Hack the things.....like a car
Some of you might know that I've been building a custom car ( for what feels like an eternity ) and I have kept it really basic with no modern technology at all. ( Hey, I've seen some of the code you guys (and myself) write, I'm not trusting that in my £100k car! ). Here's a photo of earlier in the year, minus lots of things, working brakes being one of them, hence the custom low-loader delivery truck: Check out the ongoing journey at the website CLICK HERE So whilst I keep Lil'Merc nice and dumb, I do have an MG F, a Subaru Sambar and a shiny new Mercedes c200 company car, that has LOTS of new technology. I went through a cycle of getting various OBDII bluetooth devices for the MG F, only to find that is was built 6 months before that technology was adopted and has a MEMS unit in it, which is not compatible. Sigh. I even did some diagnostic work with this guys Android app to try and get it to work, with no luck. So I did what I do best. I ...