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How to add a coolant pressure sensor and avoid a rookie mistake

Know before you overheat, not when you’re overheating Installing a coolant pressure sensor gives you the advance warning you need to handle a coolant pressure leak and avoid a time consuming failure, or worse – a catastrophic failure like a blown head gasket that will send you and your race team packing and home early. Plus, you’ll…

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RaceCapture Kickstarter: Rev B board is alive! WiFi module! 1.4.3 RaceCapture app!

(You can also find this post in our Kickstarter update!) Got data? SOON. Team FUHaul’s RaceCapture dashboard! Rev B board: built and smoke tested It’s alive! We got the Rev B board built and smoke tested – meaning, we did basic verification of GPS, IMU (Accelerometer / Gyro) and CAN bus. Passed smoke test! Passing smoke test…

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Help us test extended BMW E46 CAN channels

Photo courtesy of Tony Harrison, with permission (CC-BY-SA) Got a RaceCapture/Pro and an E46?  We need your help! The 2.8.7 release of the RaceCapture/Pro firmware adds an important feature which lets us extract CAN bus data at a more detailed level.  This unlocks a number of additional telemetry channels for the E46, including individual wheel speeds, fuel…

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Cyber Monday special – Free shipping!

Enjoy free shipping from now through November 30 on orders $150 and higher, including RaceCapture/Pro, Megajolt and accessories. Use the coupon code cybermonday2015 at checkout! Yes, international too The team agonized on this a bit, knowing how expensive international shipping can be. Fact is, we wouldn’t be where we are without the early support of our worldwide community, so this…

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Community driven development

Here at Autosport Labs we pride ourselves in being a non-traditional motorsports technology company. We build hardware and software that we, grassroots racers want. We also open source much of the software we write, notably the RaceCapture App and RaceCapture firmware. This week we took another step towards being non-traditional and moved our feature list…

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