Came across this GPz900 build and really love the idea; converting a small 7" tablet into a dash...spent quite a bit of time searching for hardware that would be used for tach and idiot lights and came up with nothing. The speedometer function seems pretty simple, would just use a GPS enabled tablet, but it's the rest that has me stumped; the software and hardware/bung. Anyone have a clue? check this out;
(http://kickstart.bikeexif.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/gpz900r-3-625x625.jpg)
Write up on the build here:
http://www.bikeexif.com/gpz900r (http://www.bikeexif.com/gpz900r)
All that's explained is that the graphics/overlay were customized, but I highly doubt a programmer started from scratch to build dash software just for this bike, and even if he didn't it wouldn't explain how he was receiving input from the motorcycle.
*edit: doing this on an injected bike with an ECU would be a heckuva lot simpler, but this 34 year old bike obviously isn't equipped with all that.
So far Tunerstudio appears to be the standard for this type of project but it's unclear if that works for a carbed bike. Since I have an Ignitech, it's possible I can get a tach signal from that using a serial to USB adaptor.
Why don't you ask Icon about the tablet application? They put it on a 1984 bike after all.
Quote from: Buck Naked on September 14, 2014, 05:22:42 AM
*edit: doing this on an injected bike with an ECU would be a heckuva lot simpler, but this 34 year old bike obviously isn't equipped with all that.
As of yet... Tunerstudio (and the more likely culprit, Shadowdash) pretty much implies the installation of an EFI computer, even if you don't use it to drive EFI. At least in my understanding.
EFI is not out of the realm of possibility for your 34 year old bike...