Building a Night Vision Dash Cam using a Raspberry Pi 3 or committing suicide lol

[RainMotorsports]

I am ready to slit my own throat trying to get this stupid screen working on my RPi. I am about to install Windows 10 for IoT on the bitch and be done with it as I believe someone has gotten this display working.

I don't have an IR light source yet so I used a TV remote to create this gastly video test:

Pics of the parts so far:

Lazarus works on RPi distros so I can comfortably write the entire interface in Pascal. If I install windows I will have to stumble through C#.

 

[2Tartu]

Will you be posting a guide once you get it to work? Better yet - a youtube video so you'd make money off this

 

[RainMotorsports]

Will you be posting a guide once you get it to work? Better yet - a youtube video so you'd make money off this

If you want my advice. Buy a fucking dash cam lol. Its a cute idea. Buy a $35 Pi and get the camera and you have a cheap dash cam under 100 bucks. Well to do that your gonna have to get a knock off camera and definitely run without a screen. Im $140 in so far. Pi + Case I didnt need because all they had were kits. The screen, camera and SD card.

I have the screen working. It's cheaper at this size to use an SPI interface screen. Going HDMI is expensive. The only screen that out of the box can use the DSI connector is the official screen which is fucking 7 inches and 80 dollars lol.

The down side to screens on the SPI bus are they are framebuffer devices. They cant make use of the GPU. It's slow and no games work etc.

I am almost tempted to get the official 7 inch screen and build a head unit out of it. I mean its about the only way it will be worth it and even then its not.

 

[Medic_3223]

Yeah dashcams are not that expensive lol. I bouhgt mine with HD and wide focal lens and its was only like 120. Although no green night vision it sees pretty clearly within range of the front of the vehicle.

 

[2Tartu]

Would some mid-range webcam not have worked for your project?

 

[RainMotorsports]

I cut up the case and taped it back together. I have a working prototype lol. Going to mount it in the car for a daytime drive. Created a desktop shell script that will record videos about a half an hour at a time. Until I write some actual software for it.

 

[RainMotorsports]

I have GPU acclerated output now working on the framebuffer screen which both means Minecraft and video output now work on the screen instead of just HDMI.

Now time to start creating an interface: