Category: Magazine Articles
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Rewriting My EV’s Vehicle Control Software with an Agentic Workflow
I rewrote my Caterham Seven EV’s vehicle-control software from a clean sheet using ChatGPT Codex. Here’s what the system now does, how my supervised agentic workflow operates, and why AI-generated code still requires architecture, testing, independent review and real bench evidence.
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Project sEVen pt 10: Project Update and Software re-write with AI
A detailed July update on the Purple Meanie Caterham Seven EV conversion, including the rebuilt VCU software, ESP32 web interface, updated bench hardware and live precharge demonstration.
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Spectrogram: An Agentic Coding Side Quest Into Final Cut Pro Audio Analysis
If you already live and breathe audio analysis, feel free to skip this bit and go straight to the tale of plugin architecture, notarization and mild host-induced despair. A spectrogram is a way of visualising sound over time. Instead of just showing amplitude, like a waveform does, it shows: So rather than seeing a wiggly…
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Project sEVen Pt9: Traction DC2DC converter Bring Up
Project sEVen update covering traction DC-DC converter bring-up, high-voltage testing, low-voltage integration, CAN bus work, and the Caterham EV testbench.
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project sEVen Jan26 Update Short
Quick update video. Just getting the test bench set up. Lots is going to change in the next few weeks.
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Project sEVen Update Feb26 Short
Brusa BDC668 traction DC2DC converter working on the bench. A quick update on progress with my Project sEVen test bench. As I build up the system to eventually get my motor spinning on the bench, today I get as far as running up the Brusa BDC668 to do a DC to DC conversion of 40V…
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GVRET and BDC668 Dissectors for Wireshark
Technical notes on GVRET and BDC668 Wireshark dissectors, using CAN bus tooling to inspect and understand Project sEVen diagnostic and power-electronics data.
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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.