Slow Progress

So a lack of progress has conveniently coincided with the Summer months (holy hell it gets hot), but in the meantime, here's what's happened on this project.

I got tires put on the wheels. Not really a big deal, but it looks nice - that happened probably a week or two after my last post.

 They're actually on the vehicle now, but I'm not getting out of my chair to take another picture. Deal with it.

I got the basic system (aka raspberry pi) running for the signals/lights/speedometer/whatever I feel like set up. I thought I bought a touchscreen for it, but I was wrong. Just a normal screen. Oh well.

The base Raspberry Pi is being augmented with the piface ioshield. It looks like it should be capable of what I need it to do, but I haven't gotten the chance to play with it much.

Steering

So I managed to finish assembling the steering today. As of now, there's  little wobble in the support column (which hopefully I'll be able to work out by properly tightening the bolt, or replacing with a welded stud), and I'm not sure how well the "adjustable" feature is going to work, but it steers, at the very least!

Floors!

Spent today cutting sheet steel with tinsnips. My hands hurt like a bitch. But I have floors, and a firewall done!

Here's everything laid out on the 2 4'x4' .024 zinc plated steel. For a moment I was super excited that the extra from one sheet would barely be able to cover the battery/motor compartment as well. Then I realized I was a dumbass and didn't properly understand how trapezoids work. Oh well. I'll just fill that detail in later.

And after a few hours of tin-snips, tiny cuts, and sore hands, this is the result:

 Also, this was the first time I fit the wheels/brake rotors onto the uprights. The right upright appears fine, but the left one displays some interference between the rotor and the upright. The nuts also do not want to thread onto one of the studs. I'll look into it another day.