Raspberry PI OEM integration for E90 Part 2

As promised in my previous post, this is the almost finished product. I think it would look perfect with a coat of Plastidip over the bezel. But pretty much this is ready to be installed on the car. From my previous post I have made a couple of changes, now I have added 2 USB...

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Raspberry PI OEM integration for E90

I am happy to say that whilst I haven't written much over here for the past month or so, things were kicking in the background with the Raspberry PI project. After my previous post, seeing that everything is working as expected, it is time to integrate everything nicely in the...

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PyOBD on BMW E90

It finally works as expected after a few tweaks here and there :) The next part of the project will be finding a nice place to fit this in the car. So far, I was thinking of the following places: ashtray compartment  on top of the rear view mirror  Let me know what...

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The Raspberry PI car computer

I've started to play around with a little device called a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is essentially a card sized computer with the following specifications: 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU 1GB RAM 4 USB ports 40 GPIO pins (the GPIO pin are to control various things like...

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Autumn preparations

Weather here has started to go bad, lots of rain so I've decided to upgrade my velour floor mats to the more rugged rubber mats I've received as a birthday present from my friends (thanks again for the wonderful present :) ) . To be honest, these actually look very nice. Also...

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Make it your own

First off lets start with a wishlist, I've put together a wishlist which hopefully I will be updating on an ongoing basis. The wishlist will list all the parts that I will/or have put into this project. Each mod or repair that I will making for my car in shaping it to be unique. Now, ignore the order since some parts on the wishlist will take ages...

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It's only a Car...

Most people would say just that...It's only a car. However for most us, this is our car. A car that drives our passion, that drives our dreams.  To me my dream came true when I first drove a BMW. The first car was a BMW 318i (e46), a car with a small and modest engine however it had something, something I couldn't find in other cars....

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