Archive:Quantify My Ride

Quanitfy your car. There's a lot of data being collected automatically in modern cars already, and the plan is to gather that data, and make it useful (maybe).

Data Sources

OBD

OBD stands for On-Board diagnostics [1]. It should allow us to gather a lot of information via a standarized format, called OBD-2, or EOBD (the European equivalent). There are OBD-2 connectors in most modern cars, and adapters for bluetooth or USB readily available.

I have ordered a OBD-2 Bluetooth Adapter on ebay, so we'll wee how well this works.

GPS

With a GPS receiver, we can link the data we gather to a specific location.

Camera

Add a camera?

Hardware

• Raspberry Pi
• OBD-2 adapter (bluetooth? USB?)
• Wifi -> upload data, via tethering or when at home near to a known access point
• GPS adapter
• blink(1) or RZLblink as status LED
• WebCam as Dashcam ?
• Powersupply ???

Links

• How to interface with your car’s ECU through OBD2 and Python
• OBD2-Scantool (Python project for OBD on GitHub)
• Raspberry Pi Car PC Project Part 1Part 2
• Raspberry Pi Car Computer
• Power Supply
  • Raspberry PI Power Shield
  • Sleepy Pi
  • MausBerry Car Power Supply Website Kickstarter