Crunchtrack is an open source all-in-one CAN, GSM, and GPS board
Mastro Gippo’s entry to the 2015 Hackaday Prize is an open source design of a GSM modem, GPS receiver, and CAN transceiver board.
Crunchtrack is an open source all-in-one CAN, GSM, and GPS board
I’ve always loved complex machines that can handle and transform huge amounts of energy to make very useful work. Among these machines, my life choices got me into the automotive field, where I’ve been working for the past 10 years. Just after school I found a job at Texa, an automotive diagnostic company, where I was writing software and reverse engineering communication protocols. My passion for efficiency and electronics made me leave that job after 5 years to pursue a career more focused on pure electric vehicles, so I joined another company where I developed power trains for EV conversions, and I even worked on a DeLorean conversion.
While working with electric cars, I stumbled upon two very interesting open source projects:the Open Vehicle Monitoring System, an IoT device to control every aspect of your car from a smartphone app, and the GEVCU, an universal ECU especially designed to handle the common problems faced when converting an ICE car to electric.
Inspired by these two devices, I want to build something that could take the best of the two approaches to very similar problems.