I'd thought about lots of different avenues... The reason I went with
the android is the multifunctionality included with the devices: GPS,
Internet, Music player, dashboard video camera, etc.

There are also different displays that do all of the obdII stuff but
torque is a pretty slick interface for $9 (or something like that).

Here's a youtube of it in action (the 8min mark is where things start
happening):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay-ZvTn3fLo

Cheers,
Harry

On 05/21/2012 09:18 AM, Tom Hargrave wrote:
> I don't think the engine would care. How about using a PIC chip to process
> everything?
>
> Thanks, Tom Hargrave
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> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
> Harry Hoffman
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 8:09 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Virtualizing gauges on OBDII equipped vanagons
>
> Hi All,
>
> So, after my "upgrade" to the bostig conversion I've been toying around with
> replacing all of the analog gauges with a digital counterpart.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has gone this route? I'm going to leave all of the
> analog gauges as I can't find a screen to fit nicely in that part of the
> dash.
>
> My plan goes loosely like this:
>
> Get a ODBII bluetooth device reader to gather stats from the engines CPU.
>
> Have a android tablet (or phone) that has bluetooth, and GPS and install the
> Android App Torque to read and display the various gauges that I want to
> recreate.
>
> Right now I can display (in dial format) RPMs, Speed, Coolant Temp.
>
> Also, in needle graph I can display O2 info, and Fuel rail stats.
>
> Any of the wiser list members have thoughts about this? Too taxing for the
> engine? Obviously I will have a fallback of all of the original gauges
> should the tablet/phone/bluetooth connector fail.
>
> Cheers,
> Harry
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