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Hey, I've got a 701 too. I swapped the memory for 2gig and glued a cheap 16gig pen drive from Play.com directly to teh motherboard and soldered the USB lines directly to the back of the spare card slot inside to give me 20 gig total. I also got a 9 cell bettery off Ebay, so it'll easily go for 8 hours straight, usually more.
As this is my first post and to make it car related, what sort of set up are you using your megasquirt in? Replacing an existing ECU or did you convert a carbed engine from scratch? Just wondering what's involved either way, but would be interested in replacing a carb/points set up with a throttle body, single point injection and mappable ignition. I heard that ignition mapping especially is a black art especially if starting with a blank sheet. Goals would be cleaner running and easier starting.
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I'm using the MS to drive a 2.0 zetec in a mk3 cortina, so it's kind of replacing a factory ecu (for now, I may get creative with throttle bodies later) Except right now, the MS is refusing to power up and the multimeter is at work (and it's later than late, lol) so I'm going to bed. like the pendrive hack. think I might try that one mind you, 16gb SD cards don't exactly break the bank any more, lol.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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herald948 - yikes! I have a similar era panasonic toughbook that lives at the garage, running xmms over fluxbox, doing sterling duty as an mp3 player. DSL and DeLi are nice, have you tried puppy? I've tried Puppy, but abandoned it because it's the bloatiest of the mini distros and it made the Omnibook grunt. Seamonkey is not a good browser choice for ancient hardware, for a start. Conor's on here isn't he? What he needs is a 1337 hardware hack - a bit of masking tape over his webcam.
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"Jeremy Clarkson, a man we motor enthusiasts need on our side like Lewis Hamilton's F1 car needs a towing ball and a Sprite Musketeer" My motor
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you don't need windows, you just think you do, lol Amen to that, even I've managed to have success with Ubuntu, Suse, Puppy and DSL, and I'm very much an "end user" type of guy nowadays. Pity I never managed to get Taxcalc or Sage (both Windows-only) running on Ubuntu, which is the only reason I'll be buying a Windows eeePC. No reason not to dual boot though. SOC - awesome thread!
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My fleet: Suzuki GSX-R600Y SRAD with bald, melted tyres A borrowed Mondeo
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Nov 12, 2009 10:47:24 GMT
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They'll prize me away from Windows when Team Fortress 2 runs on anything else Great to see this stuff being applied to Megasquirt in a good step-by-stepish way.
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rysz
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Nov 12, 2009 10:52:56 GMT
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They'll prize me away from Windows when Team Fortress 2 runs on anything else Great to see this stuff being applied to Megasquirt in a good step-by-stepish way. www.cedega.com/gamesdb/games/view.html?game_id=5132With the Penguin, all things are possible... Rysz.
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Nov 12, 2009 11:16:35 GMT
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another trivial use while I get on with the plastering... Internet radio or mounted network volume from upstairs with all my music on beats changing tape, lol
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Nov 12, 2009 14:29:21 GMT
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Last Edit: Nov 12, 2009 14:29:44 GMT by herald948
"Jeremy Clarkson, a man we motor enthusiasts need on our side like Lewis Hamilton's F1 car needs a towing ball and a Sprite Musketeer" My motor
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Nov 12, 2009 19:13:35 GMT
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Equipment gathered for this evenings play by the fireside (well, someone has to keep feeding it logs) We have (clockwise from top left) USB/serial lead, Megasquirt, eeePC, Multimeter and 5 OBD interfaces for various protocols to RS232. More about them later on. Now, wasn't all success last night - first of, the megasquirt is bricked ("brick" in software/hardware hacking terms means it is unresponsive to all input, like a brick. EG "I was just trying to bootstrap it when it bricked on me" ) I'll have to start testing it before I can go any further with megatunix. Thankfully it's the one piece of kit I do have full schematics and test procedure for, and I built it in the first place (about 2or 3 years ago, while laid up with a broken arm after a spill from a bike) so it shouldn't be too bad. Also, the OBD logging software refuses to compile properly, and uses a type of install I've never come across before (cmake) so I might be doing something wrong, or, as it's a recent update, it might be faulty. I've emailed the author with a compiler output file, see what he makes of it. In the meantime, I might remove it and try again with an older version. PS mostly, you don't have to compile your own software these days, just about everything you need is held as a package file maintained by the developers. You just have to browse the software library (package manager), click on stuff, download it and go. If you know the name of the program you want, you can get it via the command line (typing stuff) like this sudo apt-get install mc This will fetch a file manager called "midnight commander" which should be in every distribution, but often isnt. Sudo tells the computer that you are running the command as root (admin) I'll be downloading some gps navigation stuff later on, I'll go into it more then. Speaking of GPS, I tried to interface my (utterly useless) acer N35 PDA/GPS thing. It has a usb lead, PC spots it and opens a comm port for it, I can sync my diaries and address books (all empty )* but I cant get GPSD (the system daemon that manages GPS) to find it. A little checking later it turns out that, although it has an NMEI compliant GPS reciever inside it, the reciever can only talk to the PDA directly on an internal port, it isn't connected to the USB. So thats back in the drawer then. Hopefully I won't need it again, I only used it twice but it drove me batty. I quite fancy "rally navigator" style directions from the nav, that would be funny. Wonder if I can rip the sound files from Colin Mcrae rally? Anyway, the replacement GPS (ebay) hasn't arrived yet, and I need to get on with fixing the megasquirt, so laterz.... *how do you enclose an emoticon in parentheses without it looking odd?
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Nov 12, 2009 19:27:01 GMT
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Big Linux head myself (usually Slackware), that megatunix curse word is cool, I didn't know about it (hoping to go MS on a Ford 302 in the not too distant future).
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Colonelk
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101 uses for an eeePCColonelk
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Nov 12, 2009 19:31:18 GMT
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haha not as hard as it looks! I regularly try and get my linux groove on and fail miserably. I'm either lazy, not as clever as you, or both! I vote for both heh. its ok though, I'm happy knowing my limits Glad to see some progress happening
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Last Edit: Nov 12, 2009 19:34:02 GMT by Colonelk
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Nov 12, 2009 20:16:53 GMT
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I just took the lid off the megasquirt and found this... the processor is out of its socket and rattling around inside I have no clue how that happened, It worked when I built it (tested, code loaded and signed off 8/4/07) and it's just sat in a box since then. Wierd. I've put it back, going to try powering it in a mo. Wish me luck....
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Nov 12, 2009 20:25:42 GMT
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I know you can get component creep... but that looks more like component leap! cripes!
good stuff BTW... as a softy by trade (windows though) I'm watching intently!
got me one of these eee laptops a couple of months ago... but mine came loaded with XP... nice little computers, planned on getting me a OBDII to USB cable and having a play... I used to do car diagnostics a few years ago for omitec.
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Last Edit: Nov 12, 2009 20:28:53 GMT by swollen
Full of automotive and culinary delights visit: 1994 Subaru Legacy Estate Turbo 1985 Vauxhall Nova SR 1995 Fiat Cinquecento Sporting
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Nov 12, 2009 20:54:05 GMT
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I'd solder that down. Either that or mechanically retain it some other way. Wouldn't want it jumping out like that in service. Blob of hot glue either end? Wouldn't be too much hassle to remove if you ever needed to - just point a hot air gun or a hair dryer at it to soften it up again.
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Nov 12, 2009 20:58:25 GMT
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you'll like this then : don't you wish OBD tools came with this much flexibility? How many options? hahaha..... Fuel and spark tables (there is also AFR, and rather temptingly boost) No sensors wired up (no engine, lol) but it's reporting what it can with accuracy. Next job I suppose is to finish the car it's supposed to be going in (or try out the loom on the other zetec tina first..) Chuffed ;D
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Nov 12, 2009 21:09:44 GMT
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Calamity - yeah, I might do that. I can't see how a 40 pin DIL managed to get out of its socket at all (didn't even bend a pin...) unless maybe I only half fitted it while testing and forgot to push it home when I finished up... yeah, that's probably it. That or Black Hat man is messing with me somehow.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Colonelk
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101 uses for an eeePCColonelk
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Nov 12, 2009 21:10:59 GMT
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glad to hear it survived unscathed and was an easy fix!
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Nov 12, 2009 22:21:21 GMT
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Post up the cmake output and give us a linky for the OBD logging software, I'm no programmer but I'd like to help, most of the games i want to play use cmake.
Ever heard of RigsOfRods?
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Nov 12, 2009 22:33:18 GMT
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It's ok, I had an email back from the developer about half an hour ago - now thats service! It looks like I have installed the wrong version of fltk for the libfltk already on my system. I should have checked apt first for the files I needed before rushing off gung ho to svn and downloading the latest Sooo (sudo mc) Files purged, system updated, I'm just off for a reboot (to start gpsd, among other stuff) before I compile the obdgpslogger package.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Nov 12, 2009 23:18:19 GMT
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no, still not working somewhere something relating to the gui is wrong. Good news is I can get it to compile without the gui and run the prog from the command line instead. But I want to see dials so I'll keep at it. Tomorrow. hahaha ow, curse word! where did that shark come from?
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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