dashpc.com Dashboard Linux Automotive. Basically, it was the first in-car touchscreen mp3, gps, fm radio, bluetooth(eventually), linux based caputer concept pr

dashpc.com Dashboard Linux Automotive. Basically, it was the first in-car touchscreen mp3, gps, fm radio, bluetooth(eventually), linux based caputer concept project. In 1999, it was a full computer retrofitted into the dashboard. By 2003, me and my team were doing conferences (Phreaknic), etc. It was slashdotted a few times and a few mags did writeups about it. Major auto manufacturers were regular visitors to the site (according to the logs). It was in a 2000 VW Jetta and it looked factory. It still lives on in archives, but I failed to turn it into a business or maintainable project. Open source collaboration was still “new” back then and it wasn’t easy to crowdsource capital or form business networks. I was often told to contact my local Small Business Administration for leads (went nowhere). I learned a lot, mostly what not to do, so value was created in some way.