I Built a Real-Time Tire Temp Monitoring System for Under $80 a corner!

🔥 DIY ESP32 Thermal Tire Temperature Monitoring System 🔥 What if you could see exactly what your tires are doing while you're driving? In this video I build a real-time thermal tire temperature monitoring system using ESP32 microcontrollers, ESP-NOW wireless communication, and thermal cameras mounted inside the wheel wells. The system continuously measures tire temperatures across the tread and displays the results live on a custom dashboard inside the car. Unlike traditional tire pyrometers that only provide data after a session, this setup lets you see tire temperatures in real time while driving, helping identify: ✅ Uneven tire loading ✅ Camber issues ✅ Pressure problems ✅ Overheating shoulders ✅ Track setup changes ✅ Driving technique improvements The entire system was designed to be affordable, DIY-friendly, and fully open source. 0:00 Intro 0:19 Why do you need to know your tire temps? 1:05 Why did I make this? 4:06 Hardware used 5:35 Putting it all together 12:45 The code and loading the esp32 with it 25:20 Gotcha's for mount/calibration 28:52 Mounting the camera example 30:15 Calibration mode! 33:07 Realtime tire temp reading! 34:38 Outro and Thanks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ PROJECT LINKS 💾 Source Code:https://github.com/traviscea/DIY-ESP3... 📋 Bill of Materials: Disclaimer: Some of the links below are affiliate links, which means I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Esp32 Lites with jst connector(4 pack) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZP3GXT7?... Thermal Camera(MLX90640) x4 needed https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZKK8QWY?... Other Thermal Camera link if first is sold out https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F312VWW3?... 2000mah battery 4 pack https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR9GH966?... Rocker switches 10pk https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S2QJKTX?... Usb extension cable x4 needed https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BYRH9DR?... 3d print file for mount https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aso5... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ SYSTEM FEATURES • Real-time tire temperature monitoring• Wireless ESP-NOW communication• Custom ESP32 dashboard display• Live heat-map visualization• Multi-zone tire analysis• Front and rear tire monitoring• Low-cost DIY design• Open-source firmware ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏁 WHY TIRE TEMPERATURE MATTERS Tire temperature is one of the most important indicators of vehicle setup and grip. By monitoring temperatures across the inside, center, and outside of the tire, you can quickly identify: • Incorrect tire pressure• Excessive camber• Insufficient camber• Suspension setup issues• Driving style problems• Tire performance limitations Professional motorsport teams rely heavily on tire temperature data, and now you can build your own system for a fraction of the cost. Similar systems have been used in amateur and professional motorsports to analyze tire loading and setup changes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📈 FUTURE UPDATES Planned features include: • CAN bus integration• Data logging• Session playback• Cloud telemetry• GPS overlays• Predictive tire modeling• Additional sensor support ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👍 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL If you enjoyed this project: • Like the video• Subscribe for more DIY automotive tech• Leave your questions in the comments• Share the project with fellow enthusiasts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Github Repos: https://github.com/traviscea/ Discord:   / discord   Instagram:   / travis.cea