Hi, many of you will have heard of MegaSquirt, FreeEMS is a DIY EFI and Ignition project of a similar nature except with GPL licensing and TAPR licensing on code and hardware respectively.
Quite a few MegaSquirt users were dissatisfied with a number of aspects of both the MS products and the community itself so I put in a lot of effort and produced
The project began at the very beginning of the year and the site was publicly launched on April first. There has been a lot of progress made on it continuously since then. One of the other members is working on schematic and PCB designs for a first edition hardware design and myself and another member are working on firmware for it. Several people are working on or interested in working on open source tuning software tools to support it.
Currently we don't have any engines running, however that time is drawing nearer daily. I estimate that we will have a basic functional system up and running at least one engine by the end of the year. Once that occurs popularity is bound to take off in a big way due to the free nature of it and unrestricted hardware platform. In contrast MegaSquirt firmware is restricted to running on MegaSquirt hardware and thus free sharing of information on custom hardware solutions is not encouraged or even permitted.
Basic specs are/will be : XDP512 Freescale CPU Tech Arts 100 pin plug in CPU board Firmware/Hardware support for 6 cyilnder sequential fuel and 8 - 12 semi sequential fuel Firmware support for 12 cylinder Coil On Plug ignition
91 IO pins total 16 10 bit ADC pins 8 8 bit PWM pins OR 4 16 bit PWM pins or some combination there of 2 hardware accurate engine position inputsFeel free to check out the site and get involved if you wish.
Cheers,
Fred.