Friday, November 19, 2010

Prototype Embedded Megasquirt Runtime Display

Generally, it is not so practical to hook on the laptop in car to display the Megasquirt runtime information for daily driving practice.

So I had decided to make some simple stuff that will be embedded based computer in car, during the past Hari Raya Haji holiday, I had spent my spare time to develop a relatively simple software that run on Windows CE for Megasquirt, the draft software only able to display the runtime information from Megasquirt via serial port but do not have any tuning features.

The software is running on the ARM9 development board that I bought with an attractive price from China.


The software was developed using Visual Studio.NET


The interface of Windows CE


The interface of developed MegasquirtCE software


The ARM9 board was then mounted into a hard plastic casing to use in car




The software is still very basic as it only took me 2 hours to complete, in future I might add some map loading and data logging features into it, but real time tuning is not practical for such a small 3.5" LCD, I need the bigger 1 instead =)