A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W plugged into a glovebox USB port now automatically backs up a supported electric car's onboard camera footage to a NAS. The project, called Glovebox and built by Sasha, requires only flashing the software to the Pi. No cloud accounts, no third-party servers: all data stays on the LAN unless the user explicitly configures otherwise.
The software handles the full backup lifecycle. It tracks which files are already synced, resumes interrupted transfers if the car drives off mid-backup, and deletes local copies from the car's internal storage once files are confirmed on the NAS. It supports multiple NAS protocols and is controllable from a smartphone. A separate package covers Raspberry Pi models beyond the Zero 2 W.
The hard constraint: this works on one specific electric car. That limitation is exactly why the GitHub repository is worth reading even if you own something else. Sasha's work maps out how to interrogate a locked consumer vehicle's USB interface and file system, which is the harder problem. The car-as-game-controller hack from 2017 started the same way.
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