Re: LCD Dash: Can It Be Done??

[Christopher Mende <csmende@neubayern.net>]

Fine,

So stick with your analog gauges and let someone else worry about it!
Nothing like a good dose of idea stifling to get the day going, eh?

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Brad Sheridan wrote:

|You've obviously never done any real electronics design work. It would be a
|very big task, and very expensive, as custom LCD displays aren't cheap,
|you're looking at a few thousand US$ just for the LCD display, no driver
|chips or anything. Making it just work the bar graph tach and speedo, with
|a few numeric displays for sensors, wouldn't be too difficult to do in
|programming. But thats only if you've done this before(I have, on a serial
|LCD display). Anything more complicated, and the programming complexity
|will jump up exponentially. But the scope of the project is very big, and
|if you don't have microcontroller(not microprocessor) programming
|experience, forget about it. If you want to make something that looked and
|functioned like it was built by a second grader, that would be easy. But to
|design a somewhat attractive piece that worked better than the stock
|system, you're talking about serious work.
|
|Brad


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