Gatherer/hunter

Heyhey, it's been a while. I've been superbusy since our fleet of cars has completely renewed, except of course for the Probe. So there's been a lot of stuff and also I've made a few jobs for my friends here and there, only got like 2-3 days on the Probe since last post. Also we dropped by Rome and are heading to NYC next month, which is eating the crumbs of Probe's sad little budget but especially since we won't have access to cheap flight tickets anymore after next month, it's well worth it & justified.

I've been able to gather necessary stuff for the Probe quite a lot, should keep me busy for a month or so, so I guess I could show you what I got so far.

Most of the RPi stuff is here at last, still missing a few bits. Here's the Raspberry, Numpad for working it, USB hub for sticks and stuff, a new welding station I found and a breadboard so I can try out a electric schematic I've made. I want the Raspberry to automatically detect when the key is turned off and turn itself off automatically, and since it's a PC it needs to go to shutdown on itself as well. Well that's pretty much solved, just need the bits and pieces.

Also there's a amplifier wiring kit, still missing a lot of cabling but that was the only real money hole there.

Actually got this stuff earlier, there's Raspberry stuff mostly. Also a DVB-T digibox I got since I wanted a radio for my car and the ad said it had one; turns out it has only the digital radio DAB which is useless in Finland. Also, I discovered a normal digibox doesn't work well when the car is moving, so it's not going in after all, shame. Oh well only 20€ for a recording digibox, thank you anyway China. :D
 

Just today I got some carpet for the floor and trunk. Swheeeet! It's actually a bit more tinted to red wine than what it looks like in the picture, but I think it's still red rather than burgundy so I'm cool. At least it's not orangeish.

Here's my paps power tools and some wood I finally got my hands on. Now I can start building the trunk rig and new floor panel. That should be the next project.

Also, some pics of things I've been working on;

This is a 230V AC --> 12V DC power supply custom install I made so I can try all the LEDs and gadgets before putting them in the car. Girlfriend approved it in the house. ;)


Also here's the paint operation I finished a while back for my friends car fender, it turned out to be probably the best paint job I've ever done so I wanted to share it with you. Near flawless, even though I had to do it with aerosol and in our dusty and dark garage.

So that's that. As you might see, I'm not even in the middle point so might be that I won't drive the Probe this summer, but I don't think I want to either, not without the interior done. Because it would be pretty easy to wrap it up now and just drive for the summer, but I think I'll rather keep working on it. The budgets tight as you know so it's taking a long long time to get things done..

But we'll get there eventually!

Expect some work pics next time.