Eee PC installed in my Zed

The latest Geek My Ride video shows the Eee PC I have installed in my Zed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZLJ_ZY718Y

 

It's a $50 tool to help you crash - look at the screen for a second and turn back to find a tree through your bonnet

 

Geeky but cool. What is the 'open source' software that you mention in the video? I couldn't find anything specific to the 300 on geekmyride.org.

Cheers,
Evan.

 

Quote Ecstazy Engine Management software running on converted eeePc installed in Flame's 300ZX Unquote

http://www.geekmyride.org/wiki/index.php/Flame%27s_300ZX

It's Linux crap, so no good to most of us. Definitely no good to me.

And he's just stuffed his gearbox, so I guess we won't see too much more of him.

 

can you provide any more info into getting linux eepc working with consult or other ecu programs?

 

Me?

Nope, Sorry, I'm a Windows programmer. I'm going to put a 7" EeePC and touchscreen into my zed with Windows XP.

 

Nah, I don't need to look at the rear screen when I'm driving as I also have
a 15inch touch screen mounted on the dashboard.

 

You can download the software from ftp://ftp.linearg.com/pub/ecstazy/ecstazy-0.81.tar.gz

The guy who wrote the software is a forum member.

 

haha, that video made me laugh - it was supprisingly funny at 4am :thumbup:

 

I Don't know how much work would be required to get Ecstazy to
compile on windows, but the source code is available and is open
source, so I'm sure any decent windows programmer could make
good use of it.

You don't have to use Linux and open source "crap" in your car if
you don't want to, but the free exchange of knowledge provided
by open source developers IS good for everyone, including you.

There is also some useful Nissan ecu documentation available
at http://www.plmsdevelopments.com/diy_consult.htm

 

I used UNetbootin to get EeeBuntu installed on the EeePC.
It's an Ubuntu based Linux distro that is better to work with than the
standard install that comes on the EeePC.

I downloaded the Ecstazy source and compiled it.

I'm pretty sure I only needed to install the build-essential
and libncurses5-dev packages to get ecstazy to compile.

The following commands should get ecstazy installed on
Ubuntu or EeeBuntu Linux.

sudo -i
apt-get install build-essential libncurses5-dev wget
wget ftp.linearg.com/pub/ecstazy/ecstazy-0.81.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ecstazy-0.81.tar.gz
cd ecstazy
make

Then run

./ecstazy

or

./ecstazy | more

for a full list of ecstazy command options.

 

15" touchscreen on the dash, hideous, :vomit:
please post a pic?

 

lol :banned:

 

:nono: imo, what were you thinking?? :vomit:

 

I genuinely love CarPCs, but why on earth did you mount the screen back there and put a 15" at the front?

 

is that a laptop hooked up at the back??

 

Yeah, the donor hardware was a 15 inch Acer notebook.

The 7 inch screen is not big enough to display everything I want in the
interface and still have the buttons a decent size. Big chunky buttons are
a lot easier to hit when you are driving. The larger screen also allows for
decent size display of maps etc.

This is just the first prototype, and I used the equipment that I could get
hold of cheaply. I would probably use a 12 or 13 inch laptop for the next
version, that way I could fit the motherboard in the dash rather than have
it sit up on the dash.

 

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MOTHER OF ALL EEEPPPPPPPPIIIIICCCCCCCCCCSSSSSSS

:vomit::vomit::vomit::vomit::vomit::vomit:

 

Ok, fair enough. I won't argue your opinion here because it is your own, but I would think that an 8" or 9" would easily be large enough to accommodate most thing.

Bare in mind of course that your not supposed to be touching the screen while driving

Unless anyone can enlighten me here, the laws are (in QLD anyway) that you can't have a "video" that is visible to the driver while in motion (and requires a 'switch' to turn off the display while moving), however GPS systems are fine. Therefore, carpc screens are a grey area? Like, it would be reasonably easy to script something so that the carpc won't allow a video to play while its motion, but is it even worth doing that if it's not required?