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What is a CarPi?A CarPi is a Raspberry Pi with a 7 inch touch screen and optional audio DAC packaged together and mounted on a vehicle headrest support. It's meant to run Kodi or any other preferred media software to handle playing movies and games to keep passengers entertained.Why?This idea was born roughly 3 years ago when our kids got bored of always watching the same dvds, or worse fighting over who got to watch a dvd, in the portable headrest dvd players. We frequently travel several hours to see family, so we needed some form of entertainment, enter the Raspberry Pi. I wanted to make something capable of holding several movies, possibly games, and in a small self contained form factor. The original design I made 3 years ago involved buying an ipad headrest mount and throwing the ipad mount away and using the headrest mount. It used a tab design to mount the Raspberry Pi assembly where you would push it in and pull down to lock it in, but there were issues. Mainly fitment was
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