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Gary Lewis

Re: Classic Dash - Dash Panel

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The coffee maker was a Keurig and we sat it in the seat when we brewed coffee at 13,000 feet in Colorado last year. Was a nice, brisk day and the coffee sure tasted good sitting on the tailgate.

The ticker bit would be fairly easy as there are lots of OBD-II reader sketches for Arduinos. But there are hundreds of parameters that can be read, including inlet air temp to the EFI system, engine coolant temp, and lots of info from the EFI system. So figuring out what to display and controlling when to display it might be a challenge. However, it is easy to set up BT from the Arduino to a phone and then control it via the phone. Or, for that matter, just send the info to the phone for display purposes.

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Dad's: '81 F150 Ranger XLT 4x4: Down for restomod: Full-roller "stroked 351M" w/Trick Flow heads & intake, EEC-V SEFI/E4OD/3.50 gears w/Kevlar clutches
Blue: 2015 F150 Platinum 4x4 SuperCrew wearing Blue Jeans & sporting a 3.5L EB & Max Tow
Big Blue: 1985 F250HD 4x4: 460/ZF5/3.55's, D60 w/Ox locker & 10.25 Sterling/Trutrac, Blue Top & Borgeson, & EEC-V MAF/SEFI

BigBrother-84

Re: Classic Dash - Dash Panel

Gary,
What about Windshield Projected Active Display?

Kind of:

Jeff / 1984 F350 Crew Cab 4x4/5.8L w351 4V/ T18/ D50 4.10 front/ 8' bed.
Restored 2019-2022.
Nicknamed «Big Brother 1984», due to its soooo-looong shape & nod to George Orwell's 1984 famous novel.

Gary Lewis

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I wouldn't like that thing, probably the projector, on top of the dash. I'm happy with the 747 look.

The datalogging on this computer will probably go away when I'm through tuning the EFI. In fact, as I think about it, I'd like to have an app on my iPhone that connects to the ECU and displays various things, so I think I'll start a thread about that...

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BigBrother-84

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I was joking, but I realize this could be potentially interesting.
If such projector can act as a projector, meaning display any data from video input…. Why not access every data we want?

https://www.caraudionow.com/best-head-up-displays/

Jeff / 1984 F350 Crew Cab 4x4/5.8L w351 4V/ T18/ D50 4.10 front/ 8' bed.
Restored 2019-2022.
Nicknamed «Big Brother 1984», due to its soooo-looong shape & nod to George Orwell's 1984 famous novel.

Gary Lewis

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There's not much data to project on most Bullnose trucks. Even the ones with EFI don't have a nice interface from which to pull data. It wasn't until about '94 that some Ford vehicles started getting the first OBD-II connectors, which have standardized polling. Before that it was all proprietary and there's very little in the way of scanners to get info from them.

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BigBrother-84

Re: Classic Dash - Dash Panel

Gary Lewis wrote

There's not much data to project on most Bullnose trucks.

Just enough to look as a 747 cockpit?

Jeff / 1984 F350 Crew Cab 4x4/5.8L w351 4V/ T18/ D50 4.10 front/ 8' bed.
Restored 2019-2022.
Nicknamed «Big Brother 1984», due to its soooo-looong shape & nod to George Orwell's 1984 famous novel.