Matt and Dave are driving from Perth to Darwin in a $1,000 car for Cancer Council and have decided to deck it out with as much Internet-connected tech as a 12v battery can push through a second-hand inverter. The developers at Deepend and Nomad Agency have weighed in, building a website in a week, a Rasberry Pi cluster containing a LAMP stack to harvest photos and sensor information, to manage Spotify streams and several redundant Internet connections.<\/p>\n
The guys at GoGet were more than happy to pitch in, so they’ve donated time and equipment to wire up the car with the Fleetcutter telematics hardware and a custom server, which I’ve just finished installing. It’s in fact an full installation of the fleet-management system, doubling up as a trial of the Fleetcutter SaaS offering I’ve been developing over the last 6 months. More importantly they’ve donated an snazzy orange wing-mirror.<\/p>\n
It’s been a win-win situation for the two companies as Deepend’s urgent need of a smart API into the vehicle has really focused my efforts on tidying up the Fleetcutter offering, which is incredibly powerful and complex internally but doesn’t have a simple interface for open consumption by developers (at least not for internal business purposes, it has several public<\/em> APIs). Having a specific set of urgent needs from experienced developers has been given me clarity in an MVP API.<\/p>\n It’s amazing what you can achieve as a team when you get all behind a charitable venture with a deadline!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is what (probably) we’re planning to build in the next two months. Quite a bit is already done, but there’s still a long way to go. I’m sure there’s going to be some late nights in April…<\/p>\n You can read more details of our progress on Deepend’s Chrysalis blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n So far:<\/p>\n http:\/\/chrysalis.deepend.com.au\/technology\/rally-the-future-against-cancer-shitbox-repairs-part-1<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/chrysalis.deepend.com.au\/technology\/shtboxrallyweek2update<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/chrysalis.deepend.com.au\/shitbox-rally-2\/rally-the-future-against-cancer-shtspiration<\/a><\/p>\n And don’t forget to donate to Cancer Council at\u00a0RallyTheFuture!<\/a>\u00a0Thanks.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As if I wasn’t busy enough already… with three jobs, a never-ending house reno and a list of unfinished personal projects stretching back to my teens. So of course, I’ve got involved in a new crazy venture which has led … Continue reading ![\"Shitbox](\"https:\/\/scipilot.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Shitbox-tech-ACD-v2.png\")
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