Requesting help for a car radio head unit project

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Hello all, I am not into rpis or in coding at all, so I am looking for someone to program for me a custom car project.

I need for my 1977 car that I am restoring and want to bring it to the digital age :slight_smile:

So, I would like to create a custom raspberry pi (I already have a pi 4 b) project for my car dashboard. It is basically going to be a car radio head unit (using open Auto I guess) but with only 4 functions separated in two screens.

· Screen #1 (dual touch circle screens in extend mode that I already have)

Music player. Play from Spotify or from a local USB drive with MP3s, appearance (I will provide screenshot and video on email) I can provide the images and graphics. The player will be controlled by a universal remote control (that I already have) to control the source (swap between Spotify and local player), next list, previous list, next song, previous song, shuffle on / off, Play / Pousse and volume control.

· Screen #2 (stretch bar touchscreen that I don’t have and looking to buy one)

iPhone Bluetooth connection, screen mirroring and doing / receiving calls etc. and viewing the reverse camera when the reverse gear is on the gearbox.

So, I would like to ask

#1 Is this project doable?

#2 Could someone program the whole project and guide me to set it up?

#3 If the answer is yes to the above questions, how much would that cost?

Dual round screens that I already have:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007592481110.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.1.69c546c0haQT3m&algo_pvid=2804c380-08dc-41ad-93ef-8e15ddfbdcb2&algo_exp_id=2804c380-08dc-41ad-93ef-8e15ddfbdcb2-0&pdp_npi=4%40dis!EUR!82.10!64.71!!!84.30!66.44!%402103834817333936301678060e7e0c!12000041424494583!sea!GR!0!ABX&curPageLogUid=esZ7hrG6ZMGX&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch|query_from%3A

Thank you very much in advance for your time, looking forward for someone to respond – Tasos.

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Hey @Tasos284886, welcome to the forums!

This sounds like an awesome project! If you don’t mind me asking, what car exactly is it? This is purely for curiosity’s sake on my end!

I’ll go ahead and answer your questions up-front:

  1. Yes, this project is absolutely doable.

  2. This is a fairly big ask. I am not aware of anywhere that offers this service, but I’m sure you could pay some uni student or similar to help out. Regardless, we don’t facilitate this and cannot advise how much this would cost.

My issue with this above is that I would strongly encourage you to attempt this yourself. The entire purpose of a Raspberry Pi is to allow relatively inexperienced people to sink their teeth into programming and programmable computers.

Python might be intimidating if you’ve never tried it before, but it only gets easier from here. We have loads of guides on our site, and heaps of staff and community members who love helping new makers figure this stuff out.

If you need a starting point, here’s a recent video by Jeff Geerling that can introduce you to Raspberry Pi’s in a simple way.

If you decide to take this project on yourself, let us know, and we can help create a roadmap or similar for it’s creation.

Hope this helps!