Took my FC for a walk by the lake (pics of course).
illegal ninja moves
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From: Gainesville, Florida
that is ****. how is the data for fuel and oil usage captured by the computer?
and about the air dam... have you considered just blacking-out the horizontal bar as well? It would give your car the shark-mouth look = )
AWESOME PICS!
and about the air dam... have you considered just blacking-out the horizontal bar as well? It would give your car the shark-mouth look = )
AWESOME PICS!
Just Messing About
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From: Just West of Atlanta
Originally Posted by uRizen
Ah, so they're supposed to go the other way? I guess it's too late now. The tires were brand new when I bought it, so I have alot of rubber to burn before getting things switched. I'll just leave them and wait for aftermarket rims and such when I get my TII some day. 
Cory
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From: San Ramon CA 94583
Originally Posted by SonicRaT
I've been working on a few car interfaces using XP Embedded, now that's a great little OS. Boots in under 10 seconds from the turn of the key. 
I am kind of interested in some better pics of the screen.
I am kind of interested in some better pics of the screen.Alright, I'm going to research that piece of puppy poo OS -- can I flash it to firmware? Can it be trusted to run realtime control loops like fuel/ignition?
I did the car-computer thing, nearly a couple years ago, using WiFi to data-port with the garage. I soon went serial-to-USB, and suffering CPU hog of driving serial over USB such as the camera.
For a couple months in the VW Passat, I had grown a rat nest of interfaces as I would change my plans and adapt an adapter to an adapter, ...made a mess as follows: OBD II interface and it's OBD-to-serial computer, jacked to a tiny serial-to-Ethernet computer, Ethernet to PC, then Ethernet-to-serial translation in software, later abbreviated to being jacked into a serial-to-USB. Only half of this derived power from the separate 300W PC power supply, with other half drinking from either the 5V or 12V USB lines.
I remember posting engine performance data to a VW forum that I had viewed from home PC through NetMeeting through VPN to a distant LAN, to a remote web host serving that engine data that it was fetching from my home across WiFi from the car's PC. Through this same path I pulled a snapshot of the ECU, further adding the car's subsystems as part of that network, just to say it had been done.
For simple controls of music, climate, odometer, I want physical buttons, so phuk iDrive. But for ultra geekness, I could not decide between a touchscreen with a remote PC and not have a mouse or keyboard, or my preferred good notebook/laptop PC with touchpad. I didn't want discretely separate keyboard and mouse and either the wiring or the battery power of wireless.
If I have a PC in the car, it must have a full QWERTY, and with Windows blowing donkey ******* for respecting the tab key for menu and button nav' I need a pointing device, so the notebook won.
Though I could imagine thrills of geeking in the parking lot sending email, it was as impractical as holding a mobile phone to my head when I can use an earset or hands-free. Its WiFi spared me from wiring and allowed it to sit anywhere in the car and be used within 50 meters, but I don't spend idle time in the car (weather is usually fantastic).
If I know I have ten minutes to stir, I go explore. I never mounted the notebook to a boom-tray because I rarely need it for more than logging 30 minutes of engine performance. A $2000 boom-mounted 4kg brick does not mate well with continued sport driving or parking security. So, I retired this mess.
ex-rx owner
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From: mad-city WI
the reason why the front passenger rim doesn't match was when I owned it, I hit a curb sliding on ice and had to order a new rim. So I ordered the front passenger side rim, but I hadn't considered the fact that the last time the wheels were rotated, the rear driver's side was moved to front passenger, throwing off the whole system. So there's 3 matching rims and 1 unmatching now, a good incentive for aftermarket rims 
btw looks freakin sweet.
btw looks freakin sweet.
Mountain Rotary Mod
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From: Freaking Poland!!
I would go with one of Via's C3 PCUs and motherboards. The 1ghz setup is about $150 on new egg and they have DC-DC adapters made for them because they draw so little power with a hard drive. Everything is embeded into the motherboard for easy use.
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It's windows, take it and leave it at that. I'd never trust a PC to run an engine, I'd leave that to a peice of hardware built specificly for such. Why in the world would you bother converting serial to ethernet, save perhaps the laptop/whatever lacked a serial port, but that's one crazy solution to such an easy problem. I've seen a couple of people using folding keyboards for various pda's stuffed in the glovebox, and a touchpad in the center console area. I personally just prefer sticking my laptop on the passanger floor, and letting it go.
Originally Posted by jhillyer
<err, I babbled forth>
Alright, I'm going to research that piece of puppy poo OS -- can I flash it to firmware? Can it be trusted to run realtime control loops like fuel/ignition?
I did the car-computer thing, nearly a couple years ago, using WiFi to data-port with the garage. I soon went serial-to-USB, and suffering CPU hog of driving serial over USB such as the camera.
For a couple months in the VW Passat, I had grown a rat nest of interfaces as I would change my plans and adapt an adapter to an adapter, ...made a mess as follows: OBD II interface and it's OBD-to-serial computer, jacked to a tiny serial-to-Ethernet computer, Ethernet to PC, then Ethernet-to-serial translation in software, later abbreviated to being jacked into a serial-to-USB. Only half of this derived power from the separate 300W PC power supply, with other half drinking from either the 5V or 12V USB lines.
I remember posting engine performance data to a VW forum that I had viewed from home PC through NetMeeting through VPN to a distant LAN, to a remote web host serving that engine data that it was fetching from my home across WiFi from the car's PC. Through this same path I pulled a snapshot of the ECU, further adding the car's subsystems as part of that network, just to say it had been done.
For simple controls of music, climate, odometer, I want physical buttons, so phuk iDrive. But for ultra geekness, I could not decide between a touchscreen with a remote PC and not have a mouse or keyboard, or my preferred good notebook/laptop PC with touchpad. I didn't want discretely separate keyboard and mouse and either the wiring or the battery power of wireless.
If I have a PC in the car, it must have a full QWERTY, and with Windows blowing donkey ******* for respecting the tab key for menu and button nav' I need a pointing device, so the notebook won.
Though I could imagine thrills of geeking in the parking lot sending email, it was as impractical as holding a mobile phone to my head when I can use an earset or hands-free. Its WiFi spared me from wiring and allowed it to sit anywhere in the car and be used within 50 meters, but I don't spend idle time in the car (weather is usually fantastic).
If I know I have ten minutes to stir, I go explore. I never mounted the notebook to a boom-tray because I rarely need it for more than logging 30 minutes of engine performance. A $2000 boom-mounted 4kg brick does not mate well with continued sport driving or parking security. So, I retired this mess.
Alright, I'm going to research that piece of puppy poo OS -- can I flash it to firmware? Can it be trusted to run realtime control loops like fuel/ignition?
I did the car-computer thing, nearly a couple years ago, using WiFi to data-port with the garage. I soon went serial-to-USB, and suffering CPU hog of driving serial over USB such as the camera.
For a couple months in the VW Passat, I had grown a rat nest of interfaces as I would change my plans and adapt an adapter to an adapter, ...made a mess as follows: OBD II interface and it's OBD-to-serial computer, jacked to a tiny serial-to-Ethernet computer, Ethernet to PC, then Ethernet-to-serial translation in software, later abbreviated to being jacked into a serial-to-USB. Only half of this derived power from the separate 300W PC power supply, with other half drinking from either the 5V or 12V USB lines.
I remember posting engine performance data to a VW forum that I had viewed from home PC through NetMeeting through VPN to a distant LAN, to a remote web host serving that engine data that it was fetching from my home across WiFi from the car's PC. Through this same path I pulled a snapshot of the ECU, further adding the car's subsystems as part of that network, just to say it had been done.
For simple controls of music, climate, odometer, I want physical buttons, so phuk iDrive. But for ultra geekness, I could not decide between a touchscreen with a remote PC and not have a mouse or keyboard, or my preferred good notebook/laptop PC with touchpad. I didn't want discretely separate keyboard and mouse and either the wiring or the battery power of wireless.
If I have a PC in the car, it must have a full QWERTY, and with Windows blowing donkey ******* for respecting the tab key for menu and button nav' I need a pointing device, so the notebook won.
Though I could imagine thrills of geeking in the parking lot sending email, it was as impractical as holding a mobile phone to my head when I can use an earset or hands-free. Its WiFi spared me from wiring and allowed it to sit anywhere in the car and be used within 50 meters, but I don't spend idle time in the car (weather is usually fantastic).
If I know I have ten minutes to stir, I go explore. I never mounted the notebook to a boom-tray because I rarely need it for more than logging 30 minutes of engine performance. A $2000 boom-mounted 4kg brick does not mate well with continued sport driving or parking security. So, I retired this mess.
Can you give any specs on your carputer?
Did you use a specific MB or just an extra?
What PS and power inverter did you use?
I'm really interested in doing this now.
Right now I have a 1.2ghz P3 w/ 20gig HD that I can use for this.
I was checking and it seems the Lilliput screen is the best way to go.
Is your Touchscreen or the regular one?
thx,
Corey
Did you use a specific MB or just an extra?
What PS and power inverter did you use?
I'm really interested in doing this now.
Right now I have a 1.2ghz P3 w/ 20gig HD that I can use for this.
I was checking and it seems the Lilliput screen is the best way to go.
Is your Touchscreen or the regular one?
thx,
Corey
The front Drivers rim is the only wrong one. Easy to get a new one on E-bay. Cheap too. That car is nicer than mine... I hate to admit it!!
https://www.rx7club.com/vbgarage.php?do=view&id=46755
Except for the rim of course!!! LOL
https://www.rx7club.com/vbgarage.php?do=view&id=46755
Except for the rim of course!!! LOL
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