Hi,
I run Richard Burns Rally software which produces onscreen display of various car data such a gear, turbo boost, throttle, brake etc.
Is it possible for one of the Arduino boards to gather this information and allow me to output it to either another small screen or to leds and digital gear displays.
If it is possible then could you advise which is the most suitable Arduino board to use.
Thanks,
Pete
Too little info to give an answer.
What is Richard Burns Rally software? - do you have a link? sources of that SW?
What hardware is involved with Mr Burns SW?
How many cars are on screen? How much data per second do you expect?
Hi,
It's a rally simulator where individual cars run along tracks (stages) against the clock. PC setups normally have a steering wheel, brake, clutch and throttle pedals and can have gear shifters for gear selection.
This site might explain a little more: simracingworld.com - simracingworld Resources and Information.
and this site will give you some idea about the sort of data that is captured:
http://www.geocities.jp/v317mt/ This was a plugin written to display the ingame date and shows it alongside the ingame dashboard or HUD.
USB controller boards are used to interface to the game via the USB ports to supply the data from the steering wheel, foot pedals and gear shifters Load Cell Interface BU0836-LC - USB - there are manufacturers of simulator racing hardware that collect SKD (think that is correct) data from the games but Richard Burns Rally doesn't supply data in that format but programmers are able to write the plugins to link into the ingame data to drive things like tachometers, leds and gear lights. This is one such company: http://www.symprojects.com/
I've just found this site - so it appears that it will interface with racing simulator software - all I need to do is try it with Richard Burns Rally - http://fergotech.net/diy-dashboard/
Think the scope of the solution lies outside what an Arduino can do.
If you have the source of the plugin mentioned it could be modified to send the displayed data to a serial port...
update: or ask the creator of the plugin to do so ..