Car telemetry

Already done but a nice exercise involving mechanics, electronics and quite some computing: Equip a car with sensors more or less everywhere and implement a (cheap!) telemetry logging system.

Current systems costs tens of thousand dollars, euros and pounds sterling so a cheap system costing less than €1000 would probably be interesting.

Sensors and gadgets to implement:

• Position (GPS)
• Accelleration (3 axis)
• Gyros (2 axis)
• Pressure (f.e. brake pedal)
• Switches (clutch, gear changes)
• Rotation (wheelspin, steering)
• Stretch (wheel travel)
• Temperature (water, oil, exhaust, tires, brakes)
• Integration with OBDII, MegaJolt and TEC ECUs
• LCD Display (for timing and so on)
• Distance (body roll or ride height)
• Video and audio feed
• Data transfer to pit lane (WiFi, XBee or similar)
  

The system must be fairly rugged and simple to use