I recently purchased a Fiat 500 as a run about car. Being a 2014 model it has most of the modern conveniences that you would want on it with the exception of cruise control. Oddly, at least for the Australian market, cruise control was not even an option you could order from Fiat. This is strange as in modern cars with electronic throttles adding cruise control can be as simple as adding the switch and enabling the option in the cars’ computer. Manufacturers love this as it’s a $20 part that you can retail for $700. Continue reading “Adding Cruise Control to a Fiat 500”
Category: Car Mods
ESP8266 Digital Speedo
The background of this project is that the speedo gear in my Ford KA wore out and that would mean swapping in the spare gearbox I had, and a lot of greasy work. It sounded like not a fun job, but coding up a wemos D1 mini to read a GPS module to display speed did sound like a bit more fun than a gearbox swap. So It was off to ebay to invest in a GPS board to connect to the wemos D1 mini and OLED display I had lying around.