First release: Cockpit on PDA
Necessary Operating System: Windows Mobile Version 5.0 OS 5.1.195
Features
- Display analog and digital gauges with value selector
- Input selector (File or ECU)
- Full screen (Optimal looks: 240x320 display resolution)
- cross platform application, will be possible to compile on linux or desktop-win-XP or other OS in the future (as demand justifies)
Pictures, screenshot, ini and executable files: [look here]
Installation
- Copy 7Segmentdot.ttf to Windows\Fonts
- Copy to root directory:
- datalog.log
- v3cockpit.exe
- vemsv3.ini
Our hardware environment: Fujitsu Siemens Pocket LOOX N520
- Processor: PXA270-312 MHz
- Memory: 50,29 MB
- Display: 240x320, 65536 colors
Suggestions by Fero:
I work with a lot of race cars. Every driver would like to use pdacockpit instead of the original stock gauges of the car. The same systems are very expensive, so pdacockpit would be a very attractive feature of VEMS. But there are some thing that we should thinking about. While driving, only very few things can be read from the display by the driver. So the display should be very informative, and very easy to read. Only few data should be on it. Here, i made a small handgraph how i'd like the display:
The main thing is the RPM bar. It's the biggest. The boost, and the Lambda bars, are also fairly easy to read. The other bars could be smaller. On the bottom is the ALS, and the LAUNCH activate control lamps are also bigger. Think about the head of the race driver! What does he need for easy driving! The colours are black and white, very easy to read. But the colours of the bars should be change at a point. For example the RPM bar should become red instead of the shiftight. Or the CLT bar should change into red when the CLT reaches 100 Celsius, etc....
Here are some links, how the others do the dash:
http://www.aimsports.com/products/auto.html
http://walbro-tdd.com/prodottie.html#
http://www.stackltd.com/display1.html
http://www.motec.com.au/adl.htm
http://www.xap.fr/us_pr_xd_index.php
There are some potentially useful widgets in this Industrial Controls Package:
http://www.koansoftware.com/kwic/index.htm
They're available with the following license: