RE: Automotive gauge cluster

ib1yysguy — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 03:17:37 GMT

I have a very similar problem with my TR6 rebuild. It's 41 years old, so all the engine monitoring I'm building myself. The chip I've landed on is a Particle Electron because it runs reliable off of C++. I'm making my own gauges and will be patenting them. There will be three or four small readouts for engine-critical data, some lights, electronic voice (speaker-dependent) recognition to recognize only my voice and allow me to start the car with a button. I can even configure it to use a couple of Photons as slave devices to run the gauges independently.

RE: Automotive gauge cluster

michaelkellett — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:12:56 GMT

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 ?