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my Engine Control Module

Postby russian » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:07 pm

Let me introduce my own time waster - I am trying to develop my own automotive engine control module. I've wanted to learn something new for some time now, so ten months ago I've ordered a soldering iron and a discovery board.

As of today, my test vehicle can go around the block. The software side of things is easy for me, I am mostly struggling with the analog side of the physical world, but I am not giving up yet.

Anyway, here you are - http://sourceforge.net/p/rusefi/blog/

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Re: my Engine Control Module

Postby Tectu » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:15 pm

That's nice - thanks for sharing!
How about adding an touchscreen LCD module to get some information without a computer? :P


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Re: my Engine Control Module

Postby russian » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:18 pm

Tectu wrote:That's nice - thanks for sharing!
How about adding an touchscreen LCD module to get some information without a computer? :P
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The day I see something like 7" SPI driven screen under $50, I order it. Parallel ports are just too parallel for me :)

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Re: my Engine Control Module

Postby Tectu » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:21 pm

How comes? What's exactly your problem with a parallel interface? It's really no big issue to set it up and get it running (beside the wiring :twisted: ). When you get the free pins, you can hook it up to the FSMC interface of your F4 discovery board, then it's really just a few lines of code to set the FSMC peripheral up.

Also, there are pretty good reasons why there are no 7" LCDs with an SPI interface :D


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Re: my Engine Control Module

Postby Giovanni » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:51 pm

Pics needed :)

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Re: my Engine Control Module

Postby Tectu » Wed Aug 07, 2013 10:02 pm

Giovanni wrote:Pics needed :)

Let me link you the hard-to-find video in the meantime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcxLY697 ... e=youtu.be :mrgreen:


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Re: my Engine Control Module

Postby russian » Fri Aug 23, 2013 6:13 pm

BTW I have added a small how-to article http://rusefi.com/articles/tachometer/

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Re: my Engine Control Module

Postby russian » Sat Nov 16, 2013 6:52 am

Quick update: ChibiOS-based ECU is driving the car around the block

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygkAsER3y-o

If anyone would be interested to contribute time we have some open tickets - some do not require any car knowledge at all :)

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Re: my Engine Control Module

Postby Tectu » Sat Nov 16, 2013 11:51 am

I sent a tweet, probably someone becomes interested :)


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Re: my Engine Control Module

Postby Giovanni » Sat Nov 16, 2013 1:17 pm

Really good job :)

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