Hello everyone,
Thanks for your feedback and encouragements today. I'm really flattered and humbled by how positive and engaged everyone was in this silly project of mine. I just didn't have any resources or links and there are things that might have been lost in communication due to the impromptu show-and-tell nature and perhaps my not-so-good English. So I thought for anyone who wants to try out, I'd leave some more tips: - The software is called Crankshaft, and the web page is http://getcrankshaft.com/, its github is github.com/htruong/crankshaft. It's a Free software, GNU/Linux, GPLv3 licensed and is basically Raspbian Lite with a bit of fluff on it. It does various tweaks on top of another piece of reverse-engineering software called OpenAuto and aasdk by Michal Swaz (github.com/f1xpl). One of the first goal is to make a baseline distro that works out of the box (and safe, and doesn't kill your car battery). The second goal is to encourage the end-users to further work on and develop on and make cool custom car setups. So I did everything I could to encourage every user to crack open that package to tweak it however you like. - The detailed BOM if you want to build it is on the main page -> click on the green Get Started button. Basically, you need a Pi of any gen (but preferably at least 2 USB ports), the official screen, a case or you can 3D print your own case, and a USB microphone. Everything should be around $100-$150. You can add GPIOs to it to do various things (details on the wiki). - You can borrow a raspberry pi kit with a touchscreen from the NCSU library to test, although I don't think it works as well as the official screen. If you have a monitor screen and a Pi of any sort that is laying around that you want to try out to make sure it works with your phone before committing to it, you can try to follow this wiki entry: https://github.com/htruong/crankshaft/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions If you have a car project in mind, this is probably one easy project you can finish in a weekend in a couple of hours or so. I really hope that some of us with older cars will find it useful as a "made-in-Raleigh" distro. The goal of my life is to rival Redhat as the #1 Linux distro provider in Raleigh... no, I'm just kidding. - Huan. -- Huan Truong grad student www tnhh.net / twitter @huant _______________________________________________ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: [email protected] List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
