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Electrical vehicle conversion – modernizing my Autobianchi Giardiniera, Dante

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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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CarPlay on Raspberry Pi demo

CarPlay on Raspberry Pi demo

Getting CarPlay running on a car system like OpenAuto has been a target for my electrical vehicle conversion project. I couldn’t find an OpenAuto solution that uses a CarPlay dongle, so I had to look elsewhere. The good news is I’ve put together a solution using Lineage OS (see my previous post) that I’ll be using moving forward if all […]

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