DIY Car Nearside Camera

This camera is used to see nearside (Passenger side) view of a car while driving. Generally car learners feel fear to drive in traffic particularly on small roads. They feel fear of dashing other vehicles or people walking by the side. Until one gets experience, learner cannot assume the gap between his car and nearside objects.

I built this one for my father. My father used to drive in village roads. Recently we shifted to city. Here all the time roads are full of traffic. That's why my father afraid to drive on the busy roads. After installing this camera it became easy for him to drive.

In this project I used rear view camera. Because of reverse camera, image is flipped. I do not know how to flip the image in monitor. To rectify the problem I used mirror. Help in flipping the image in monitor is welcome so that we can avoid the steps from two to eight. It will be helpful while travelling in mountain roads, off-roads etc. I hope all the car learners may use and enjoy this project.

1. Car rear view camera with monitor

2. Mirror

3. MDF board

4. Double sided tape

5. Needles

I hot glued the mirror with an angle of 90 degrees. Disadvantage is that we cannot close the mirror. It may be broken. Later I modified this.

Disassemble the monitor.

Take a small piece of paper and make template so that it exactly fits to the monitor. Cut MDF with the help of paper template.

• Cut the top plastic piece.
• Drill holes on both sides of the MDF and monitor.
• Insert needles on both sides.

Paint MDF and attach the mirror with hot glue.

Take the plastic strip that we previously cut from the monitor. Make 2pcs of 4cm each. Drill holes and attach as shown in pictures. Assemble the monitor.

• Remove the top piece from the stand that showed in the picture.
• Attach the stand piece to small piece of MDF with the help of screw and hot glue and paint it.
• Apply 2 sided tape to the Base.

Drill a hole to insert the camera very carefully otherwise rainwater may flow inside and damage the wiring and car. Apply hot glue around camera to prevent water leakage.