Pimping my ride with MicroPython by Glenn Ramsey

Recorded at Kiwi PyCon 2025 - https://kiwipycon.nz/ Under duress from some of my mates I recently bought a bush truck. It has a rear mounted radiator and a couple of manually switched radiator fans that need to be operated based on the temperature gauge reading. It turns out that I am only barely capable of monitoring the gauge while keeping the vehicle pointed in the right direction so I decided to automate it. Despite there being a trivially easy and robust off-the-shelf way to do this I decided to use a microcontroller running MicroPython instead, because ... why not? This talk will describe the design, construction, coding, and performance of the system using several different control strategies. These videos are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Recorded and produced by KIT LTD : https://www.linkedin.com/company/kitltdnz/