This project is for a course named "Advanced Motorsports Instrumentation" at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.
The class description is as follows: "A hands-on and practical approach to motorsport’s data acquisition. Instruction to data analysis and industry leading data analysis software; a survey of motorsports centric sensors, wiring and hardware; discussion of real world applications of data analysis from go-karting to sprint cup racing."
This course required a final project that was a motorsport data logger.
The logger was to be constructed from a raspberry pi and use a USB GPS device to log acceleration, speed and direction.
Figure 1: Case for Components
As soon as I acquired the raspberry pi, screen and battery bank I quickly got to work designing an enclosure for the entire system.
Figure 2: Enclosure Bottom
I first designed the bottom half of the enclosure. This part of the enclosure houses the battery bank and stylus. The hole in the left handle is for the stylus and the hole in the bottom of the model is for the power button on the battery bank.
Figure 3: Enclosure Top
The top half of the enclosure would help secure the screen and raspberry pi to the bottom half with the batter bank. The hole in the very right half of the model is used to gain access to the USB ports on the power bank. A micro USB cable would be connected from these ports around to the back wall and through the rectangular hole in to the raspberry pi. The hole on the left side of the case is designed to allow access to the USB ports on the raspberry pi. This allows the user to attach and detach the GPS receiver.
Figure 4: Final Assembly Video
The video above shows the final assembly of the logger along with the data collection and analysis.
The code for the raspberry pi is released on the canvas page for this course. I will not attach this document because it is not my property. If you are already in the class this means you have access to this document. Simply follow the instructions on the document and your logger will work perfectly.
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