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> Android or iPad dash in Subie Conversion?
CptTripps
post 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?


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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
r_towle   Android.... More available apps and easier to get...   Sep 3 2013, 08:48 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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