New Features for MPGuino?

[justjohn]

Originally Posted by mluckham

I'm lousy at UI design, if someone would design a nice 240x320 layout for MPGuino and post it here, it would be fantastic.

I might be able to help with this. I know a little UI theory and have some artists in the family for visual direction.

In a later comment you sounded almost like you just wanted a background image to drop the gauge. What exactly do you need done, and what are the exact constraints?

[mluckham]

Sorry, haven't worked on Arduino stuff lately - got sidetracked on a GPS logger project, and one of those TI watch kits - but I've read all these posts with great interest.

Yes, if you read back to the beginning of this thread the resolution of the LCD display is mentioned - and yes I was thinking of a bitmap "backdrop" and only animating the gauge indicators. The LCD device I have, has a built-in microSD memory card with FAT file system, it's easy to load different gauge bitmaps.

[justjohn]

If that's all you need anyone can just grab any non-copyrighted image off the internet and resize it. Can it be .jpg? Can it be full color depth or is it limited to 8 or 16 bit?

What did you have in mind? Something leafy? Something high tech looking?

[bobski]

Originally Posted by justjohn

If that's all you need anyone can just grab any non-copyrighted image off the internet and resize it.

I think he means that the stationary parts of each gauge like the outline, fixed numbers, tick marks, labels and such should be a background image, while any moving parts like needles, numerical displays, bar graphs, X-Y graphs - anything that changes - would be actively rendered by the panel hardware.

[Mpgian]

So will a guy just be able to upload the code to the MPGuino chip via USB and solder on a new display?


keep the good work up!

[dewasha]

I feel great the idea of ​​using L2C for the screen to save pins and cables reduce the difficulty of the connection, be easier to place the devices in small spaces and so well I love the ability to shut down the system and the display shows only the date and time when the module is inactive obd, if I mistake the brightness of the screen should not be used for PWM output uses the intensity that goes with it because we could not damage the atmega?

thanks

[dewasha]

full support would be nice to screens of 4 lines I think it's a way easier and more comfortable to see more data.

[TOOQIKK]

any updates? this sounds interesting....wish i knew more about code!