Thought I’d share a recent half-day project (not counting print hours)- picked up a cheap car stereo and set of speakers to replace the stock set in my little pickup truck. Some quick measurements and a bit of solidworks action, and everything fit on the first iteration - avoiding OEM fit kits and reusing all the normal sheet screw holes. I had some splitting issues on the stereo mount, but as I’m not yet sure what I want to do with the second half of the double DIN slot, I’ll likely use an updated print as an excuse to enclose the Rostock Max.
That’s awesome. Are you running inventor or solid works?
SW 2014 (work license)
I’ve heard tales of its availability in dark corners of the net - but don’t endorse the (non-ethical) process of getting it.
Nice. I used to run SW but switched over to Autodesk suites. Licensed.
Insert a raspberry pi with mini display, controls and USB ports. You could connect an ODB2 port reader to the raspberry pi to tell how good of health your pickup is in. Any cheap webcam could be used to connect to the raspberry pi for traffic cams. If you don’t want to use a raspberry pi, you could probably put a cheap android tablet there. Maybe even a lock box.
Great job. I keep meaning to have my printer work for me instead of always tinkering on it.
Nice clean design trees in SW by the way. Some of my SW parts for my printer I am embarrassed by how I designed them.
@NathanielStenzel : any promising urls or similar that you can share on interfacing obd 2 with raspberry pi would bee appreciable. Thanks in advance.
@VCSekhar_Parepalli I know there are good android apps for interfacing with the ODB2 port. A number of the ODB2 readers have a USB interface. I have not tried to interface with one yet. It is on my to do list.
here are some unverified research results from about 30 seconds of searching:
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~donour/cars/pyobd/ (python)
obdgpslogger
Jdash - Native Linux - kinda works for subarus
Carman - Linux Maemo - sounds like it works well, too bad not for us.
Magden - Linux based, but sold with hardware.
@NathanielStenzel : Thanks again.