As anyone familiar with these older battery-powered Toshiba laptops knows, these things are finicky at best when it comes to their power supplies. Especially electrolytic capacitors and, apparently, MOSFETS are a problem. The good A year-and-a-half ago I posted about my T1000LE and that it was back to life.That, as it turns out, was a […]
An update on the Arduino OBD-2 library is in place.To be honest, I haven’t been working on this for a while now, as my attention had somewhat shifted to my vintage computer collection.With that being side-tracked for now (as for why; you can read that in my latest Toshiba T1000LE update) I can finally focus […]
I thought it was time I posted another T1000LE update because (quite obviously) everything went not as planned.I really wanted to get the video done by now but editing is a lot of work and since the December festivities start early here in The Netherlands I didn’t have all the spare time I wanted.My aim […]
I finally got around to fixing the T1800 laptop I’ve owned for the last couple of years.This is a project that has been shelved for a long time as I thought it had a BIOS defect which tuner out to be a harddrive (and floppy, I’ll get back to that later) issue. I posted a […]
The new capacitors for the Toshiba T1000LE I talked about in my last post were delivered this weekend. I really was hoping to make some good progress, but of course I ran in to some troubles. The first problem being that unfortunately two of the capacitors are in backorder. They will take two(!) weeks to […]
This is just a quick post as I haven’t made one in quite a while, and for a change it’s not about OBD2 or ELM327 stuff, but rather about some of my Vintage Toshiba laptops. I recently acquired a vintage Toshiba T1000LE laptop which has, as the seller told me, “possibly power supply issues”. Basically, […]
As promised in a previous post, I've committed a very (and I mean very) crude first draft of my take on a ELM327 library for arduino to GitHub. It's largely inspired by the library I'm currently using, with a few exceptions: Support for custom init strings to be added Support for both HardwareSerial and SoftwareSerial for […]
So here's another (small) update on the arduino trip computer project. I keep running into issues with the arduino OBD-2 library (well, actually it's an ELM327 library) that require me to make modifications to it. So firstly I've added support for spaces in ELM327 responses and added a couple of init-commands to the library, as I […]
I've posted an update video to YouTube in which I (hopefully) answer some of the questions that I've gotten over the last couple of weeks. Check it out here:
After seeing some people on YouTube linking an arduino to their car so they could read the current speed, engine RPM and engine temperature, and someone on the Dutch Peugeot 306 forum doing something similar I decided that would be a fun project to tackle. So after some reading on the workings of the ELM327 […]