802.11b Controlling my Car..........

[edro]

Anyone have any little tips or ideas on a way to control my car's various electrical components?

I would like to write a Visual Basic/C++ program to be able to communicate with a laptop inside my car. From the laptop inside the car, I would like to have it control the ignition (I have a remote starter), headlights, windows, trunk release (electrical), and set and disarm the alarm. This is mainly for a project, so don't think I really Need to do this.

I don't know if I could make it control the electrical components via a relay switchbox controlled by USB or by Serial........

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[SaltBoy]

Talk to Q... he'd know.

 

[aphex]

just make sure to use encryption.

 

[Ryan]

It looks like that is a project that won't be happening (unless you wanna send me 1 million dollars to invest some of my time and energy into the project)

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: aphexII
just make sure to use encryption.

shutup!

 

[777php]

Check out this site

Futuretruck Competition

These students have done some amazing stuff with the cars including a lot of telematics. If you are really interested in doing something you might want to contact some of the teams who would definitely be able to help you out.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: aphexII
just make sure to use encryption.

shutup!

sheesh.

 

[notfred]

Please, let me design a hardware interfae to your car for you. And while I'm at it, I'll write windows drivers for it. And I'll do this for free, because I'm so nice.

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: notfred
Please, let me design a hardware interfae to your car for you. And while I'm at it, I'll write windows drivers for it. And I'll do this for free, because I'm so nice.

It's ok......keep spamming. Your postcount is almost 10,000........spam a few more times and you will be there.

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: edro13

Originally posted by: notfred
Please, let me design a hardware interfae to your car for you. And while I'm at it, I'll write windows drivers for it. And I'll do this for free, because I'm so nice.

It's ok......keep spamming. Your postcount is almost 10,000........spam a few more times and you will be there.

He's not spamming. Do you know what spam is?

 

[edro]

Yeah, it is giving smart@ss responses that are better left out completely.

 

[blahblah99]

Originally posted by: rbloedow
It looks like that is a project that won't be happening (unless you wanna send me 1 million dollars to invest some of my time and energy into the project)

Its a doable project. You would first have to get a tcp/ip library so you can communicate with the laptop. Then you'd have to write the functions to do the communication from home PC to laptop, and from laptop to the outside world (which in this case, might be via serial port since its the easiest). From the serial to your car, you will also need a microcontroller like a PIC chip, or an atmel, or an intel, or a basic stamp. That'll read the serial data fed from the laptop and convert it into 0V to 5V signals which you can feed into a transistor to drive a relay.


There you go, I wrote out the block diagram for you.



EDIT: and since the microcontroller around 10+ I/O lines, you can use others to do whatever you want: roll up/down windows, lock/unlock doors, flash your lights. Basically, anything a car alarm can do, plus a whole lot more.

 

[IcemanJer]

Originally posted by: edro13
Yeah, it is giving smart@ss responses that are better left out completely.

No, that's just neffing.

while (1)
postcount++;

 

[edro]

Its a doable project. You would first have to get a tcp/ip library so you can communicate with the laptop. Then you'd have to write the functions to do the communication from home PC to laptop, and from laptop to the outside world (which in this case, might be via serial port since its the easiest). From the serial to your car, you will also need a microcontroller like a PIC chip, or an atmel, or an intel, or a basic stamp. That'll read the serial data fed from the laptop and convert it into 0V to 5V signals which you can feed into a transistor to drive a relay.


There you go, I wrote out the block diagram for you.

= NON-SPAM

Thank you. See......that is constructive.

 

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by: notfred
Please, let me design a hardware interfae to your car for you. And while I'm at it, I'll write windows drivers for it. And I'll do this for free, because I'm so nice.

I don't think he was asking someone to do the work for him. Just suggestions/ideas/sites to push him in the right direction.



Wish I could help you out edro13, but this is above my head.




KeyserSoze

 

[Jzero]

This would give war-driving a whole new meaning
"Some punk hijacked my car's WLAN and drove off with it!"

 

[CrazyDe1]

use an intel 8051 microcontroller..it's really easy to learn...noise might be a problem..
see
http://ece-www.colorado.edu/~mcclurel/iap711.pdf

 

[edro]

bump

 

[GeekDrew]

Although it doesn't have anything to do with this topic specifically, MP3Car.com has some good examples of how people have hooked up computers to their cars. Some people have integrated a computer, stereo, alarm, air conditioning, etc, all into one controllable system. If you got it that far, then controlling it from a remote computer wouldn't be hard to do.