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Originally Posted by Toma
Why not a Microsquirt. Literally 200 $ and you could output one of the ignition channels or whatever and have lots of additional output or inputs for other toys.
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that's a great idea. my only argument would be that, being that megasquirt isn't very useful as an FI tuning tool on these cars (wish it was, but with a subaru the stock ecu can be reflashed, rendering it unnecessary), it doesn't really serve any purpose that couldn't be accomplished much simpler and cheaper with a bespoke atmega board and some code.
i would suggest that we prototype the whole thing on an arduino then move to having bespoke boards printed. that will result in the lowest possible cost, can be completely open source (megasquirt is not, very important detail), and it will allow people with an arduino at home to wire their own circuit and use it as is.
with an open source project it is extremely important that there are no proprietary dependencies. every link in the chain must be something like GPL or MIT licensed.