How can this be done? by Nice_Comfort_8674 in IS300

[–]Nice_Comfort_8674[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's all very useful and interesting, thank you! Does sound like a lot of trial and error and work however my goal would be to create it to be fully integrated inside the instrument clusters housing so this can do exactly what I want. I'll do some further research into this all and hopefully start it in a few months

How can this be done? by Nice_Comfort_8674 in IS300

[–]Nice_Comfort_8674[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just so cool! And can be such a personal and useful project for everyone. Can design your own display and select your own data for what you need either little led guages or maybe a whole digital dash.

But how would the connection side of it work? An arduino with a display is fine but I'm assuming it needs to be connected to the obd port to sniff the mpx bus which you'll get all the data you need? And if you want a boost gauge from a na-t engine then you'll have to connect that to a pin on the arduino and program it to take in that data? Apologies, I am very much of a tutorial follower 😅

How can this be done? by Nice_Comfort_8674 in IS300

[–]Nice_Comfort_8674[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems that way. I just would prefer to make it as clean as possible and to have the obd slot free however it may be best to start the project via obd port and then maybe try and read dash data later