Instead of just one camera, like a backup camera, why not have lots of cameras to see what's happening all over?

I can have multiple cameras - front, sides, back - and they all pipe through a four way switch and when the mygig power button is pressed 2x (lockpick) to bring up what would normally be the rear view cam, I can control which camera I want to look at with my switch.

I would imagine that you would be limited only by the switch's number of positions. Of course, the switch would have to control the power supply as well, right? I mean, all the cameras couldn't be powered all the time.

If I found someone really smart I could ask them to somehow combine input from a few cameras onto one screen... and map each camera to a specific part of the screen... and then I could have that infinity-like system that shows a virtual top-down view of the car... but for my jeep. Was that Infinity that did that?

Anyhow, first I have to get the damned mygig working. My new Ruby has 70 miles on it and no navigation.

 

all the above is posible, are you asking?..... or just dreaming

 

Well, I want to do it - the switched multiple cameras at least...

Do you think the other thing is possible? Really? I imagine it to be rather expensive, but how cool would it be to cruise confidently over/past obstacles that are only mm's away?

 

My plan is to put ccd's at each wheel well pointed down, then mux them through a hardware video box (not sure which one yet). The ccd's will be basic rear-view cameras, and should be able to sopt the wheels and diffs.

The mux will put all 4 images on the screen. Would be cool to be able to toggle front/back/all/reverse. Have to figure out the software for that.

Whenever I get to it, I'll post the write-up (assuming someone doesn't beat me to it!).

Right now, the most expensive part is the lock-pik to allow video while driving. Wish I could find a way around that.

 

i think it would be like playing a video game... really take some of the challenge out of it.

 

try tricking the system into thinking that you are in park when you are not. could probably do that with the wires, and i think it was on here as well.

 

Cool - so I'm not the only one. Dealership did an update on mygig and it seems to be working now... I'll start trying to figure things out this weekend.

Thanks to all for the feedback.

 

I know you could trick the 6 spd into thinking it was parked if you pulled up on the e-brake just a notch or two. Not enough to engage the brakes, but enough for the system to think that the e-brake is on. That may have been changed with an update though.