This is for older car models that do not have built-in navigation or bad navigation. My car is old enough to have a cassette player.
This model is made for a Toyota Yaris from 2001 and the phone inside is an S21 Ultra that would otherwise have been sitting in a drawer.
I have sacrificed the original sunvisor to get the swivel part out and modeled a new sunvisor around it. Since this car is really old it’s okay to make these modifications.
So far the driving experience has improved a lot, it is a pretty decent location for a navigation system since you can focus on driving much more easily than having to look down and to the right.
The models and FreeCAD design file may be found here:
https://www.printables.com/model/1256013-toyota-yaris-sun-visor-with-navigation-phone
I like it, however are you concerned about having something made out of hard plastic, glass and metal at roughly head height in the event of a crash?
Having seen a few improvised claymore mines in cars (rhinestones or diamontes on steering wheels or dashes) it’s always something I consider.
Very good point that I haven´t even considered yet. Hmm. I suppose mounting anything on the steering wheel (where the airbag comes out) is very dangerous.
Theoretically the airbag should hit my face first before the sun visor does. Hopefully neither ever will.
One could say that it’s a “supervisor”.
/not quitting my day job
For cars like that I’d just recommend the Android head units that will slide right into the radio hole.
This car doesn´t have an easily removable radio. It is possible to make a fake cassette tape and mount it in there at best. Right now I have a bluetooth fake cassette tape that connects to my phone.
Yes, way easier and doesn’t sacrifice your field of view.
I’m a big fan of Radiohole, especially their song Grape (“I’m a grape, I’m a raisin.”)
Nice
I wish I could upvote this twice: once for continuing to drive (and improve) an old car, and then again for modeling it in FreeCAD instead of some proprietary shit.
Hah, well I’m not far away from getting rid of this car. It has about 320000km mileage and the issues here and there are getting worse. Perhaps it’s still worth something to someone.
FreeCAD is great. Sure it’s not perfect but I greatly prefer that over corporate crapware that gets worse with every update. FreeCAD gets better instead.
or the “Head-up-Display we have at home”
How does it handle the heat of being in a car? The mirror housings I made for my dirt bike got a bit soft just being outside in summer sun (until I annealed them), and inside a car can get pretty toasty. My mirrors were PLA though, if you’re printing with higher temperature material it might not be an issue.
I’ve made it out of PETG so a hot summer day shouldn’t be an issue.
Don’t count on it. On really hot days the interior of a car sitting under the sun can reach petg’s glass transition temp. I’ve had petg prints, also attached to the visor as it happens, soften up and deform in my car.
I’ve also printed a few thingies for the car and my experience is, PLA deforms on the first hot day and you can throw it out. PETG lasted 2-3 years for me until it became brittle and broke.
Slick! I occasionally drive my beat up old 2000 Mazda pickup and it could use something like this!
Literally head up display
Didnt knew they still drive 2001 Yaris in Atlantis.
