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 ports. One of the ports will be used as a data logger to monitor the parameters of the engine which I can analyze later.

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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 E90 dashboard. Below are some pics with the 3D printed board, at the moment this is still a rough draft, the finished product will have no hard or uneven edges. Stay tuned for more updates in the coming weeks :)

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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 you think. Thanks :)

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