yah I Have seen your dash in the past... Looks cool, i love to do stuff like that myself :-). My 9-5 jop is to create items like that, both hardware and software and build prototypes to proove that a hardware or software concept could work and fit a purpose. That being said if i head the digital dash route i would want to do something on my own.
Last night i found this little jem again. its an Audio Virtual Dashboard that they include in a few of their models. People have successfully transfered them into other models of vehicles (all audi as far as i can tell). The unit comes complete with Nav, cameras, streering consols, etc.... It gets its data from Canbus for the steering controls, RPM, Speed, etc.
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Pair that with something like this for $3, to spoof the proper canbus commands.
https://hackaday.com/2018/04/11/emul...-on-the-esp32/
or this (I acutally own one of these... somewhere... I have to find it). This unit is capable of taking canbus commands from one ECU and rewriting the packets to new canbus commands. Like a man in the middle attack. This device can also be hooked up to an actual working audi cluster to record every canbus command that the dash receive. This would be required to document the canbus commands that the dash expects to see.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...cursor=7786318
This would allow anyone to put this dash in any vehicle.
OR... if i couldnt find an Audi to play with.....
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Plan B. The Actual LCD panel is a 12.3" 1,440px/540px made by a company called
Japan Display Inc. I believe the panel should have a standard LVDS connector on the back. This would be quite easy to adapt to HDMI, add a small Raspberry PI and a bluetooth or wifi ODB2 adapter and i could create a similar onscreen menu to the Audi.
Of course all of this takes time... which i dont have a ton of :-)
This brings me back to the traction control system i was talking about creating a while back... which i do still plan to do.... that as well takes time.
I think this might be what i do for now, it will work and will get my car approved for road use. Once the car is done and i am looking for a new project I think i will buy an Audi dash and start playing.