That said, how do I start talking about projects that i've been underway for years? I guess I'll just start talking about what's getting worked on (modified) and fill in the back story as needed, or as time allows. of course I reserve the right to modify the process.....
Thursday evening we will head south to NYC for the weekend. A friend of mine from the west coast will be working at the International Motorcycle show and I haven't seen him for years. We're driving the mini and I'm tired of hauling a couple dozen CD's with us on every road trip which of course means we should just bring the ipod.
I guess I could just buy an interface but as is often the case there are several and they range in quality and price. Of course I decided I should just build one.
The simplest connection is to pick up the headphone signal out and just wire that into the aux input of the factory head unit where the CD changer would connect.
Pros: Pretty simple and straight forward.
Cons: None of the song info displays on the head unit and you have to do all the navigation via the ipod directly.
I've been reading up a bit on the pin-outs for the ipod and it looks like a USB plug could be wired into the aux input of the head unit as above but once the ipod cable was plugged into docking port you get a lot more information that the head unit can display. You also potentially get use of the steering wheel audio control buttons.
I'll post updates and any diagrams I can as this progresses.
