For as many sensors, cameras, and computers as there are on modern cars, they ought to be a dream to poke around in and customize to one’s liking. Unfortunately they’re generally plagued by the same ...
Article SummaryCarWatch is an open-source project that uses a Raspberry Pi 5 and a local LLM (Large Language Model) to ...
However, LLMs with chat interfaces aren’t the only AI models I can run on my weak hardware. Take the Cactus Compute Needle 3, for example. While it needs some tinkering with Python scripts, this slim ...
In my early ESP32 tinkering days, I’d only use the microcontroller to test with LEDs, resistors, and other circuitry components. In fact, writing simple C++ programs to perform basic tasks on the ...
A custom digital instrument cluster for BMW M57/N57 diesel engines (E60/E61/E9x chassis), built on a Raspberry Pi. It passively reads the car's powertrain CAN bus in real time and renders live engine ...
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Apple CarPlay is one of the defining features of cars today, as it's hard to imagine a modern car without the interface for your phone. It's ...
Ever considered adding an engine monitoring system to your boat? This article follows on from my introduction Smart Boat article, which showed how to use Home Assistant (HA) and a Raspberry Pi (Rpi) ...
Open Sauce 2025 just wrapped and if you weren’t lucky enough to make it out to the Bay Area for the convention, you missed out. Even if you were there, you may have missed something awesome — there ...
Formula assumes fixed voltage (5V). Although it's almost 5V, any deviation from it results in inaccurate reading. TPS does not give back input voltage so this formula/parameter is useless. It is way ...
With so much data being thrown at our eyeballs these days, it’s worryingly easy for the actually important stuff to slip by occasionally. So when [Liam Jackson] wanted a way to visualize the number of ...
Enhanced with digital technologies, a ‘smart boat’ is a vessel with remote and onboard control, monitoring, and management of systems, writes Rob Ferenczi. One of the great things about converting my ...