I am currently trying to start an air suspension management project.
I want to use a round touchscreen display to control my system, by creating some sort of UI for this screen that displays buttons and options etc... (ill explain in depth below)
I have a MEGA that I'm hoping can be the brain of the system where, long story short, any values outputted by the touchscreen UI (the user tapping a button etc..) will trigger the appropriate response by the arduino.
So I’m trying to find a way to make this UI on my computer that I can have loaded onto my touchscreen and have it communicate with the system.
For example...
I tap on the touchscreen the "All Down" button indicating I would like all airbags to exhaust while the button is held. And that sends a value or signal to the arduino that it recognises and triggers the relays that exhaust the bags.
Second example…
I want to have an app on my phone where I can set custom height presets and when they’re saved, the option for that preset be on the touchscreen interface. I will have the ride height presets run off ride height sensors in each wheel well of the car measuring how high the car is sat on a scale of 0-100.
The preset height will have a demanded value for each corner also of a value of 0-100. So I’ll have the arduino take this signal that a preset has been selected, determine how high each bag is now and how high it needs to be and automatically add or subtract air for each bag until each height sensor is reading the correct value.
For those of you that want to read…
My project is for a car that has air suspension installed but I don’t want to pay the OTT prices for airlift management, and also I love a challenge and project.
I decided I could do it! By using relays that drive valves and a MEGA that is the brain that drives it all, ride height sensors on each corner of the car so the MEGA knows where the car is sat.
I wanted a round touchscreen display of roughly 53mm to fit in place of an aftermarket boost gauge etc…
And have some sort of UI displayed through this screen where you can control the system.
I’m also thinking to incorporate a phone app to set ride height presets then load it onto the screen system.
I’ll admit I am fairly new to this game, I am slowly teaching myself how to code but all the help and support would be amazing!
TIA