[TriLUG] Made in Raleigh - Raspberry Pi Free Software for your Car

[Mike Viscount via TriLUG]

That's very cool - thanks for sharing!

Mike

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Huan Truong via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am new to the area. I attended the TriLUG meeting last time on AI/
> Self-driving cars and the topic of putting software in people's car
> got quite a bit of attention.
>
> In that spirit, I would like to present to you something I've been
> brewing in the last three weeks or so right here in Raleigh. The
> distro Crankshaft. It's a GNU/LInux distro for your car that
> transforms the Raspberry Pi to an Android Auto head unit. Unlike AI,
> this software doesn't drive the car for you, it just makes your life
> easier. This is to help you focus on the road and not fumble with the
> phone on the road. It projects your car-optimized apps from the phone
> to a bigger screen of the Pi, so now you have a big screen with big
> and clear buttons and voice control. Plus, it is Raspberry Pi, it's
> GNU/GPLv3, and it's Linux -- it's free software. And I hope it is
> functional, too.
>
> ZDnet has an introduction for it:
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/raspberry-pi-goes-android-
> auto-now-you-can-build-your-own-cheap-car-head-unit/
> (Note that since the article was written, I have squashed the
> stuttering problem that you see in the video, I just haven't gotten
> time to make a new demo video).
>
> The product is based on Open Auto and aasdk -- a respectable
> reverse-engineering effort of Michal Szwaj, a Polish software
> engineer. I made a complete distro out of it that has everything tuned
> up and ready, all you need to do is to supply it with a Raspberry Pi
> and a touchscreen for it to work (the official touchscreen works best,
> but if you don't have it and is a NCSU student, go borrow a Raspberry
> Pi kit in the library, and start Crankshaft in X11, it will work just
> as well too).
>
> It's Pi day tomorrow and I have just released a new version to
> celebrate it. I have seen quite a bit of adoption for the software and
> people have actually put this in their cars in the US and worldwide
> [1]. I hope to maintain the software so maybe 2018 will be the year of
> Linux on the dashboard ;-).
>
> You can learn more about the project at GetCrankshaft.com. It's free
> software, designed to be hacked and improved upon, and I plan to keep
> it that way. You can also reply to the list what you think or ideas if
> you have a chance to try it. I thought I would demo it in the Pi Jam
> last week @Redhat but I forgot, so that's a pity. But I'd be happy to
> show anyone interested in future occasions if you can't obtain a Pi
> right now to try it.
>
> Cheers,
> - Huan.
>
>
>
> 1: See https://photos.app.goo.gl/81hQ6wTuLFNGmRHh2
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