email or IM any time. I would love to chat and hear what you have to say.
Sep
8
While working on the intro to car computers series of posts, I realized that I skipped a lot of the basics when starting this blog. Some of you might be wondering who I am and what’s up with this crazy web site. Here I will try to answer a few of your questions.
My name is [...]