Back up camera installed - *testing*

Today was a very good, productive day

I finally was able to hook up "rear view camera" to my MY09 e90 M3.

It was a testing day to make sure everything works the way it should and I didn't complete the installation 100%. I am still planing on testing tomorrow "front view camera" and "video streaming from iPhone/iPod".

A few quick pictures









This kit will be available to all m3post members by the end of the month. You can pm me for more information.

Finally...you are the man doba!

will it work on 08 M3?

slammedm3 wrote

will it work on 08 M3?

yes, Sir ... it will

Nice, gald you figure it out. It looks exactly just like the one on my car now

Johnny Lin wrote

Nice, gald you figure it out. It looks exactly just like the one on my car now

yep, but I have a different camera ...

Congrats on the work and cool preview!

Please offer:

1. A stealthy looking and small camera with solid simply mounting
2. Ease of installation allowing conversion back to stock
3. The ability to turn on the camera while driving forward
4. A fair price

With that you'll get my business and lots more I suspect.

swamp2 wrote

Congrats on the work and cool preview!

Please offer:

1. A stealthy looking and small camera with solid simply mounting
2. Ease of installation allowing conversion back to stock
3. The ability to turn on the camera while driving forward
4. A fair price

With that you'll get my business and lots more I suspect.

Your posts are f'n hilarious sometimes.

You are a piece of work.

swamp2 wrote

Congrats on the work and cool preview!

Please offer:

1. A stealthy looking and small camera with solid simply mounting
2. Ease of installation allowing conversion back to stock
3. The ability to turn on the camera while driving forward
4. A fair price

With that you'll get my business and lots more I suspect.

This was my way of thinking when I started working on it ...

All of that has been achieved, but I am not sure about the ability to turn on the camera while driving forward. I see what I can do ...

can you make it record-able so we can film in the track.

Excellent . . . looking forward to the end of the month.

davedave wrote

can you make it record-able so we can film in the track.

Good idea, but that would add a great deal of complexity to the design.

I think he should focus on getting the initial camera system up and running first. ('bug free' of course )

This is one of the positive aspects of belonging to an online community.

Products like this can be introduced by "the common man", with a lot of hard work and determination.

Kudos to doba for building a functional front/rear camera kit for our cars.

Wow, great job man. You plan on making this available to the public then? Any idea of when?

davedave wrote

can you make it record-able so we can film in the track.

It has one AV/OUT, so I guess you will be able to connect the recording device

MyKmYk wrote

Wow, great job man. You plan on making this available to the public then? Any idea of when?

It should be ready in a few weeks.

Thanks.

davedave wrote

can you make it record-able so we can film in the track.

For occasionally, I use Sony T900 Camera with a 16Gb Memory Card, I mount camera at license plate with a thick plastic glass. Camera can record at 720p with ~30 fps. Just want to have some fun.

doba_s wrote

yes, Sir ... it will

NICE!

Any idea as to the approx price of this?

swamp2 wrote

Congrats on the work and cool preview!

Please offer:

1. A stealthy looking and small camera with solid simply mounting
2. Ease of installation allowing conversion back to stock
3. The ability to turn on the camera while driving forward
4. A fair price

With that you'll get my business and lots more I suspect.

I agree with all 4 points above, but I especially agree with the ability to turn on camera while driving forward, this is a nice option to have and it should be pretty simple to do compared to the whole project at hand.

doba_s wrote

This was my way of thinking when I started working on it ...

All of that has been achieved, but I am not sure about the ability to turn on the camera while driving forward. I see what I can do ...

OMG...i'm sold.

sold as well

slammedm3 wrote

I agree with all 4 points above, but I especially agree with the ability to turn on camera while driving forward, this is a nice option to have and it should be pretty simple to do compared to the whole project at hand.

I will work on that, but the firs version wont have that option.

Thanks.

doba_s wrote

I will work on that, but the firs version wont have that option.

Thanks.

fair enough,

could you shed some light on the estimated cost?