{"id":430,"date":"2012-03-29T15:28:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2012-03-29T15:28:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T15:28:48","slug":"dash-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"Dash Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The car PC installation was very useful for the balloon chase last weekend, but it would have been a lot better with a display closer to the driver&#8217;s line-of-sight. I knew that having the monitor buried down at the bottom of the dash wasn&#8217;t ideal, so I always expected to have to add a smaller display higher up, and here it is.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to build my own controller, but found that thesell simple controllers that can connect to a PC using a USB-serial converter. So I bought one of their controllers and a display, and quickly got those soldered together and connected to a suitable USB converter.<\/p>\n<p>After proving it all worked, I added some code to my car PC software to send important data &#8211; such as the balloon altitude and distance from car to balloon. The most useful thing when driving is to know the direction to the balloon, so this appears as a compass heading on the top-left of the display. Here&#8217;s the display temporarily stuck into a dash vent:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?attachment_id=431\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-431\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-431\" title=\"P1040126\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040126-e1333034906718-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040126-e1333034906718-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040126-e1333034906718-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?attachment_id=432\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-432\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-432\" title=\"P1040127\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040127-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040127-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1040127-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The car PC installation was very useful for the balloon chase last weekend, but it would have been a lot better with a display closer to the driver&#8217;s line-of-sight. I knew that having the monitor buried down at the bottom of the dash wasn&#8217;t ideal, so I always expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}