Device |
Cost |
Reasoning |
P166 CPU |
$60 |
Slowest I could find. |
MD TX Pro w/Sound & VGA(Motherboard) |
$60 |
Need something for the CPU. |
Desktop Case |
$30 |
It was the same price for a Case and a Power supply as just a Power supply. |
CPU Fan |
$7 |
It can get warm in a car. |
2.1G Hard drive |
$110 |
Got to store the music someplace. |
Keypad |
$30 |
Some form of input. |
FM Transmitter (Radio Shack) |
$30 |
Transmit the sound to the FM stereo. |
Inverter |
$40 |
To convert the Cigarette lighter into an AC plug. I bought a 140W inverter at Target and it is doing well. |
Memory (16MB) |
$24 |
Guess |
Network card. |
$24 |
To facilitate copying the MP3's from my PC to it. |
Total: |
$425 |
Ta Da! |
Now, the one I have is rather large because I didn't use size as a limit. I slapped it together. Borrowed a CD drive from my Sis's computer
and installed Win 95, IE 4,