Digital Dash update for my MX5 Miata

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After a painful 18 month break in the project after a discovering a communication issue on the i2C causing both Arduinos to crash, and spending over 50 hours trying to troubleshoot software. I came back to revisit the project this week (May 2021) and found out the cause of the issues were from an 'over promised, under delivered' weak powersupply. After beefing it up, the project is again, ALIVE! It was incredibly difficult to walk away from it back in November 2019, over 500 hours put into the cluster project between then and July 2019 and it was coming along really well. (3000hrs in the touchscreen from 2016-2019.) Unfortunately in the software troubleshooting, a lot of code was reversed and then removed, so my goal for the coming weeks is to reunderstand what i've got done and build it back up.
The touch screen has well over 10,000 lines of code, in a 300kb sketch. The cluster sketch is also nearly 300kb in size due to the bitmapped graphics saved internally (needed for fast load time of images).

I have now put together this 5 min clip showing *SOME* of the features that were done on this project. I didnt realise that filming it alone was 5 minutes, and coming to realise that doing a voice over dialog for this would have expanded this out to well over 15 min. So, you'll need to pause and re-watch bits. I know the text is on there very briefly. But the pause button is your friend. :-)

The sound track is:
Djuma SoundSystem - Les Djinns

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The world demands that you start selling kits for the awesome stuff you're teasing us with! 💸💸💸

bragefjrvik

Honestly just give me a parts list you used and let me buy the software when it's done, this is cool as hell

greyman

well until 2027 I well still be here : "shut up and take my money"

Skrrr_kls

Brilliant work, please put together a kit ❤❤

arf

When I shut off the AC...

'Transfer all power from life support to the engine!'

ErokCherokee

Been involved in GUIs using the Arduino platform for a little while. Major respect for your project, I know just how tedious it would have been! Keep up the good work 💪

mickthemechanic

Nice... Love the Star Trek sound effects.

A.Miata.Enthusiast

this is amazing, I think everyone can relate to the reluctance to walk away from a project that is taking too much time, I'm glad you were able to revisit it and figure out the issue.

INFIDELicious

Stumbled across this project after thinking about doing something similar. Sensei, you have only inspired me and frustrated me all at the same time as I couldn't envision half of what you thought of. Absolutely amazing work.

brianfaherty

You added LCARS and sound effects to a Miata... Brilliant

johngonzalez

I want to comment that, while I have seen other similar projects like this, this one has just the PERFECT vibe, style, and feel to it.

That modernized 80s style with things dynamically changing and adjustable. Along with Different modes that change things around. I just love it. It's so awesome.

ChargedTTq

Absolutely epic! Love the Star Trek inspiration!

Fpvpilot

This is magical. I am another who will throw money your way for a licence to use the code.
Wow.
There is so much good work in this.
Excellent UI behaviours.
Looking forward to more updates as they come.

thecatofnineswords

This project was and continues to be an absolute inspiration. I won’t ask you to carry on with it against your judgement, but I will hope your judgement encourages you to continue working on it!

ChrisDRimmer

This is so awesome and I've been eagerly waiting for an update on this. I understand it take a tremendous amount of time and commend you on the efforts so far. You inspired me late last year to do something similar (but nowhere near as cool as yours) for my e36 compact. I'm using two Arduinos and 3 OLED screens to basically replace my fuel gauge, temp gauge and RPM gauge and to enhance them to give fuel range and actual temp. Thank you for inspiring me! Cheers, Adam.

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