Raspberry Pi in a car = 1080p dashcam

[robcollingridge]

Been learning and playing with the Raspberry Pi over the last few months. Just about finished this little project to build a 1080p dashcam with parking mode, audio alerts, auto-start and auto-shutdown. I should be finished in a week or so and have installed in my Fury R1.

http://www.dreamgreenhouse.com/projects/2013/picar...

Have now got GPS logging working to and I'm currently adding Wi-Fi, so that it emails me the event files when it gets in range of my house. Still looking at whether a device like this could form the basis of a digital dash in my next car too.

Rob

[12v3pot]

Will definitely be following this with interest.

[Turn7]

I love these homebrew projects, looking foorward to more details.

[jeffw]

Looks like a great project Rob.

[robcollingridge]

Now published the code. Just doing the last few bits of the interface board and then it gets installed in the car :-)

[geeks]

Bookmarked the page will keep an eye on this one!

[cianha]

This is brilliant! Combinging two od my favourite things, Cars and Raspis!

[Andy Bell]

excellent work really impressed.

[downsman]

Great project

[Alex@POD]

That's a good project and I will keep an eye on it as I am hoping to install a similar setup in my car. Having read the page you linked, I have a question though: how bad are you at parking that you need a reversing cam in a Fury?

[PaulKemp]

"Why have you got a reversing cam in a Fury?"

I would think

"Because I can"

[robcollingridge]

Working well so far. Have added Wi-Fi to it, so it uploads events when I pull up on the drive. They currently get sent via FTP to my home automation server and then automatically synchronised to DropBox.

Last step is to finalise the case and packaging and get this first version completed. It's actually going in my family car and then I've got a V2 in mind for the Fury R1 but, I'm trying not to get distracted by this yet.

[Fastdruid]

Nice work. I've actually just got through a camera for my Pi which I was planning on doing the same for.

I had a different plan for power though, my plan was to feed it via an add-in board with both permanent power and 'ign switched' power via a relay and a timer circuit. Basically as soon as you switch on the ign the relay comes on, when you turn it off the timer kicks in and you also start the shutdown process, once the timer is up the relay cuts all power off.

Like this (not my work btw)