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The event was a success, and although we didn't have nearly the viewer count we hoped for we still raised over $1,500 for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. A number of very interesting things happened during the drive around autopilot that are worth recording and comparing against next...

Post mortem: The event was a success, raising $1.5k during the (largely unpublicized) drive. We're still working on making a highlight video. I encountered some ground loop issues I encountered when powering the GoPro off the USB port on the car but having the HDMI go into a laptop that also...

I converted to USD first on an exchange and deposited the funds into my checking account so I could write a cashier's check for the full amount above and beyond the deposit that was on my credit card but the total amount of BTC I had to sell based on the prices at the time was around 7 BTC (not...

Awesome, thanks! I'm exicted. I'm unfortunately running out of time so I'll probably just try hitting people up on Twitter. If anyone else reading this has ideas let me know. Thanks!

As I mentioned over in the Desert Tesla Charity Drive May 4th, livestream free to watch at TAS.Bot thread I am doing a free to watch charity event May 4th at TAS.Bot where I'm driving my Model X 100D (prepaid FSD) from Petaluma, CA to Salt Lake City, UT using autopilot the entire way, allowing...

Greetings! I'm announcing an inaugural event that's hard to explain, but here's a video that attempts to do so as cheesy as possible: Here's a blurb summary: Make dwangoAC melt or TheAxeMan freeze using Crowd Control to hack the comfort features of a Tesla Model X 100D during a 14+ hour...

The science behind signal boosting works, if you do it right. First, here's a picture: The external antenna is above the car with a clear view of the horizon in all directions, and is powered. The internal antenna is a small omnidirecitonal antenna with a range of about a meter. If you get...

OK, the full rehearsal went flawlessly. We were able to get the overall load of all devices combined on the inverter down to roughly 100 watts, with other peripherals only adding about an additional 20 watts max. This is far lower than my worst-case scenario planning. The max I pushed the...

I came to the same conclusion that the wire was too thin, so today (prior to reading your message) I replaced it with 12 gauge wire and built my own wiring harness with a new 30a fuse holder and ran it into the car so the inverter can rest under the passenger seat which reduced the cable length...

So I picked up a screwdown connector with a fuse holder and it looks good: And here's how the wire is snaked around the firewall: Unfortunately, this didn't quite work out - if the laptop battery was charging at the same time the laptop was open it was drawing over 100 watts on the...

Well, the closest I found was this thread: Routing Cables Through the Firewall That could work for small gauge, it's not "through" the firewall so much as around it though because it loops outside the car. I tried it and got a thin 12v designed wire through designed for solar panels but I saw...

I'm considering tapping to the 12v lead at the fuse box instead of the spare 12v to get a more reliable connection point. This would allow the 450 watt inverter to shoulder the bulk of the burden, and I have decent 12v cables with coupling locations, designed for solar panel installations...

In some ways, having things spread out reduces wiring troubles - the back 12v serves the sound board and the signal booster which are in the back, laptops in the middle and one in the front right, phones in the center. I don't think having a single entry point for power is going to make cabling...

So I'm heading down the path of attempting to reduce my power budget by as much as possible. I've managed to make some headway on switching to a 65 watt main laptop and an older 85 watt secondary laptop (each with their own streams on separate networks). Regarding shunting power, I wouldn't be...

You're definitely not wrong, although if I can confirm that the cigarette lighter aux 12v power ports and the spare 12v connector are on separate fuses it may be enough if I spread out the load such that nothing exceeds 100w. So about that - I have a 450 watt inverter that on its own could...

Greetings, TL;DR: What is the maximum power draw of both 12v power ports simultaneously? I need a *lot* of power for 14+ hours and I need to work out a sane power budget given the amount of equipment I need to power during that time. During a May 4th event I'm calling Desert Tesla Charity...

Thanks! It will be a fantastic opportunity to show people how autopilot *really* works, and what a long distance journey can look like. Heh, I was given some Shibecoin which collapsed before I could do anything, but my Etherium did well too and helped contribute a bit to paying the tax bill the...

Hi, I'm dwangoAC and I've been meaning to join since I purchased my Model X 100D in December 2017. This is just a quick intro to say that yes, I really did sell 7.5 BTC at the height of the bubble which was enough to fully cover my entire purchase. (The tax implications of selling Bitcoin...