Neo Carputer (was: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer)
Andrew Turner
ajturner at highearthorbit.com
Fri Jan 26 17:06:35 CET 2007
On 1/26/07, Tim Newsom <cephdon at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a side note... In the US and probably other countries there is a
> standard for the interface to the car computer. From that interface you
> can get the vehicle speed and diagnostic information about how the
> engine is running. It might be interesting to have some kind of
> bluetooth car interface to obtain that information and display it for
> you while you are in your car. Anyone ever heard of anything like
> that?
>
You're speaking of OBD or CAN.
There are some good interfaces out there, though the auto companies
try to protect their information. It would be neat to build a
plotter/scanner interface for measuring the car sensors on the Neo
using either bluetooth or serial/usb.
Bluetooth OBD scanner:
http://www.vitalengineering.co.uk/
Open-source OBD scanner & python software:
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~donour/cars/pyobd/
See my del.icio.us bookmarks (http://del.icio.us/nilspace/carputer)
for more links (and others on del.icio.us)
Andrew
More information about the community
mailing list