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| CptTripps |
 Sep 3 2013, 07:55 AM
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::: Warning...purists may not like this idea :::
Riding around in a friend's Tesla-S this weekend got me thinking. (Dangerous...for sure.) It dawned on me last night that if I'm doing a Subaru conversion with the stock ECU, that I'll have an ODB2 port that I can interface with. So a fully digital dashboard is not only probable...it's highly possible. I probably have a dozen iPads and Android tablets in a drawer at work that I'm not using. Why not make them the gauges and entertainment? Now I realize that screen glare in a 914 will be an issue...especially with the top down, but this could be pretty damn cool. Here are a few screen-shots that I found from different apps. DashCommand looks like it'd be pretty cool installed in the center cluster. On a 7" Android tablet, it would mount in nicely. JDash looks like it'd need a proper computer running Linux to boot up and run it. I could do that with a RaspberryPi and have something set up real quickly. Heck...a couple of different rPi boxes and you'd be in business for a lot of different things. (dashcams, rear-view, etc.) So am I crazy, or could this be cool? Attached image(s)   
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| r_towle |
Sep 3 2013, 08:48 AM
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Custom Member Group: Members Posts: 24,688 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Taxachusetts Member No.: 124 Region Association: North East States 
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Android....
More available apps and easier to get what you want if you want custom apps. Please details what you do and how... Its on my list. There are "car computers" out there that are basically ruggedized cases with everything rubber mounted and SSD drives. If you go that route, the screen can be anything. Bentley just put a 17 inch screen in the latest car... rich |
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CptTripps Android or iPad dash in Subie Conversion? Sep 3 2013, 07:55 AM
Sleepin Screen glare could be taken care of with a decent ... Sep 3 2013, 08:08 AM CptTripps Yeah, I'm also thinking that the tablet in the... Sep 3 2013, 08:15 AM BIGKAT_83 Use a shadow dash using megasquirt. It operates wi... Sep 3 2013, 08:47 AM
ericoneal I am doing this with MSDroid and an old Galaxy Tab... Sep 3 2013, 09:03 AM CptTripps Here's the Tesla-S dash that got me thinking. ... Sep 3 2013, 08:53 AM pcar916 It'll be interesting to find out whether the P... Sep 3 2013, 09:25 AM CptTripps This is just a project I'm thinking of for the... Sep 3 2013, 09:33 AM kg6dxn Seems cool but you might run out of gas. I've ... Sep 3 2013, 02:06 PM CptTripps
Seems cool but you might run out of gas. I've... Sep 3 2013, 06:52 PM r_towle There are a few vendors that sell Bluetooth system... Sep 3 2013, 02:24 PM r_towle It's all voltage at the end of the day, so get... Sep 3 2013, 08:29 PM CptTripps
It's all voltage at the end of the day, so ge... Sep 4 2013, 06:57 AM Millerwelds http://914electric.wordpress.com/
Scroll way dow... Sep 4 2013, 05:53 PM Andyrew Torque app is pretty popular and I hear it constan... Sep 3 2013, 11:37 PM r_towle let me know if you find an interface that will do ... Sep 4 2013, 06:35 PM bulitt cool project. I had several vettes with the heads... Sep 4 2013, 07:20 PM |
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