{"id":1090,"date":"2013-01-12T22:56:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T05:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2013-01-19T23:09:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T06:09:15","slug":"raspberry-pi-powered-carputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/blog\/2013\/01\/12\/raspberry-pi-powered-carputer\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi powered carputer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got myself a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/\">raspberry pi<\/a> couple of weeks ago. First I tried to make a HTPC out of it using <a href=\"http:\/\/xbmc.org\/\">XBMC<\/a> but the interface was too slow for my taste. So I decided to build a carputer. \ud83d\ude42 I have very basic electronic knowledge, so this will be a learning process for me too.<\/p>\n<p>So far what I need is this list below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a car (Check)<\/li>\n<li>a 12V to 5V converter: I have cheap lighter to USB adapter. I&#8217;ll start with that but I&#8217;m thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/store.mp3car.com\/Carnetix_CNX_P1900_DC_DC_Regulator_p\/pwr-010.htm\">this<\/a> in the future.<\/li>\n<li>a 5V power source activated when the car power is shut: For this one I&#8217;m going to start with a circuit I had in hand that I was using to charge my wifey&#8217;s phone using a small solar panel. It has a 2000mAh Li-Po battery on it. (That battery is most probably flat. I&#8217;ll need a new one)<br \/>\nI will need this power source for only maybe 1 min. Read next bullet point.<\/li>\n<li>a relay circuit that will detect that the car power is shut off and will send a GPIO signal to Rpi to shut itself off. Otherwise there will be corruption at some point of time. \ud83d\ude1b I believe I should write a simple script to shutdown to tie it to that GPIO signal.<\/li>\n<li>a 7&#8243; touchscreen screen (possibly with an HDMI input. I have couple of candidates.)<\/li>\n<li>a software to play music and video. Biggest candidate so far is XBMC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nice to have:These will require a USB hub since I only have 2 USB inputs. (I need to look at the power requirements for the USB hub)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a wifi\/bluetooth solution for phone interaction.<\/li>\n<li>a GPS interface.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More update weekly. (hopefully!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got myself a raspberry pi couple of weeks ago. First I tried to make a HTPC out of it using XBMC but the interface was too slow for my taste. So I decided to build a carputer. \ud83d\ude42 I have very basic electronic knowledge, so this will be a learning process for me too. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/blog\/2013\/01\/12\/raspberry-pi-powered-carputer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raspberry Pi powered carputer.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11,50,52,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emresaglam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}