C-MAX Hybrid Guide Posted August 27, 2013 Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 Cars that draw pictures based on your drive, an LED display to automatically communicate with cars behind you, a musical composition based on how you drive. Pipe dreams? Hardly! These are just some of the innovations that were dreamed up and developed during the Boing Boing Ingenuity hack day held August 17, 2013, at the TechShop in San Francisco. Boing Boing is an online magazine devoted to technology and the culture that surrounds technology. What a perfect match for the Ford OpenXC platform, and the 2013 Ford C-MAX Hybrid! Boing Boing invited some of the top hackers in its community and Ford brought a C-MAX as well as its expertise. The goal was for the participants in this hack day – dubbed Data Driven – to create some new, innovative features or functions using the data available through the Ford OpenXC platform. And innovate they did! We already mentioned some of the really cool projects that were built throughout the day, and there were many more! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZril8ne_T8 There was the real-cost driving meter. Want to know the true cost of a trip? The goal of this project was to factor in wear-and-tear as well as depreciation of the vehicle. How about a driving replicator? This hack pulls the data from your drive – your turns, your acceleration, your braking – and then replicates it through a toy RC car.And how is this for the ultimate password: Driving a certain pattern unlocks a locked box inside the vehicle! Want more? The Boing Boing team has posted quite a few stories at www.boingboing.net and will continue to add more in the coming weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdbob Posted August 27, 2013 Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 As a software engineer I was interested in what they had implemented. Unfortunately the OpenXC interface as it stands now is severely crippled. I can understand why they wouldn't let commands to be sent to the car. But the things you can monitor are extremely limited. For instance, what if you wanted to look at the high voltage battery voltage or current - can't do it. What they need is a way to add items to monitor like you can do with a ScanGauge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-MaxSea Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 and http://boingboing.net/2013/08/13/boing-boing-ingenuity-a-look.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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