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My son is excited to help with my upcoming EV conversion! This is huge for me. He doesn't turn wrenches, but he's a Linux, open source, software kind of guy. He thinks someday an EV conversion would be cool to do. Gotta jump on it now before he loses interest.

I told him I haven't researched squat yet beyond the basic motor, but I would ask about suggestions for the UI. I see plenty to buy, doubt any are open source. I can also buy nice raspberry pi with a screen to hack on. But I need to get the controller and set up an interface.

Is live to buy a screen and a component to connect, power or up and let him hack away.

Suggestions?

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Thanks for the suggestions! Duh, of course aftermarket is all going to be CAN bus!

He's starting small. He's likely to get either a usb to canbus adapter to code on his laptop or something more dedicated, I saw an arduino canbus dev kit. I suggested he find some can controlled devices like little robotic motors to figure out how to use multiple devices on a bus and get the software started. There's the option for OBD-II starter kit that also looks interesting to him also. He's supposed to build a proposal.

Great suggestion, I'll get a friend to take pictures of the tesla pages.

He'll put everything out on github for all to use. He underestimates how interesting this will be to a fellow hacker, IMHO.

I'm amazed that my spell check not once changed canbus to something you smoke.

Thanks
Mark

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i actually been working on this exact thing and plan to have it be open source when i got it ready. the main UI for mine is going to be android 4.4 (can be any version but i like 4) with a menu below the android OS view that controls a rely switch to turn things on and off. it needs x86 in order to run properly though so no raspberry pis. mine runs an intel nuc but any low power chipset with display out will work

Very nice, look forward to seeing it when it's done.

Is the idea that you have a box that always is there for controls and the gui is separate or optional? Curious if this would be portable to a single tablet.

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