for the displays themselves I chose the RHP7.

These were chosen because I saw a picture of the inside of one of the units and saw that they had a lot of extra room and it looked fairly Hackable.

They also turned out to be a good balance of size and cost.

For the hard wired controller I chose a super Nintendo controller.

This doubles as a Control for XBMC and also for the emulators which I will be adding to the system.

For the infrared input I repurposed the infrared receiver on the monitor itself and redirected the output pin to the raspberry pi

I had originally thought of running the audio and video down to the center console and putting in a composite matrix switch so that they could share video sources if wanted

After I looked at that possible solution I realize it strayed from my goals of having a easy to use standalone unit that would operate on only 12 V if The rest of the infrastructure of the car was inoperable

The only other active component that I have in this build is a UBEC it's output is 5 V at 5 A. I have used these in the past and I know that they operate at a wide input voltage, such as what will be present in a car.