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README and DESIGN: carputer's hardware lineage, and two stale lines - #37

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Follows the operator's refinement of the README review, relayed by the watchman.

  • README Status: CarChomp is a rewrite of carputer, which ran on a Raspberry Pi with a GPS module and an RTL-SDR. The rewrite's own hardware runs come next, on the reTerminal. The carputer fact is the operator's account, as stakeholder; it isn't from any test in this repo. stakeholder.md backs the hardware the capstone was built for: the feature list asks for RTL-SDR integration, and the Hardware section provides a Pi 4, a touch screen and a GPS module.
  • DESIGN.md, order of work:
    • Item 5 said "update upload untested on hardware". That's stale since CHOMP-5: it has run once on a reTerminal.
    • Item 9 left per-track colours unstruck, though they're built and CHOMP-9 is verified.

Checked for "never" or "hasn't met" about hardware in README, DESIGN.md and ROADMAP.md, and none remains. The remaining "untested on hardware" and "Needs hardware" notes are about this rewrite's own code and are still true, so I left them. That includes README's --gps/--radio paragraph and DESIGN items 3, 7, 8, 10 and 12.

Proposed repository description, for the operator to set: "Raspberry Pi car computer: drive tracking with SmartBeaconing, APRS alerts over RTL-SDR, offline maps, a touchscreen and web UI. Rust + PostGIS + Svelte. A rewrite of carputer, built on simulators; its own hardware runs next." I left out "proven in the car", because the account I have is that carputer ran on a Pi with that hardware, not that it was tested in a car.

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The Status section says CarChomp rewrites carputer, which ran on a Pi with
a GPS module and an RTL-SDR, and that the rewrite's own hardware runs come
next. DESIGN.md's order of work notes the update upload has run on a
reTerminal, and strikes per-track colours, which are built.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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