In car Elite
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 6:34 pm
Not strictly oolite, but I thought some of you may be interested
I've been spending the last few weekends putting a raspberry pi in to my car. I've gone for riscos as it's quick to boot & shut down,but mainly as I've wanted to have an acorn os in my dream car since i was in primary school! Luckily my dream car is fairly cheap and I already own it, so I've built the pi in to my 1992 landrover defender! (rather than a lambo or a ferrari )
Best of all (and thanks to davespice and his article in magpi) it runs an arch 440 emulator and plays elite!
it's a bit of a nightmare to play and more for show due to the unconfigured screen resolution & middle mouse issue however the screen should be fairly easy to sort out and I've built in the facility to have a normal mouse so I'm hopeful my lunchtimes (when I get them) will be fun!
The standard risc os system works really well and I finally I have a loud enough sound system to hear megadeth above the standard land rover noise! Next up is to create my own elite-style HUD to display a revolving, wire frame defender with the fuel, shield etc bars displaying information via GPIO pins... although I'm happy enough now that it works at all!
I've put a bit more up on my website if anyone is interested : here
I've been spending the last few weekends putting a raspberry pi in to my car. I've gone for riscos as it's quick to boot & shut down,but mainly as I've wanted to have an acorn os in my dream car since i was in primary school! Luckily my dream car is fairly cheap and I already own it, so I've built the pi in to my 1992 landrover defender! (rather than a lambo or a ferrari )
Best of all (and thanks to davespice and his article in magpi) it runs an arch 440 emulator and plays elite!
it's a bit of a nightmare to play and more for show due to the unconfigured screen resolution & middle mouse issue however the screen should be fairly easy to sort out and I've built in the facility to have a normal mouse so I'm hopeful my lunchtimes (when I get them) will be fun!
The standard risc os system works really well and I finally I have a loud enough sound system to hear megadeth above the standard land rover noise! Next up is to create my own elite-style HUD to display a revolving, wire frame defender with the fuel, shield etc bars displaying information via GPIO pins... although I'm happy enough now that it works at all!
I've put a bit more up on my website if anyone is interested : here