Ski Nautique 2001: DIY Digital Dash

wakeboarderdave1 · Posted: May 02, 2012 8:35 am Post subject: Ski Nautique 2001: DIY Digital Dash

This past semester I took an Arduino programming class. Towards the end of the semester I began thinking of ways that I could learn more about this technology. After watching an episode of West Coast Customs where they built a custom car for Microsoft that used a tablet for the gauge cluster. I decided that building/upgrading the dash in our 2001 would be a cool project. Also the speedometers for our boat are constantly getting clogged so we can never get accurate speed readings. Below is a picture of the Microsoft project.

I'm debating starting with a whole dash replacement that would incorporate a tablet or starting small. If I chose to start small I would modify a current speedometer so that it could house a small LCD touchscreen that would display a speedometer. I could add on fuel reading and air and water temperature. My plan is to use a GPS sensor to calculate speed.

I'll keep this thread up to date with my project status (parts, link to code, etc) throughout the summer.

kartman · Posted: May 04, 2012 3:24 am Post subject:

interesting. suscribed.

Baltfrog · Addict Joined: 24 Jan 2012 Posts: 555 City: Baltimore

There was that keyboard that came out a few years ago, it was all about adding little lcds, so that you could change each key feature and it could display data. Somewhat like the tiles on the windows phones. If you could build something like that where you could just keep adding new little lcds for gauges that could be cool. I see that as being the best way to do it piece by piece. Please keep us updated on this project. Could be very cool. For the speedo, you could bypass the oldschool method and just use a gps speedo (displayed on an lcd) which would be more accurate and would require less wiring.

pepowdylan · Newbie Joined: 17 Apr 2012 Posts: 17

The 2012 xstar has all digital gauges.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

Cool...definitely want to watch this as well.

wakeboarderdave1 · Posted: May 04, 2012 12:29 pm Post subject:

This blog post shows a good bit of detail towards what I want to accomplish with my first build. I don't want it to look the same graphically and I'm not going to use most of the components used.

http://www.janspace.com/b2evolution/arduino.php/2010/06/26/scooterputer

kartman · Posted: May 24, 2012 6:03 am Post subject:

looks like it shouldnt be to hard if you understand this kind of stuff.

jamespjackson95 · Outlaw Joined: 17 May 2012 Posts: 113

Any updates?

wakeboarderdave1 · Posted: May 31, 2012 6:11 pm Post subject:

I don't really know if this project is going to make it past the thinking stages. We rarely use our boat anymore to. I also need to buy parts to do this and right now I have more important expenses.