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Automotive gauge cluster

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Hey not sure where to post this but o well. I have a project car im building and im looking to covert my cluster into a digital touch screen cluster.  I was going to use a tablet at first but single boards caught my eye. I have built a few desktop computers but never a single board. Their are a few people using the pi but im looking to go a diff route. I want something that is quadcore, has built in gps, has a way to connect rs232 and can run Android operating system. Any suggestions? And what all would i need? Power supply, cable, a good touch screen. And where do i get all these things lol

  • in reply to michaelkellett

    Yes for a street driven car. Its an older car so their wont be any interference with drivetrain. Im using an after market engine management system and it connects via rs232 and the display will be used to show engine data only through a android app called shadowdash. People are using tablets to do this via rs232 to Bluetooth

  • You should post this as a discussion - there is a group for single board computers.

     

    Are you planning to install this in a car that goes on the public roads  with a human inside it ?

     

    If so then safety issues will dominate. I can't think off hand of a suitable board - any rational design separates the GPS, key instruments like speedo and glam features. Android is not suitable for safety critical applications. Clusters usually pick up info from CAN buses and great care should be taken to ensure that there is no chance of bad code in the cluster messing with the drive train.  (GM can get this wrong !!!!).

     

    What do you need the RS232 for ?

     

    MK