hi i am mark (28)and kind of new here. Through make magazine i got interested in the raspberry pi. I just wondered if the ideas i have are possible with the raspberry pi.
I am thinking automotive and was thinking about my car.
1 - I wonder if the pi can be used with 1 touchscreen (input, and main) and 1 or more output screens (speedometer etc, and other info on the second or more screens). Screensize of main would have to be roughly 6or 7 inches i think maybe (indash dvd player size). the other screens showing info kinda of dependents of the available sizes. I would have a couple of places in mind. But i have absolutely no clue of where i could get what sizes.
2 - Could this same pi also coordinate my light. (I have many leds build in my car, have a couple of remotes. but wish to change over to rgb. in which case i need to know if i could use this pi to set colour scenes.
I have finished an ICT education and worked as all round it manager. but to be honest. i almost never played with linux. thats because i grew from dos5.0 to windows 2.1, 95 xp etc basically worked with every version of windows out there. except win 7 and 8 (hated vista and xp has always worked great for my pc.
As i already figured since the pi works with and ARM based system that means i would not be able to use x86 based systems. but does linux provide enough possibilities to achive that what i was brainstorming about.
Basically trying to figure out what the possibilities are and if i should use the pi or start thinking of another mini pc (nano itx board or something)
thnx in advanc4