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

[Mike Viscount via TriLUG]

+1 ... Road Trip!!!!! LOL

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

>       You know, you could demo it in a...<dramatic music>... trilug talk.
> ;)
>
> 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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