Ryan’s Status Report for 2/20/21

This week we spoke with our professor and TA about the shortcomings of our initial idea. Since our meeting on Monday, I spent time considering other ideas for our capstone project. When we decided on a driving assistant I spent time researching the different ways of tracking car data. We discussed bringing in our own sensors that would attach to a RaspberryPi, but came to the conclusion that in order to get the widest range and most accurate data measurements, the best option would be to gather the information from the CANbus through the OBDII port. I researched a few methods for getting this data including commercial solutions that came with their own software, but decided that with a RaspberryPi and PiCAN attachment, we could collect and decipher the CANbus data ourselves. Additionally, I contributed to the proposal presentation slides we made.