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A project log for Retro-futuristic automobile control panel

Conversion of dashboard from an old, Communist clone of the French Renault 12 (Dacia 1310)

skaarj[skaarj] 03/28/2016 at 07:411 Comment

Computer display update:

- Got a Crown 5" Color TV set from E-bay, dismantled it and installed in some old military rocket programming device made in West Germany back in the 80s;

- I managed to acquire some needles (pointers) for the analog gauges;

- Using GIMP Toolkit (Photoshop for Unix) I painted the analog dials;

- Started to install the needles on the indicators. The original dash board has 6 analog gauges: RPM, speed, battery, gas level, oil pressure and engine temperature. Added two more gauges for radiation level and battery charge (negative for drain, positive for charge).

Pictures are posted in the "files" section.

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[skaarj] wrote 03/28/2016 at 07:43 point

Raspberry PI configuration in progress - installed FreeBSD Unix, installed a graphical user interface. Pictures will be uploaded as soon as I return from work.

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