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Electrical vehicle conversion – modernizing my Autobianchi Giardiniera, Dante

Category: Car Mods

DanteDials Prototype

DanteDials Prototype

Here’s an early demo version of DanteDials for our EV conversion project. It’s a program that shows a custom configurable vehicle instrumentation cluster using a touchscreen. It’s being developed to display electric vehicle CAN bus data. Here we’re using a Raspberry Pi 4 and 4.3″ touchscreen running Raspberry Pi OS. We used Python 3 and Pygame 2, so it should […]

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Custom car audio speaker enclosures

Custom car audio speaker enclosures

I love music, so its important to have a car audio system for my Autobianchi Giardiniera, Dante. The audio system will also be an integral part of my infotainment system, which I’m currently figuring out. My priorities for my car audio system were good sound quality and minimal impact to the interior of my classic car. I set out to […]

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Italian to North American rear license plate adapter

Italian to North American rear license plate adapter

I live in British Columbia (BC), so I needed a license plate adapter for an Italian to standard North American plate for my 1973 Autobianchi Giardiniera. I was using zip ties, but that looked unacceptable. I scoured the Internet, but I couldn’t find an adapter. It was bugging me, so I created one using FreeCAD and our 3D printer. It […]

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