Turning a ’82 Westy into a Tesla
summary
A project to add connected sensors to a 1982 Volkswagen Westfalia using ESP8266 Wi‑Fi modules and a Raspberry Pi central unit. The talk explains flashing custom firmware on ~$3 ESP8266 chips to read sensor signals via GPIO and publish readings over MQTT, and describes a Java-based central server that provides real-time local and remote web interfaces for monitoring oil pressure, oil temperature, water level and similar data.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:12Converting Westy to Tesla
- 5:48Sensor and hardware choices
- 9:18ESP8266 project basics
- 12:26MQTT messaging protocol
- 16:57Oil temperature sensor build
- 33:15Live demo and results
- 40:57Closing and home tips
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