USB HID Relay
I am starting off with this hardware:
KNACRO 4-Channel 12V USB Control Switch Relay Module
This was fairly easy but not where I wanted to be. I found a library that did a ton of things for me.
Thank you to @darrylb123 for https://github.com/darrylb123/usbrelay
There was a python contribution but it broke the build. I spent a few hours trying to get it to build and gave up and just smashed the ugly.
How do you control your new custom Linux powered car computer? With a touch screen monitor obviously. And maybe a bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
I would like this to feel like I am using a Steampunk hacker version of a Tesla.
<a href="https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1093773_icon-helios-is-gorgeous-tesla-powered-electric-streamliner-concept" target="_blank">Tesla Streamliner Concept</a>
Well maybe not all that.
Maybe more like this:
Race Truck Dash
I started a similar project about 6 years ago on another vehicle. I wasn’t able to get a monitor installed on that vehicle in the center and felt like it would be obstructive. Instead I put in a navigation system that was about 11" and placed it in front of the passenger. Since then Tesla Motors came out and made their entire center console a touch screen. Now I realize I can be obnoxious in the center of my console for no good reason and people will dig it.
https://itsfoss.com/bluetooth-speakers-ubuntu/
https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:YouTube
https://www.howtogeek.com/286995/how-to-listen-to-pandora-in-kodi/
https://pythonbasics.org/python-play-sound/
Reading Sound Files
I would have liked to use these libraries but the mp3 hell is still going on.
https://python-sounddevice.readthedocs.io/en/0.3.13/index.html https://pysoundfile.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.0/
One of my bigger worries is working with peripherals. I needed to find a camera and I felt like that was going to be easy enough. The relay controller will hit the actuators running the door locks.
Most things inside a car take a decent amount of power to actuate or power them. The car is limited to 12V DC and your other measurements are amps and watts. Most wiring coming from a computer are rated for very very low current. This is because those are only carrying signal. With the exception of your charging and some power over wire like USB and Ethernet.
http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com/2017/12/linux-on-minix-neo-z83-4-and-z83-4-pro.html
http://www.minisforum.com/forums/z8350-linux.11/
18.10 didn’t work out of the box. It didn’t pick up the wifi drivers.
The above link suggested 18.04 daily. I’m going to give that a try.
https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-create-a-usb-stick-on-macos#6
Finding a good camera shouldn’t be too difficult given how many cameras exist now. They are literally everywhere.
I learned right away that the cameras were pretty much all standardized. They came in a few flavors but overall they were either too small, too wide, or too expensive. That helped me limit stuff down a lot.
I found this one right off by searching for “USB Camera”. It has a lot of good points that seem to match what I am looking for. I didn’t need the hardware shell but I can take that off I assume.
My trip to Fry’s in LA this morning wasn’t as great as I hoped. But I did get some great ideas on how to accomplish things.
There were two major themes in the hardware that I looked at.
There wasn’t much for integration or components that were universal. Either they were for their own little world or they were for some subset of the Apple ecosystem.
The purpose of the build out is to take a 100% analog vehicle and bring in modern creature comforts and a modern driveline. In addition to this I will be integrating a few technology tools that are developed at my current work.
In the morning I would like to walk out to my car, walk up to the door and have it unlock for me. If it greeted me in Jarvis’ voice from Ironman I would like that too.
I spent 5 days at a Benedictine Abbey, and fell in love with the culture and people you maintain it.
Basically I found the Abbey through a friend. My friend had been searching all over for a community and had visited many monasteries. This one just resonated with her. It also happened to be that one of the
This is a very difficult premise to start with. Can a technology solve the problem of war?
The plague of large scale violence is the manifestation of most of the world’s worst vices as a single catastrophic man-made event. Many intelligent people have opined on the causes of war over the years with few coming up with ideas and zero defining concrete solutions to those problems. The best we have come up with is “humane” ways to conduct war. We dip in and out of periods of peace, but as a collective species, we are unable to build a system that can sustain peace indefinitely and have instead just assumed that man’s natural state is that of war.