Geek My Ride: Build the Ultimate Tech Rod (ExtremeTech) | 
 enlarge | Author: Auri Rahimzadeh
Creator: Steve Wozniak
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 159285
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 455
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0764578766
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.27
EAN: 9780764578762
ASIN: 0764578766
Publication Date: May 6, 2005
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Product Description
Roll up your sleeves and get ready to totally tech-out your ride! Geek My Ride is the first do-it-yourself guide to installing a variety of awesome projects that will turn your ordinary vehicle into the ultimate tech rod! Car hacker Auri Rahimzadeh guides readers through 15 cool projects, complete with tools, skills and step-by-step instructions. Geek My Ride goes way beyond factory options and teaches readers how to install a custom car PC, with Wi-Fi, Internet access, and more. Dive into installing video gaming systems, video surveillance, LED message boards, and more. You'll even learn to how get your car's new MP3 player to sync with your home music collection wirelessly when you pull into the garage! Foreword by Steve "Woz" Wozniak.
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Roll up your sleeves and get ready to totally tech-out your ride! Geek My Ride is the first do-it-yourself guide to installing a variety of awesome projects that will turn your ordinary vehicle into the ultimate tech rod! Car hacker Auri Rahimzadeh guides readers through 15 cool projects, complete with tools, skills and step-by-step instructions. Geek My Ride goes way beyond factory options and teaches readers how to install a custom car PC, with Wi-Fi, Internet access, and more. Dive into installing video gaming systems, video surveillance, LED message boards, and more. You'll even learn to how get your car's new MP3 player to sync with your home music collection wirelessly when you pull into the garage! Foreword by Steve "Woz" Wozniak.
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Geek My Ride August 3, 2006
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
they have some really interisting stuff about how to put a PC in your car!!you should get it if you like cars or if you like computers
 the book cover is really pretty May 25, 2006
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
(My review of "Geek my ride")
"Very unprofessional" This is what every un experienced pc wiz and unknowledgeable custom ride street pro has thrown in there brand new bubble chevy on dub quads. If you already know that it takes a regular house plug to plug in a pc, game console or whatever it is you're desire to bring from "crib" to "auto" (having an inverter is needed). thanks to "GEEK MY RIDE" they let you know that. -duh- they also jerry rig glue scissors and tape oh yea lots of fashionable Velcro plus most of there projects lack experience. putting a book together for a geek is clumsily easy these days. and what's even really neat is now "geek('s) in question" can tell his or her com padres they've been published. everything in this book can be learned by watching a downtown crack-head (given the chance) putting a computer in a vehicle.
my copy is being recycled by now, way of-
"the old blue bin"
H. Stephen williams, consumer 06'
 Made it all look like fun, and very easy to understand December 19, 2005
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This was awesome - from the intro chapters to the projects, I could get into everything. It was very easy to understand and when spring comes around I'm gonna try it (it's pretty cold right now). I'll definitely get the music-in-car stuff done this winter, but the more complex stuff will have to wait for spring.
 Making a 400 page book from 75 pages of content October 3, 2005
32 out of 36 found this review helpful
I won't argue that there is some worthwhile stuff in here, and there are mentions of product names and websites that may prove useful. Many will even find the information presented worth the purchase price.
However, don't purchase this book thinking you are getting anything close to 400 pages of content. To begin with, there are many pictures, each using up half a page. That sounds good, right? Nope, the pictures show such things as an ethernet cable, a Dremel sanding bit, a picture of an extension cord and a pcture of how to use a measuring tape to measure a piece of Velcro.
More depressing, you get to look at these pictures several times, as well as read much of the content over and over. Each chapter is written as if there were no preceeding information, so you'll get to read the same information about the same products and techniques multiple times.
You know those little plastic plugs that go into A/C outlets to keep toddlers from poking pins in them? Did you need a description of them? How about a half-page picture of 4 of them artfully scattered on a table? How about multiple half-page pictures of them? How about for the extension cords, the sanding bits, etc.
I was expecting to get a 400 page book with 400 pages of information. It's nowhere near that. You may still find it worthwhile, but I found the repetition lame and unprecedented and personally resented being hoodwinked.
 Repetition is the name of the game September 14, 2005
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
It's not a bad book by any means. But compared to Car PC Hacks by Damien Stolarz, it's repetitive and it lacks depth. It's less of a project book, but not much of an easy read either. There's some fun projects in there and some nice solutions, for sure. But try not getting tired of the endless "I wouldn't want you to get in an accident, while watching a DVD in your car". AAAARRGHHH.
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