From Sunswift Open Source: The Open Solar Car Project

Sunswift is a full-scale, multi-disciplinary, student-led solar racing team. Volunteers from faculties all over the University of New South Wales offer their time and skills to design, build and race a state-of-the-art solar-powered car. For more information, please visit http://www.sunswift.com

Open Solar Car

Solar car teams conduct engineering at the very highest levels. While the competition is fierce, there is a vibrant community and an atmosphere of sharing/camaraderie amongst the teams. By making our designs available, teams and individuals, now and in the future, can continue to improve the state-of-the-art.

These projects are released open-source under a GPL, or TAPR open hardware license. These licenses mean that you're free to download, modify and use these designs. There are some simple limitations (these are our interpretation of the license, and the license is the definitive reference for your rights): if you choose to distribute your design or the product of your design, it must also be licensed in the same way, and if you choose to distribute your product, you must make available your source code.

Solar car teams would rarely distribute their code or products, but our intent is that teams would consider a major solar car race to be a distribution. In other words, if you use this code, you can race with it, but you then need to release your modifications for incorporation back into these repositories.

For queries, clarifications, discussion of projects, etc, please email the open solar car google group.

Projects

We will be progressively releasing several of our more developed systems. Currently released are:

	UNSW Maximum Power Point Tracker		Tyre Pressure Monitoring System

Mailing lists

The following google groups relate to the Open Solarcar project and resource:

• OpenSolarcar --- announcements, discussion (technical and non-technical), questions and troubleshooting.
• OpenSolarcar_WikiChange --- Notification of changes to the wiki.

Hosting repositories

Generally these will be set up and managed by teams or individuals. We recommend Google Code.

• Sunswift

Subversion Repository

The subversion repository for most Open Solar Car projects is hosted by Google Code. Thanks!

To check out (anonymously) the entire repository from any of these projects, you can execute the command:

svn checkout http://sunswift.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ sunswift-read-only

This would get a copy of the sunswift repository in a read-only directory.