Thread: Project NiteVision - NiteMax + HUD + carputer

awesome, i can't wait to read, although i'll need some help with the equations part. Still have the same issues as before :P

Oh yev, i got them. I'll pm you, i don't want to take any that you were looking to play with, but i have my eye on two. They look cool, and i'm probablyy going to have to build somethoing to see what i wamt to see, but that shouldn't take too long. Thanks agaiin

have fun with those

today i have got a change to talk to one of my customers who is a DA-Lite screen representative. i have requested a holographic screen sample from him, but there is a massive shortage for those, also there is no flexible version of holo screens, and just like a regular screens it's only effective @ night, besides you will end up with ugly windshield.

i think out bet is for polarized tint or 3m privacy.

one more thing he gave me a sample fabric catalog

DA-Lite produces acoustically transparent front projection screen, basically white screen with black backing, and dotted, you i can see though a million of dots, practical "NO"

Yev

Haha, practical no indeed! I like seeing as much of the road as possible

@shotgun, congrats on your lotto winnings (i totally missed that). Those screenshots look hot, did you design that or is that a program, and if so which one? Hehe, yes i know, probably won't run in Windows, you linux-lover.

@jiimmy, Does the book talk about focusing ahead of the screen, almost projected to a point. If it does, it woudl be great to get the hud adjustible to something like 20-50 ft infront of you. I'm wondering if there's a way to tie it into the speedo or GPS to make focus speed adjustible (thinking ahead of myself now)

@ydiddy, personally, i'm trying to make somehting modular that will fit many cars so that from the design, that way we can use it to the benifit of everyone. Right now we have to solve a few inherant problems, while staying legal, and after that we can talk about incorperation. Like everyone else here, cash flow is well, the major hinderance

Originally Posted by Genesisfactor

Haha, practical no indeed! I like seeing as much of the road as possible

@shotgun, congrats on your lotto winnings (i totally missed that). Those screenshots look hot, did you design that or is that a program, and if so which one? Hehe, yes i know, probably won't run in Windows, you linux-lover.

@jiimmy, Does the book talk about focusing ahead of the screen, almost projected to a point. If it does, it woudl be great to get the hud adjustible to something like 20-50 ft infront of you. I'm wondering if there's a way to tie it into the speedo or GPS to make focus speed adjustible (thinking ahead of myself now)

Thanks, it's all home rolled. It's a framework written in Perl using the SDL library. HTML is used for the skins and all the animations and their behavior is derived from the naming conventions of the files and some hints in attributes.

I need to refine some of the ideas a bit, but when it's done, it's going to be damn flexible. I did all the graphics and animations in Fireworks 2 (yes it's old but not been much reason to upgrade for my uses)

As far as focusing, they call that "focus at infinity" or "focus at optical infinity" usually, I could not find that term in the amazon "Search Inside" though.

I've read in various research papers that 6ft out is probably close enough. Regardless, I don't think having to focus it depending on speed will be needed.

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Actually Perl is super crossplatform and SDL is too (though I've had windows issues with it), in theory this would be quite easy to move to windows except my reliance (for now) on XMMS .

you're right that speed focusing may not be nessessary. can you send me the links to the frensnel lenses and the polarized sheets you got? I'm going to wait until jimmy comes back with the PDF before i get any other optics. Plus i need to pick up a few more components.

Also, that's home made...that's insane. You'd laugh but i wanted to build a diagonsitics program for my G20 like that, with a rendered image of the car and a touch selectable image of parts under the hood thatg OBD woudl give me immediate stats on parts, like damage control and such (red being there's a major issue). That is really amazing though. Oh, i don't think you have a GM car, but if you did, Mechanics has actually mapped all of the binary of the GM ECU, which would make your job ALOT easier.

If you finish and ever make it windows ready, and i get the CPC installed, i wouldn't mind betaing for a while

Originally Posted by Genesisfactor

you're right that speed focusing may not be nessessary. can you send me the links to the frensnel lenses and the polarized sheets you got? I'm going to wait until jimmy comes back with the PDF before i get any other optics. Plus i need to pick up a few more components.

Also, that's home made...that's insane. You'd laugh but i wanted to build a diagonsitics program for my G20 like that, with a rendered image of the car and a touch selectable image of parts under the hood thatg OBD woudl give me immediate stats on parts, like damage control and such (red being there's a major issue). That is really amazing though. Oh, i don't think you have a GM car, but if you did, Mechanics has actually mapped all of the binary of the GM ECU, which would make your job ALOT easier.

If you finish and ever make it windows ready, and i get the CPC installed, i wouldn't mind betaing for a while

Your not insane, that's my goal too. Why the car is in the center there.

I have a 3d model of my car too and SDL has OpenGL bindings... but that's off in the distance.



400k divx here

With the cable I'm getting, I can just download my rom from the car, the big things is that the parameter addresses vary from ecu to ecu, so they need to be mapped, that's what I'm waiting on. But with enough time and disassembly, you could reprogram it to do whatever.

The 2g mitsu guys have been doing this for ages, they can program the car so it wont' start without a secret foot pedal sequence and such.

I only got one little pocket fresnel (at a drug store) and haven't gotten any polarized film yet, so not sure on the links, I believe I did post some somewhere in this thread though.

well the problem is we still need to figure the optimal solution, and focusing for this before we could start desigining appearance etc etc

Yev