Replacement speedometer - Hack a Day

Replacement speedometer

posted Jun 17th 2010 9:00am by Mike Szczys
filed under: transportation hacks

[Howard] built his own replacement speedometer for his truck after the original speedometer cable broke. He’s using surface mount components and produced a two-board design that is quite nice. When he tipped us off he mentioned that this is Arduino powered and uses a hall effect sensor. There’s not talk of this in his writeup but we gather that he’s just using the bootloader on an AVR chip and that he hall effect sensor measures the rotation of one of the wheels. When the vehicle isn’t moving the board alternates between max speed and trip distance. Once he’s on the roll it shows current speed.

tagged: arduino, speedometer

Go there...
http://hackaday.com/2010/06/17/replacement-speedometer/

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