Brainiac 10.1" Infotainment System
 

Anyone seen this or know anything about these guys?

http://workshoptwelve.com/2015/06/17...ens-announced/

Looks promising. Would need to see a bunch load of features before i take out my NEX.

Looks like they're going for Tesla-esque integration. A forum post on nasioc says they're even working on air suspension control.

im interested.

Interesting concept. Wonder what the planned price point it is? I love the IDEA of a 10" Display and Can Bus interface. It would be great if you could flash the ECU's Roms and monitored additional parameters similar to OFT.

The idea of my Cars brains being connected to the Internet makes me a bit nervous though. Now my car becomes "hackable" by someone across the globe. Wonder what they are doing about security?

Since you can do Environmental controls through the interface, I'm assuming that the current ones will be removed and replaced with the Brainiac. If the Brainiac goes on the fritz, it could be very unpleasant in the middle of the Winter\Summer. Just some things to think about

Wow that setup looks promising. Do they mention cost anywhere? Are we looking at $1000+?

I would imagine this is going to cost considerably more than $1000...

Pretty much this. We're talking about something that will cost quite a bit. I just don't see it being worth it, especially on first gen system.

They stated that their planned price point was about the same as other high end 7" double din units currently available on the market.

Got a reply from Workshop12 (the MFG) on NASIOC. Guys, check this out...

Dunno if there is some kind of misunderstanding here. If not OMG!

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...php?p=43581748

that actually makes sense. if the brainac thing is a full on tablet and the software is written well then there is no reason that they can't program autoclimate control into it. it will probably require some kind of temp sensor that i believe non autoclimate cars don't have, but other than that it should be easy. "should be." now that doesn't mean that dual climate control is possible in cars that don't already have it because a lot of that is physical parts that you would have to swap out, but still. could be very cool.

I can see this giving auto climate control but not "dual" climate control.

In for more info!!

Hi Everyone,

First thank-you to everyone for your interest in Brainiac!

We're just going through the process of becoming an official vendor so that we can actively answer any of your questions and post updates.

Stay tuned... :)

Sub'd :popcorn:

Hi Everyone,

We're now officially a vendor on FT86 Club. We've started up a thread in the classifieds where we'll continue to provide updates on our progress as we continue to push towards making Brainiac commercially available. Feel free to join in the conversation :)

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showt...=1#post2323176

Correct. For the FR-S we can only do a single zone climate control since it doesn't have the extra electronics of the BRZ.


But we do have our own temperature sensor so we can make the existing electronic climate control be "automatic" based on a temperature that you set.

Very interesting, too bad we will probably have to wait a long time for this to come out. :(

Good things almost always do. @Workshop12 seems to be moving along nicely though. Do not despair Bananapie, August 12th at ImportFest is where they'll be showing their progress. I'm sure the 86 won't be too many months behind. GET HYPED!

Eager to see those who preordered one do an install and review video!!!

Everyone needs to go read the Brainiac: Connected Car Technology thread in the classifieds. It has answers to nearly everything.

And for those who are "search" challenged:


http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91716

So the 10.1 inch is $999? For a stock FRS will this be simple plug n play? (Trust me I tried reading all the articles but some were months back and may not be up to date)

No, price is $1,399 USD. And it's sorta plug and play for the base FRS. You'll need to order a few parts and install them to make the automatic climate controls function. Other than that, yes it's plug and play. They even provide the automatic climate control wiring.

Project has been cancelled. Due to lack of investors, Workshop 12 has stopped progressing on all Brainiac projects indefinitely. All pre-orders cancelled.


https://workshoptwelve.com/2016/04/1...ange-of-plans/

Try to direct comments and or any words of support to the original thread.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showt...87#post2621887

This thread is closed. Don't know what that means for Workshop12, but the owner also put his project Batmobile up for sale. Life changes. Very sad to see this project die as it had so much promise and so much work done. This leaves lots to think about. Best of luck @Workshop12 and Tim.

No I was really looking forward to this :(

I do wonder if there's anything that can be salvaged out of this for the DIYer. Was a very interesting project, to be sure. Bummer that it's not happening.

Doubt it, they supposedly had a bunch of investors look at it and say it's nonviable on a business front. They probably had some pretty expensive components and were going to find cheaper sources closer to production.

What we have learned is amount of work needed to make a totally "connected" car.

I'm not going to expect the price is something that could be done at scale - however, it appears that some pretty nifty software work was completed, and some hardware was sourced that does the job.

I don't expect the software to be open-sourced, but if I were able to get a handle on what parts I needed, where I could get them, and software to power the stuff, I admit I'd be tempted to give it a whirl. I could probably figure out the software given enough time and effort (and desire to make it happen) on my part, but... Maybe I'll get there some day.

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Bummer that this got cancelled. I was hoping that I'd come back on these forums and see this project completed.

This was a cool idea.

I'm still interested to know what specifically was so hard about the climate control to make this a non-viable option for the twins...

In case anyone else was still watching this, the website is still stating R&D stages. I just wish the pieces were actually available on Shapeways so that I could start experimenting.

https://workshoptwelve.com/frs-brz-86/

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Glad you're still paying attention to this. Did they ever explain what happened when they abruptly folded up and killed the original Braniac project? They were so far along and then out of the blue, Workshop12 posted something like "we were told it won't make money", and them boom. Dead project. From looking at the website, it looks like they reactivated with 370 kits some time ago.

Many twins don't have auto climate control. That was the killer application. So they made a list of parts (servos and what not) that needed to be purchased, but before this could be prototyped they seemed to have killed the project.

The list of parts is still in a dead thread somewhere (or maybe even this thread). I've seen it, maybe if I can find it, I'll repost it.

Seems to me the "easiest" solution for the manual controls would be to relocate the existing manual controls to the bottom or top of the stack and work with the space left, or engineer a smaller set of controls that would take up less room but are plug and play with the existing controls rather than trying to make the system something else.

This.

I mean, having the HVAC controls built in would be great, this whole Braniac thing is built on Android. That gives the ability to basically do anything your heart contents, including adding this feature later.

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