Reid’s Status Report for 3/6/21

This week was a little slower since our team has been waiting for parts, which I put in orders for on Wednesday. So far we have received our OBDII to VGA cable in the mail via Amazon, and I was able to find my OBDII port on my own car for testing. The wire is long enough for our device to fit on the dash. We also decided  to pivot from our camera idea since it didn’t have enough value for the end consumer. I also solidified which data I was using from the OBDII port so I can target specific sections of the CANBus data string, and came up with a data schema for my part of the project for our final design presentation. I researched more about the makeup of the OBDII string and where the specific data is located, and made some bit shifting masks that we will be using on our Raspberry Pi to find velocity, accelerator position, hazard lights and steering wheel information.