Nialls supercharged GTi6 - project tidy up

[Niall]

No updates for a while! So heres the start of my new project

take one Raspberry Pi


one 7" touchscreen display (without casing obviously)


and a whole lot of cables, fibreglass and geeking and you will eventually have one car computer!
Plan is to have the screen mounted down where the ashtray is with the computer and everything else behind. Primarily it will be used for Satnav and live OBD readouts but will also have all sorts of media on there.

i did build a car computer in my old 106 and it was a good gimic but i had to get rid of the head unit which was an issue for cds (i never bothered buying a cd drive) and was also a pain waiting for the computer to boot for music. Good thing about the Raspberry Pi is it draws a maximum of 600mA which is bugger all so there is no reason why i cant have it on a permanent live so its always on even when the cars off but set it through a timed relay with a time of a few days. That way if i go on holiday and dont use the car for a while, it wont drain the battery.
Second one is to use it on a switched live off the CL so as soon as i unlock the car, it starts booting.


very quick mock up


messing around with a few bits of software last night

will be needing alot of help from the forum geeks (scott and fail feet) with the programming so might take some time to do it!