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Old 10-10-2013, 12:24 PM
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Smile anyone to get involved with a DIY ecu?

I know it's a bit ambitious and I know there are a couple of open source ECU projects around, but...

I am a software developer and cars are just a hobby. Looking at the existing aftermarket engine control units I believe time has come for a simple, clear and extendable EFI project. We have boards under $20 running at speeds above 100MHz, we have some great real real-time operation systems - I believe these things combined should make a very simple EFI possible.

Actually I have my test car running with my code, with hardware on the clumsy side:


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Old 11-08-2013, 06:57 AM
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Here is an update - new board and a little bit of driving

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This is way too cool.
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Old 11-25-2013, 10:29 AM
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There is a tiny community on rusefi.com • Index page if you are interested to join this.
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Old 02-06-2014, 02:18 PM
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Status update:

ordering a new board next week

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How is this coming along?
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Old 03-13-2014, 09:49 PM
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Thanks for asking!

The new board works, it's a much cleaner hardware setup. Obviously just a baby step, but still - a good step.

Tomorrow I am mailing an assembled board to Canada and another one to Slovakia, hopefully things would go well there.

Here is a fresh video:

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PS: we now have some info on the project wiki - rusefi.com/wiki/
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There is now a kickstarter for this - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-unit-ecu-firm
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Still making some progress with all this, got a new even nicer board recently:


Open source as all the other stuff: rusefi.com • View topic - Frankenso - ECU shield compatible with OEM case

The biggest issue right now is the fact that I've reached the ceiling of my own car skills with this. While I've got the software covered, I am not exactly capable to tune a car from scratch. Desperately need some gearheads to try this
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