I thought it would be intresting to see people's hardware showing various LFS stats (speed, RPM, turbo - whatever). And oh - it has to be DIY. Wouldn't be very interesting seeing a bunch of G15s displaying data on it's LCD.

Mine:

visual RPM gauge on Nokia 3110c - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQhmRZLyylE (gameplay by a friend).

RPM gauge with a needle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skIKF4Aun9c.

Currently in progress - turbo gauge with a servo motor.

Well, i guess somebody has to be first to mention it. Demo account and BF1?

Anyways. Nice work. Not the biggest fan of the nokia-gauge, but the other one was nice, maybe a bit low "resolution" on the steppermotor, but i guess a servo will fix that, which will be your next project as you say.

maybye we can expect a realeas of that program?If yes when?

Quote from flonoen :

Well, i guess somebody has to be first to mention it. Demo account and BF1?

Anyways. Nice work. Not the biggest fan of the nokia-gauge, but the other one was nice, maybe a bit low "resolution" on the steppermotor, but i guess a servo will fix that, which will be your next project as you say.

"Gameplay by a friend" - I added that for a purpose. I hope there won't be flamewars coming now.

@oldnavy - you mean Nokia app?

Quote from byte1 :

"Gameplay by a friend" - I added that for a purpose. I hope there won't be flamewars coming now.

@oldnavy - you mean Nokia app?

And the name of that friend would be..?

yes I mean nokia app

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And the name of that friend would be..?

Exactly that I was talking about. FYI - he hardly ever races online, far from having forum account - don't know his username. Sometimes I do some racing at his place.

Back on topic - currently it's very beta. But if you're intrested I may give you the apps (for PC and cell) with their source codes.

Quote from [SWE]RE :

And the name of that friend would be..?

What's it to you anyway? Or did I miss the announcement where you were put in charge of demo racers using cracked accounts?

That electric motor with tacho needle looks interesting. I would like to try it out if you would release your program.

aren't there already outsim gauges like that? (the paper with motor one)

Can you show it please?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nggmr7WICuQ

but don't ask me anything about it, i didn't do it.

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That electric motor with tacho needle looks interesting. I would like to try it out if you would release your program.

For that you would need Basic Stamp, stepper motor, stepper motor driver - if you have those then you could use the program, too. :P Until that it wouldn't be any use.

Sure, i understand. I have already all of them.

Quote from PioneerLv :

Sure, i understand. I have already all of them.

OK.

Source code for Basic Stamp (mine is BS2):


I don't know where software for PC is ATM, I'll post when I find it.

Quote from byte1 :

Exactly that I was talking about. FYI - he hardly ever races online, far from having forum account - don't know his username. Sometimes I do some racing at his place.

Back on topic - currently it's very beta. But if you're intrested I may give you the apps (for PC and cell) with their source codes.

Just gotta correct something: If he has S2, he has a Forum account.

Quote from byte1 :

"Gameplay by a friend" - I added that for a purpose. I hope there won't be flamewars coming now.

Oops, sorry man, didn't read that in your post

Btw, can you explain this Basic Stamp for me? Is it a language for programming the motor directly, or do you use a microcontroller to control it? I have been using the Mikroelektronika PIC's in school, and I'm having a lecture about Atmel's AVR in a couple of minutes. Is it something related to this?

Also, I'm assuming you're using a serial port to communicate with the controller?

Yes - I am using serial connection (USB and FTDI, though). Basic Stamp already is a microcontroller and it's controlling the motor through a ULN2003 (or compatible) chip which is necessary because of the currents or smth .

But the idea of that program is very easy - it waits for input and then rotates it accordingly (comparing to previous rotation). Driving a 5-wire stepper is also very easy, look for tutorials in the internet.

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Yes - I am using serial connection (USB and FTDI, though). Basic Stamp already is a microcontroller and it's controlling the motor through a ULN2003 (or compatible) chip which is necessary because of the currents or smth .

But the idea of that program is very easy - it waits for input and then rotates it accordingly (comparing to previous rotation). Driving a 5-wire stepper is also very easy, look for tutorials in the internet.

I just got my hands on a Atmel AVR STK500 devolopmentkit for $50 or so, thinking of going with that..

Is the BasicStamp controllers expensive? In my "regular" electronics-site i noticed the programmer was cheap, $10 or so, but the controller itself was very expensive! But maybe i was looking at the wrong item, a circuit with more than one controller or something like that.. Any thoughs on this?

Quote from flonoen :

I just got my hands on a Atmel AVR STK500 devolopmentkit for $50 or so, thinking of going with that..

Is the BasicStamp controllers expensive? In my "regular" electronics-site i noticed the programmer was cheap, $10 or so, but the controller itself was very expensive! But maybe i was looking at the wrong item, a circuit with more than one controller or something like that.. Any thoughs on this?

I guess it's the opposite way - programmer costs a lot, microchip itself is cheap .

The thing I've got is here - http://www.parallax.com/Store/ ... roductID/126/Default.aspx. Module itself: http://www.parallax.com/Store/ ... /ProductID/1/Default.aspx.

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Just gotta correct something: If he has S2, he has a Forum account.

Just gotta correct something: You are NOT member of LFS S2 police.

Quote from byte1 :

I guess it's the opposite way - programmer costs a lot, microchip itself is cheap .

The thing I've got is here - http://www.parallax.com/Store/ ... roductID/126/Default.aspx. Module itself: http://www.parallax.com/Store/ ... /ProductID/1/Default.aspx.

I've just purchased a AVR STK500 kit now, so i will be trying to make something out of that, time will tell if i succeed. Would be grateful if you would share your other sourcecode, the one intended for the computer itself!

Also, 49 bucks for the controller itself (although it is a module, with some other features besides the processor) is kinda much! An AVR-controller is around $3, but then i only get the chip.

Quote from flonoen :

I've just purchased a AVR STK500 kit now, so i will be trying to make something out of that, time will tell if i succeed. Would be grateful if you would share your other sourcecode, the one intended for the computer itself!

Also, 49 bucks for the controller itself (although it is a module, with some other features besides the processor) is kinda much! An AVR-controller is around $3, but then i only get the chip.

Oh, BS isn't inteded to be integrating - it's a learning kit. With BS doing such projects as LFS gauges and stuff it's very (I mean VERY) easy to do, if you got necessary items.

And as for the sourcecode - I could send you my program but it works with serial connection only.

I would be very grateful for that! I have some basic knowledge in a couple of languages, so hopefully I will understand enough to make it work with an AVR instead of BS. I will send you an pm with my email! Serial communications is no problem, been using a rs232-usb converter in school, and also made one myself (doubt i'll find that though..), but i think i have a rs232-port on my computer at home.