Aaron's Custom ST16x Econometer

I thought about it, but then realised I hate touch screens in cars.
A detached, easily accessible control scheme is much better. The joystick will be separate from the screen and you can mount it wherever you want, behind steering wheel etc.

 

There hasn't been much progress that you can actually see in the last month, but that's because I've been writing a graphics driver from scratch for the LCD
There's a few different ones around for the specific LCD, but they either didn't work for me or didn't do all the things I needed so I decided to just write my own.

I got a new job recently so I don't have as much free time to work on it as I did before, but rest assured I'm working on it!

So far I have the main icon grid coded up and the spaces for the icons defined and ready for use.

The next proper update I do will be a pretty big one, definitely some cool pictures to come

 

I'll just leave this here

As you can see I've almost finished the custom 7x3 font and I'm still working on icons.

As of now I can draw literally anything I want to the screen and I have separate functions for writing text and drawing predefined images.

Now that I've got the pain in the ass bit out of the way I'm really excited to start the fun stuff

As always, suggestions and comments are very welcome!

 

Thanks guys

I know I've said this before, but progress should be a lot faster now, especially since the graphics driver is finished

 

I was wondering when you would show up!

I can't wait to hook it up to my celi and play with it too, I love new toys!

I'm not forgetting about anything, I have a nice big list

 

It's funny you mention company shares, I've actually thought about what I'd do if my little gadgets take off. A dream of mine is to own and run a performance garage, but if I also build custom gauges, dash clusters etc. I could have "Aaron's Automotive Everything" The name sounds a bit cheesy, like "Supercheap Auto", but I can work on that lol

I couldn't bring myself to ever charge for a piece of software though, to me it's like charging people to be able to flush the toilet they just bought!

 

Dunce: A person incapable of learning. I'd like to think I'm the complete opposite lol

My gadget has already evolved to be for pretty much any car, the only limitation is it has to be an EFI engine. Millions sounds very nice :drool I could finally buy a GT-Four!

I was thinking that the text was a little too small to be useful, I think I'll have a whole bunch of display options in the settings so people can choose between the display I'm showing now and a whole bunch of other setups. The scrolling idea is brilliant, I was already planning on having notifications/alarms for the sensors so you don't have to worry about missing a low/high reading.

So much more to think about It's exciting that I might just be able to make a bunch of money off of my hobby! The only problem I have is manufacturing plastic parts, it could be quite expensive if it's not done in bulk but I guess you only get out what you put in.

I don't think I'd trust people with having DIY adjustable tuning though, unless I made it idiot-proof lol there's just too many things that can go wrong when someone doesn't know what they're doing and then I could get the blame. The toaster company is at fault for not telling people not to insert knives into the bread slots kind of thing D:

Thanks heaps for your input, I have much to ponder