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Final boards (I hope) are on the way to me now. Hope to get a few built in the next couple of weeks.

Any updates on a ETA and Price ????

Building up 4 units at the moment to work out how long they take to assemble, price will be determined once they are built. Will order more boards once these are sold though

VL400 wrote:Building up 4 units at the moment to work out how long they take to assemble, price will be determined once they are built. Will order more boards once these are sold though

If you need any help churning out board assembly, let me know - I'm an accomplished electronics tech with quite a bit of soldering experience if that is any help to you.

Cheers,

Andrew.

Thanks, will see how it goes

I'll have to go back through this thread, but is is almost exactly what I was going to start building for myself. I have a TunerViewII currently, but the guy that makes them is not being so supportive of the GM and Ford side, so I'm looking at other ways to get what I want out of a display.

I was planning to start with an Arduino, and get the basics working, then add features as I was able to, and my ultimate plan was to end up with a display that would also log to an SD card.

Depending on price I'd be interested in getting one of these, if it will work with USDM code, which it sounds like it should.

Will this support multiple displays? That is one reason I was looking at starting with an Arduino, I have seen up to 4 2x24 displays connected to one Arduino. I was hoping to be able to end up with 2 or 3 4x24 or 4x16 displays in the end, using "large digits" on a couple of the slave displays.

Anyway to remote mount the SD card slot? Once I get a display that does what I want, I want to mount the display in the gauge cluster (probably replace my tach, which is another reason to need multiple displays), and then have the SD card slot either in the bottom of that cluster/gauge or somewhere easily accessible.

Personally, I'm not interested in flashing the ECM through the dispaly, while it sounds like a cool feature, I don't know if it would work with an Ostrich 2.0 or not, and I usually prefer to tune on my laptop, in real time, anyway.

Looks good, I'll go back through and read for details since some of my other questions might have been answered already.

This one will only support one display. I am not using an I2C display, its just a regular 4 x 20 parallel display. I guess you could remote mount the SD slot, but would take some hacking.

But Id say your prob better off making a totally custom setup to replace the dash, the logger would need some pretty big changes to the hardware and firmware. Depending on the features you want to implement I would use one of the larger Arduino's, originally I started with a atMega328 based board but the FAT libraries take a fair bit of memory. It had enough for the basics but soon ran out.

This is possibly the longest project in history, but have totally redesigned the logger to be much easier to assemble and hopefully get a few more made. The original took far too long to build up and had many fiddly parts. Also changed a few things, it still logs to to an SD card in XDL format and uses ADX files for config but the main changes are..

* Aluminium Case
* Graphic LCD
* Rotary encoder (press to select)
* Buzzer
* 4 x Analog Inputs
* 2 x Digital Inputs

droooooooooooool

Looking very nice indeed!

Andrew.