Welcome to the Purplemeanie blog of our Caterham journey. We hope you enjoy our trials and tribulations during and after the build. Please leave us a comment and tell us what you think.
Where to Start
The latest project from the Purplemeanie HQ is to have a go at converting a Seven to be an electric vehicle (EV). Follow the project here.
For my most popular video take a look at “Build a Caterham 420R in 30 minutes“
For more reading…
- If you want join us on the journey from the beginning then take a look at this post: Build Blog Index
- If you’d like to see a bit about us then please take a look at our About page.
- If you just want to skip to the latest news then take a look at the Blog.
- We’ve also put a Gallery together if that’s your thing.
- If videos are your thing then take a look at what we’ve posted to YouTube: YouTube Videos
- If my ramblings aren’t enough for you then you can find a whole different bunch of other blogs in this post here.
- … and some might like to jump to my tools and trinkets here.
Latest Posts
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GVRET and BDC668 Disectors for Wireshark
Post Views: 8 This is a quick post about another non-quick rabbit hole. As part of my Project sEVen EV conversion, I’ve been playing about with CANBuses a lot. And in the previous post I talked about getting a CANBus sniffer working on an Adafruit ESP32-S3 TFT board, with some graphics. Well towards then end…
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ESP32RET on an Adafruit ESP32-S3 TFT
Post Views: 7 Well, this was another one of those rabbit hole projects. I’d got myself a home grown CANbus sniffer that talked in the Lawicel format to SavvyCan and allowed me to sniff CANbus data reasonably reliably. BUT, I had to be connected to the sniffer over a serial interface and that was becoming…
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Debugging the ZombieVerter WebInterface
Post Views: 28 This post is going to be: I’ll probably do a video about all of this soon, because there’s way more to see than I can realistically add as images to this post. The link to the video will appear here if I get around to it. But if you’re in the market…
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Project sEVen pt8: Custom Gearbox Assembly – YOUTUBE VIDEO
Post Views: 44 Well that didn’t go quite to plan. I was hoping to take just a couple of days on this video, but in the end it was 10 or so. And therefore little progress on the actual EV project… Grrr! I started out with one intention but then realised the video didn’t make…
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Project sEven pt7 : Q&A and Weekly Updates
Post Views: 33 Quick update video this week. I picked a few of the questions from the last YouTube video and give a quick update on what I’ve been up to this week. Here’s the chapter list: 00:26 – Quick Project Recap 00:50 – Q&A – Mission Statement 01:16 – Is it Achievable 01:37 –…
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Caterham SV Prop-Shaft Scan
Post Views: 30 The next in the list of things I’ve scanned is the prop-shaft from a Caterham Seven SV. It’s taken me a couple of years to get around to extracting this from the EV project car, but I need a model now to verify the CAD for the gearbox that’s being designed.
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Putting the EV in Seven – Two Year Mega Update Video
Post Views: 109 Well… I finally got to the point where I realized I wasn’t going to be able to upload all the videos I’d wanted to. For the whole of my Putting the EV in Seven project, I’ve been taking video and pictures in order to put together a series of progress videos for…
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Caterham 5/6 Speed Gearbox Mount Scan
Post Views: 48 As part of my Putting The EV in Seven project I needed to have a good model of the gearbox mount that Caterham used on their 5/6 speed installations. I had a partial scan of the mount with it in the car but that wasn’t going to be good enough for my…