Hello, I hacked the Opel display. Normally it shows the RDS information of the carradio. Now it shows the revolutions per minute of the engine. I used a PIC processor to measure the rpm and talk to the display.
www.eelkevisser.nl/display.htm
At my university there is a project of trying to combine both technologies. They think this can be done by the "softeware radio princple". This means that you use the same hardware for the compatible electrical building blocks (Oscillators, mixer, amplifiers, detecters)
With technique one can switch a radio circuit from BLuetooth to 802.11 and back without changing hardware. Looks nifty to me...
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The Opel (Vauxhall) display can easily be interfaced to a PIC microcontroller. See www.eelkevisser.nl for more information.
Hello, I hacked the Opel display. Normally it shows the RDS information of the carradio. Now it shows the revolutions per minute of the engine. I used a PIC processor to measure the rpm and talk to the display. www.eelkevisser.nl/display.htm
At my university there is a project of trying to combine both technologies. They think this can be done by the "softeware radio princple". This means that you use the same hardware for the compatible electrical building blocks (Oscillators, mixer, amplifiers, detecters)
With technique one can switch a radio circuit from BLuetooth to 802.11 and back without changing hardware. Looks nifty to me...
Visser.