(03-20-2011, 02:08 PM)yankneck696 Just a step away from controlling the electronic IP's, I would say. With that, you would be able to infinitely tune the turbo &IP to work together & get any response you want. Oh, you can't adjust it with the Android, can you? Just monitor the gagues, or can you actually BT a change into the processor? That would be wickednizzacool !!!

(03-20-2011, 02:56 PM)yankneck696 I havent truly programmed anything since the Wang 2200, but BASIC was pretty easy to do with if/then.

Ed

(03-20-2011, 01:16 PM)stan why bluetooth+android instead of running some gauges? or what about giving the setup its own lcd?

(03-20-2011, 02:08 PM)yankneck696 Just a step away from controlling the electronic IP's, I would say. With that, you would be able to infinitely tune the turbo &IP to work together & get any response you want. Oh, you can't adjust it with the Android, can you? Just monitor the gagues, or can you actually BT a change into the processor? That would be wickednizzacool !!!

(03-20-2011, 02:18 PM)stan i still don't think i would be so eager to use BT especially if it was for mission critical systems.

(03-22-2011, 07:04 PM)JTY Nice setup, personally i would go with standalone setup with custom LCD built in the car as i have with my own supermeter project that uses
also microcontroller for everything. Also LCD are really cheap and you get them in million different sizes and formats.
It's nice to have phone support, but then you need your phone always and it's married with your phone little bit too much

(03-23-2011, 12:43 PM)winmutt

(03-22-2011, 07:04 PM)JTY Nice setup, personally i would go with standalone setup with custom LCD built in the car as i have with my own supermeter project that uses
also microcontroller for everything. Also LCD are really cheap and you get them in million different sizes and formats.
It's nice to have phone support, but then you need your phone always and it's married with your phone little bit too much

Pictures of your LCD? I couldnt find a good place for it which is why I went with the phone. I don't talk much on the phone anyways so it works better for me.

(03-23-2011, 12:43 PM)winmutt Pictures of your LCD? I couldnt find a good place for it which is why I went with the phone. I don't talk much on the phone anyways so it works better for me.

(03-25-2011, 01:56 AM)stan i suppose you could always just include a harness for an LCD - maybe put a jumper on your final board to have the arduino swap some variables around for display on a character lcd. keep it modular!

Quote:i know that i've wanted to build a control system to run wvo 2-tank, but this sounds like fun too.

what are you using on the sensor side for rack position and fluid temps? i've figured that the stock temp sensors might just be k-type thermocouples but i havent had the time or money to investigate (and get a thermocouple amplifier board).

Quote:have you thought about fuel pressure sensing? being able to see both line pressure and pressure drop across the filters would be handy for diagnostics.

(03-26-2011, 07:50 AM)300D50 Get a huge atmel mcu, breadboard, 7805 regulator, and a crystal, and flash the arduino bootloader.
No need to buy pre-fab unless you want to.

(03-25-2011, 01:40 AM)winmutt Yes but where do you put the LCD screens?

(03-26-2011, 11:34 PM)eurotuning In my opinion the best is a tablet pc, you can buy in circuit city the Archos 7 for $100, and then have the TunerStudio with a nice display cluster.

(04-01-2011, 08:47 AM)winmutt Got a few hours of code in last night. Got the MAX6675 code in for the EGT sensor and started working up a simple protocol for streaming the different inputs to the Android. The documentation the on the Arduino is pretty lacking once you get further into it. Having a hard problem with strings, probably going to go old school and use malloc instead of futzing around with their Strings class (only avail in Arduinp 0019 and up however the 0022 I have installed doesn't like uploading code).

Also got the serial interface working on the BT shield and was able to set it at 115200 baud. At this point I have 7 more digital I/O pings and 4 more analogs. I fired up the analog without anything plugged in last night. Code is getting tighter, I have ~5k out of a max of 14k. I think instead of trying to convert numbers on the arduino into human readable I will let the android handle that, should cut a k or two of code out.

Reprogramming the Arduino is a PITA as you have to remove the BT shield to upload code and then the BT shield wont work with the USB cord plugged in, so I am constantly swapping them in and out.

(04-03-2011, 05:03 PM)stan

(04-01-2011, 08:47 AM)winmutt Got a few hours of code in last night. Got the MAX6675 code in for the EGT sensor and started working up a simple protocol for streaming the different inputs to the Android. The documentation the on the Arduino is pretty lacking once you get further into it. Having a hard problem with strings, probably going to go old school and use malloc instead of futzing around with their Strings class (only avail in Arduinp 0019 and up however the 0022 I have installed doesn't like uploading code).

Also got the serial interface working on the BT shield and was able to set it at 115200 baud. At this point I have 7 more digital I/O pings and 4 more analogs. I fired up the analog without anything plugged in last night. Code is getting tighter, I have ~5k out of a max of 14k. I think instead of trying to convert numbers on the arduino into human readable I will let the android handle that, should cut a k or two of code out.

Reprogramming the Arduino is a PITA as you have to remove the BT shield to upload code and then the BT shield wont work with the USB cord plugged in, so I am constantly swapping them in and out.

whats the issue you are having with strings?

and what issues are you having uploading code? (i've got an uno and a duemilanove here, and running 0022).

(04-08-2012, 08:24 PM)winmutt A year later and I'm getting back to this project. Bad news is that I have lost the code. Good news is that I now have a Asus transformer and can develop right on the android. Much better than the old way. I also have a spare phone for the project and am not sure where to put the display. Ashtray may still be the reigning champion.

(11-09-2012, 07:17 PM)winmutt Sadly during the last move I lost the box that had this project in it. Gonna start looking for new stuff tonight.

(12-11-2012, 07:20 AM)winmutt My SainSmart came AND my wife found the old arduino and all the extras I had on it. Yay!

(05-24-2013, 05:20 PM)winmutt Two years later I have boost and egt working. Need to run to frys at some point this weekend to get some wires and a case and I'll feed the tach in as well.

(05-24-2013, 06:24 PM)Purplecomputer

(05-24-2013, 05:20 PM)winmutt Two years later I have boost and egt working. Need to run to frys at some point this weekend to get some wires and a case and I'll feed the tach in as well.

Are you keeping the micro controller on the arduino development board or did you move it onto another board that you have designed?

I'm working on the same project. Can't get the LCD to work. I'm using sample code from the library so its obviously how I'm using the breadboard to hook it up.

(05-28-2013, 08:51 AM)winmutt

(05-24-2013, 06:24 PM)Purplecomputer

(05-24-2013, 05:20 PM)winmutt Two years later I have boost and egt working. Need to run to frys at some point this weekend to get some wires and a case and I'll feed the tach in as well.

Are you keeping the micro controller on the arduino development board or did you move it onto another board that you have designed?

I'm working on the same project. Can't get the LCD to work. I'm using sample code from the library so its obviously how I'm using the breadboard to hook it up.

I am and I too had a ton of problems getting the lcd to work. The documentation is shiet in some places. What are you using?