Thanks everyone for the replies,

The Dash7 was the one I was thinking off (thanks Michael)  and seeing 
that this car is a Locost which is very similar to a Lotus Seven it may 
be a good start for a solution, my friend is scowering the junk yards to 
try to find a electronic version of the speedo / odo that may fit the 
existing dash for a quick fix (with a pic to count pulses and correct 
the count) but I do like the idea of the Dash7, would look very nice 
with a graphical VFD etc..


thankyou


Lee McLaren

Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:

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>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>>Sent: 03 January 2005 10:41
>>To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>>Subject: Re: [OT]Electronic car instruments
>>
>>
>>Thanks Jinx,
>>
>>Yes I am in Oz, Tasmania to be exact,
>>
>>I am looking for something a little more sophisticated, 
>>something like a 
>>LCD dash with a speedo and odometer, temp, fuel etc.
>>
>>We have already tried the LED ones but they are unreadable in sunlight 
>>and we need the odo function for insurance, his insurance 
>>policy limits 
>>the car to 8k kilometers per year and he is concerned that if there is 
>>no evidence of distance traveled they may shirk their responsibilities!
>>
>>I the distant past I seem to remember a LCD dash that someone designed 
>>using I think from memory a 16f877 but I can't find it anymore.
>>    
>>
>
>The Dash7 springs to mind, http://home.c2i.net/toratlel/Dash7.htm  (so
>called as it was designed for use in a Lotus seven replica).  The
>firmware is not open source, but given the hardware design it would not
>be very difficult to write from scratch.
>
>Regards
>
>Mike
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