Posted by angrycamel at December 16th, 2007

Well its been a long time coming but when I finally received the ‘C’ connectors this week, I made a harness from them to gain access to the ACC for starters. I had installed the PC in the trunk already but was waiting on these parts so that I could hook up the ACC line to have the PC start when I turn the key.

Once it was all hooked up, I connected the IEBus development board, started the Mouse Control test application on the carpc, started up Media Engine (a carpc front end application) and got my wife to test it out with me while I rolled the video camera.

Needless to say, everything is working well together. The firmware is translating the IEBus signals to text and transmitting over serial to the PC, the DLL (built from event discoveries in IEBus Studio) catches those signals and makes them available as software events. The Mouse Control test application has defined event handlers that will move the mouse and click on the location that came over the IEBus when I touch the screen.

Here are a couple pics of the setup:

I have put together a quick video of it that you can see here:

Posted by angrycamel at October 3rd, 2007

As you can see, I updated the look of the site tonight. I thought it was time for a change, so I modified a theme I found called Lush.

I also enabled spam filtering on the comments so that I could open it up for anyone to leave a message without too much of a hassle. I hope this helps encourage folks to give more feedback!

Posted by angrycamel at August 25th, 2007

I have made a bit of progress on the sniffer console/library builder thingy that I am calling the IEBus StudioBridge. I am wondering if anyone else here knows C# and would like to give a hand at coding this thing?

Its not a question of CAN I keep working on it, but there are some subtle things about C# that I do not have as much experience with and I would like to spend more time on the firmware. Having both developed at the same time would speed up development significantly.

Below is a shot of what I have working now. The reason you see the same message over and over again is because I currently have the Mega8 programmed to send it in a loop for testing. There is a parsed tab for showing the translated version of the message by referencing the selected library (but there are no libs yet, so it isn’t complete). Then there is also a tab for viewing the raw serial data as it comes in.

The message format coming out of the chip is like this:
Code:

~1:2A:A8:01:6:2E:4F:FF:12:0C:8B^\r\n

If you really know that you can handle a program like this please let me know. If you don’t think you will have the time or the know how, please do not offer, because it will most likely end up delaying things. I need someone who can take this and run with it and get a finished product quickly for it to be worth while.

Thanks in advance!

Posted by angrycamel at September 20th, 2006

It has been fun and a great learning experience taking this domain through all of its iterations over the years, however today marks a new day in anrgycamel.com’s constantly changing interface.

After many years of rolling my own website, coded in PHP I have finally decided that its time to get out of that habit and use an existing package such as WordPress blogging software. The main reason being that I was finding myself with less time to develop the content of the site due to the constant work which was being done to either fix things that have gone wrong or improvements. I wont be hassling with the in’s and out’s of the PHP anymore and will instead have more time to get all of the content up that I have planned on for so long.

I am looking forward to consistency, ease of use, longevity, and easy backups from WordPress. I will most likely start to mess with adding plugins but first I am going to get a project category up to date. So many projects have come and gone without even a word about them on my own website; like Mimesis for instance.