Category: Caterham & Lotus 7 Club
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ESP32RET on an Adafruit ESP32-S3 TFT
Well, this was another one of those rabbit hole projects. I’d got myself a home grown CANbus sniffer that talked in the Lawicel format to SavvyCan and allowed me to sniff CANbus data reasonably reliably. BUT, I had to be connected to the sniffer over a serial interface and that was becoming a problem in…
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Debugging the ZombieVerter WebInterface
This post is going to be: I’ll probably do a video about all of this soon, because there’s way more to see than I can realistically add as images to this post. The link to the video will appear here if I get around to it. But if you’re in the market for this kind…
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Project sEVen pt8: Custom Gearbox Assembly – YOUTUBE VIDEO
Project sEVen gearbox assembly video covering the custom gearbox work, mechanical packaging decisions, and drivetrain context for the Caterham electric conversion.
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Project sEven pt7 : Q&A and Weekly Updates
Project sEVen Q&A and weekly update video covering the mission, project feasibility, recent progress, and viewer questions around the Caterham EV conversion.
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Caterham SV Prop-Shaft Scan
The next in the list of things I’ve scanned is the prop-shaft from a Caterham Seven SV. It’s taken me a couple of years to get around to extracting this from the EV project car, but I need a model now to verify the CAD for the gearbox that’s being designed.
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Putting the EV in Seven – Two Year Mega Update Video
Two-year Project sEVen update covering EV packaging, high-voltage and low-voltage systems, battery and motor-controller work, gearbox decisions, 3D scanning, and overall project progress.
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Caterham 5/6 Speed Gearbox Mount Scan
3D scan reference for the Caterham 5/6 speed gearbox mount, supporting Project sEVen packaging, CAD work, and drivetrain geometry decisions.
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Putting the EV in Seven: Progress #3, 3D Scanning the Project Car
Project sEVen progress video covering 3D scanning the stripped Caterham project car to create CAD references for EV packaging, drivetrain layout, and component positioning.
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Caterham SV Nose Cone Scan
Well this one was a long time coming. I’d been wanting to scan my nose cone for ages. Mainly with the intention of modeling and printing a “bracket” for the number plate – which flaps around a bit on its velcro mount. But the first thing to do was get a scan. I tried a…
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Putting the EV in sEVen – Progress #2 Strip Down and Weigh-in
Project sEVen progress video covering the Caterham strip-down, removal of the internal-combustion drivetrain, weigh-in work, and related EV project events.