Speedrye build

He!! Yeah I love it

iPad in the visor?!

Not quite. 9" quad view monitor to install flush in the visor. It can display one, two or all four cameras at once. I've ordered two cameras so far, just to play with and get an idea where I want cameras to be mounted.

is it actually gonna fit?? i hope it does...awesome idea....

Speedrye wrote:

Haha, I've also got another fun project in the works. Take a look at the picture below and you should be able to add up all the pieces and understand what my next bad idea is...

Color me interested! Looks like a monitor is going in a visor but I'm not sure whats up with the frame.

Speedrye wrote:

Not quite. 9" quad view monitor to install flush in the visor. It can display one, two or all four cameras at once. I've ordered two cameras so far, just to play with and get an idea where I want cameras to be mounted.

Awesome!

bigdogdewey2 wrote:

is it actually gonna fit?? i hope it does...awesome idea....

Oh yeah, it'll fit. I'm not entirely sure how I'll secure it yet, but I'll manage something! This thing is big enough that I could watch TV if I wanted. Now that I think of it, I might add another input and a TV tuner so I can watch TV when the wife is in the store or something.

that would be awesome...how bout just a dvd player...or computer monitor

Nice!

Got some stuff partially installed and in the testing process... AWESOME!

Incredible!

You're unbelievable man. Are you going to have multiple cameras for multiple shots?

Yeah, the screen supports 4 camera inputs. It can display one, two or all four cameras at the same time. I'm not yet sure where the cameras will be mounted yet.

dude that is awesome Ryan...where did you get all the "parts"...ie. screen, cameras, son on and so forth...

Screen

I went with the white screen since it'd be easier to paint than the black.

Cameras

I've picked up two of these so far to try them out. Pretty much all cameras under $100 have mediocre reviews, so I'd start on the cheap end and try them out. Hopefully none of them will be in direct rain anyway, so that might help.

That's really all of the parts. I'll need a little more wire to power each camera, but their video cord is long enough. I'll put a fuse in the new fuse box for the camera system as well, but that's about it.

Very cool idea!

wow so basically all of this for a little over 150....not bad, not bad at all....i might have to lok into this...i like the idea of a spotter from the inside of the truck...

while i was living in Texas i had a rear camera put in my Tundra...well i went with a wireless camera and let me tell ya..it sucked!!! in fact when i went by a certain house on my street the camera or screen actually picked up a wireless transmission from a camera in the house! well needless to say on one particular day i got quite a show from the inhabitants of the home...and ill admit..me and my worker actually stopped and had to watch...LOL...

bigdogdewey2 wrote:

while i was living in Texas i had a rear camera put in my Tundra...well i went with a wireless camera and let me tell ya..it sucked!!! in fact when i went by a certain house on my street the camera or screen actually picked up a wireless transmission from a camera in the house! well needless to say on one particular day i got quite a show from the inhabitants of the home...and ill admit..me and my worker actually stopped and had to watch...LOL...

"my worker"

It was just you in the truck wasn't it

lol...noooooo it was me and my helper...small construction and home repair business...

hey Ryan..how heavy does it make the visor? still able to have it hang without it falling down? how much did you have to cut out of it? deep??

I pretty much had to cut everything out for it to fit. The visor is spring loaded quite well and easily holds the extra weight of the monitor. The visor is outer vinyl, foam layer, cardboard layer, foam layer and outer vinyl again. At the top and bottom are ~1/8" steel wires that provide the rigidity for the visor.

ok so my next question is ...how is the monitor secured into the visor? im really liking this mod and install and interested in possibly doing this myself...(not me doing it ...you doing it for me!! LOL)...

I fabbed up some sheet metal panels and slid them between the layers of the visor. I notched them to fit the rear screen bracket and secured everything as seen. Routing the wire was a bit of a pain, but I got it in the end.

ok WOW...man thanks for the reply that is awesome..dude you may be one of the smartest guys i know...that is just awesome...