So, I'm a software engineer by trade but I play with a lot of electronics, tune, attempt reversing engineering (for fun and disma lol) embedded devices... I want to swap a dope old retro cluster in my dash. I figure with all that real estate sitting across the dash that doing something custom would be really cool and I just got the time to do it at least coming up in the future. So like the open Real estate over on the passenger side I was thinking about putting my touch screens or at least LCD screens behind the plastic of the dash for infotainment or just more information basically like extend the DIC all the way across the dash. I'm not sure exactly how I'm doing it but I'm going to start with the gauge cluster first. Here a couple of examples of what I've seen and you know basically what I'd like to do. I figure intercepting the signal coming from the harness and doing whatever conversion would be needed using an Arduino or equivalent would probably suit its purpose so I can convert the voltage and scale it to whatever old school cluster is needed and it's voltage requirements for the signal and stuff like that the power going to the cluster I'm not really worried about cuz that's kind of easy to take care of it it's more the voltage requirements for the signal. I guess my big question is am I right in thinking that I could use like an Arduino or two for signal conversion and scaling from one case cluster to another as long as I can get the thing to light up right? Like I'm even thinking about building like an actual like lcd-style digital dash maybe running like an embedded version of Android or something like that I'm on a raspberry pi but just something that will you know boot up quick obviously it wouldn't be street legal but you know it would still be cool but yeah I'm just curious if anybody else has looked at something like this or if anybody else has done it or if there any forms kind of dedicated to running these types of conversions.

 

You may be interested in contributing to this project: HonDash | Dashboard for Hondata K-Pro & S300 ECUs

I would love to spend some time making it more visually appealing (and need to find an affordable sunlight readable 7" screen), but it's a pretty good start.