This repository details the requried hardware to build a Digilent chipKIT-based vehicle interface that's compatible with the OpenXC platform.

The documentation is formatted as a jekyll-powered site.

If you do not have ruby and RubyGems installed (you already do on OS X), see below.

Assuming you have Ruby and RubyGems installed:

$ gem install rdiscount jekyll

Then, assuming you have Python's pip installed:

$ pip install pygements

Then run the local development server:

$ cd chipkit-vehicle-interface
$ jekyll serve -w

and point your browser to http://localhost:4000.

Jekyll uses the templates in the repository to generate a static html version of the site. The static version is always dumped in the _site subdirectory in the repository - this is not committed, since it's automatically generated. The -w flag turns on auto-recompilation, so anytime you change a file it will regenerate whatever files have changed, so you just need to refresh the browser to see your latest updates.

Cygwin in Windows

Install the ruby, make, gcc, libiconv and zlib packages in Cygwin using the setup.exe you downloaded earlier. Download the RubyGems TGZ package from http://rubygems.org/pages/download and put it in C:\cygwin\home\<your username>. Fire up Cygwin and run this:

$ tar -xzf rubygems*.tgz
$ cd rubygems*
$ ruby setup.rb

Jekyll depends on posix-spawn v0.3.6, but that has a problem with compiling in Cygwin. The latest development version works, though, so install that gem from source before continuing:

$ git clone https://github.com/rtomayko/posix-spawn.git
$ cd posix-spawn
$ gem build posix-spawn.gemspec
$ gem install posix-spawn-0.3.6.gem

If you didn't get any errors, return to the top of this section and install jekyll.

The site is hosted on GitHub pages, so deploying is as simple as commiting your changes in the gh-pages branch and pushing to GitHub. It gets regenerated within a minute or two, and it's live. This of course means don't push anything in the gh-pages branch that isn't 100% done!

_layouts/default.html contains the main layout for the site.

There's lots you can do with the templates (they're using the Liquid template engine) - see the Jekyll docs: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki.

See the CONTRIBUTORS file.

Except as otherwise noted, the content of the website is licensed by Ford Motor Company under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.