*NEW* USB Input/Output Board -- Fusion Brain

[ellislake]

Quote: Originally Posted by sporty_drew

HVAC- Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning.
FB- Fusion Brain

It uses relays for switching power.

lol thanks,

do u understand how fb can control a knob that i turn to increase or decrease my temperature in the car ?
cheers

[sporty_drew]

Have you checked out the Fusion Brain website? They have a lot of good information. How you will go about hooking it up to the car depends on your car.

[ellislake]

Quote: Originally Posted by sporty_drew

Have you checked out the Fusion Brain website? They have a lot of good information. How you will go about hooking it up to the car depends on your car.

canbus elctrical system.

car : seat leon mk2 ill look on their website, think ihave b4 but wasnt clear.

i do not alot about electronics but just cant get any simple answeres from fb guys

[2k1Toaster]

Quote: Originally Posted by ellislake

canbus elctrical system.

car : seat leon mk2 ill look on their website, think ihave b4 but wasnt clear.

i do not alot about electronics but just cant get any simple answeres from fb guys

Well I don't know what your electrical knowledge is. You are trying to tackle THE HARDEST possible automation that can be done in a car maybe apart from auto-pilot. And what makes it hard is that everyone is different.

I don't mean they are all different as in laptops. Sure they are all "different", but underneath they all have the same parts just in different locations and grades of quality.

HVAC systems are completely different. Take a tech that worked on X brand of car's HVAC his whole life and give him Y brand of car's HVAC, and most usually nothing will be familiar.

Everything that clicks or pushes switches electricity somewhere to turn something on or off. A relay connected to a digital output does the same thing. You have to figure out where to put it. It is impossible for me to say "cut the red wire and put the relay between it and the flux capacitor". Every car is different. You should be familiar with electronics or at least have the patience to try it out before you attempt this. Every knob or dial that doesnt turn things on or off, but changes something that is already on, would be controlled by relays or PWM through MOSFETs. Anything you want as feedback like temperature or anything you want to display such as status of things, would connect to an input.

[trader007]

i just dont really follow the benefits. any late model car has climate control, and works off a temp guage already. you will never make a pc setup thats as easy to use or as nearly reliable as an OEM system... im trying really hard to see the benefits of controlling your hvac with the carpc i just cant grasp the idea

[greenman100]

Quote: Originally Posted by trader007

i just dont really follow the benefits. any late model car has climate control, and works off a temp guage already. you will never make a pc setup thats as easy to use or as nearly reliable as an OEM system... im trying really hard to see the benefits of controlling your hvac with the carpc i just cant grasp the idea

Some people want to put a screen where the controls are.

[DANNYDOTNET]

Like on a mobo can you make a fusion brain with a 4pin usb connector?

[DANNYDOTNET]

Quote: Originally Posted by trader007

i just dont really follow the benefits. any late model car has climate control, and works off a temp guage already. you will never make a pc setup thats as easy to use or as nearly reliable as an OEM system... im trying really hard to see the benefits of controlling your hvac with the carpc i just cant grasp the idea

I've got one with dual zone automatic temperature but it doesn't do anything by voice. So instead of saying "turn up the heat" I have to go through the agony of pressing the temp button on the steering wheel.

[trader007]

Quote: Originally Posted by DANNYDOTNET

I've got one with dual zone automatic temperature but it doesn't do anything by voice. So instead of saying "turn up the heat" I have to go through the agony of pressing the temp button on the steering wheel.

good point. it was dumb to say, its cool to even attempt this.

[sgtpepperaut]

anyone know what voltage the digital input/outputs ports accept on a V4 board? not quite sure how to deal with them.


any help appreciated

thx phil

[2k1Toaster]

Quote: Originally Posted by sgtpepperaut

anyone know what voltage the digital input/outputs ports accept on a V4 board? not quite sure how to deal with them.


any help appreciated

thx phil

The Digital Output ports give out the same voltage as what is supplied. So if you power it with a 12v system, you get 12v out at roughly 400mA to 500mA.

The Analogue Inputs (Can be used for digital too) can accept a maximum of 5v and a minimum of 0v.

[sgtpepperaut]

i seee,

and the digital ins are "on" when voltage is greater than 0?

so lets say i want to create and indicator that displays if my headlights are on....i connect the POS 12 to a (one) digital input port?
also im trying to hook up my "radio detector" to my ride runner. I was thinking of running cables from the LEDs that come on when a signal is detected to the fusion brain and make it trigger a skin saying "kA band detected" etc.... just a tough.


on a side note...
i showed the board to my electrical engineering professor today... he was quite fascinated and said "i need one of them little gadgets!"... he was asking about sampling rate and A/D conversion accuracy ...i pointed him to your website...

[2k1Toaster]

Quote: Originally Posted by sgtpepperaut

i seee,

and the digital ins are "on" when voltage is greater than 0?

so lets say i want to create and indicator that displays if my headlights are on....i connect the POS 12 to a (one) digital input port?
also im trying to hook up my "radio detector" to my ride runner. I was thinking of running cables from the LEDs that come on when a signal is detected to the fusion brain and make it trigger a skin saying "kA band detected" etc.... just a tough.


on a side note...
i showed the board to my electrical engineering professor today... he was quite fascinated and said "i need one of them little gadgets!"... he was asking about sampling rate and A/D conversion accuracy ...i pointed him to your website...

If you have a Version 4, then you dont have any digital inputs. But what is digital? Its an analogue value that is usually at one of two values. Therefore, you can use the analogue inputs to measure on/off values. Best of both worlds.

If it was a digital input on Version 3, then anything between 0v and 0.7-0.8v is considered a 0. Anything between 4.2-4.3 and 5v, is considered a 1. Anything inbetween is undetermined, and can have random values.

Also dont connect anything that outputs more than 5v. So your 12v signal needs to be divided and hopefully isolated, then connect it to an input.

The LED indicators will work well. Those values shouldnt be too large, but again always use your multimeter before the magic electronics smoke escape.

The sampling rate is actually quite high, but most of it is thrown away. We used a methodology of the PC gets data when it asks for it. Resolution is 10bit.