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programming a fuel gauge for my car?

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kflick
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programming a fuel gauge for my car?

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Hi all,

I suspect I'm barking up the wrong tree since smartie seems to need a PC to run a panel, but I've been proved wrong before!

I'm hoping to make a custom LCD (or other display tech...) panel to show the fuel level in my car. The fuel sender is a variable resistor, so I need a controller to interpret that into a bar graph with "E" on one end and "F" on the other.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!!
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Re: programming a fuel gauge for my car?

Post by limbo »

You need a μController for this... LCD Smartie works under windows PC so it can not help on this case unless you have a car PC.

Check out Arduino
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaB ... 424290/all
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/AnalogInput
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Potentiometer
kflick
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Re: programming a fuel gauge for my car?

Post by kflick »

Thanks for sending me to exactly what I needed!
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