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:
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
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.