Hi folks!
I have just came across with a thread on the russian website, about fancy car cluster project. They have created a nice looking car dashboard using Adobe Air technology, that can run on any Android or Windows device. Unfortunately it was a commercial project and they don't share much information
I have wondered, maybe someone has already similar experience to advice?
P.S. I am familiar with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
Did you have an Arduino-related question?
PaulS:
Did you have an Arduino-related question?
Yes. It is.
nebulae:
Yes. It is.
No it is not.
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ieee488:
No it is not.:
But why?
P.S. If it's not related you can remove this thread.
I think this is a multi step process...
and hence should be broken up into its equal parts.
1.) Hardware side
I'm assuming some sort of connection to a 'car'.. but the details are important..
Things like:
2.) The software side (not the sketch/code for the Arduino.. but the Adobe Air side of things.. or the GUI aspect)
I dont have much experience with Adobe Air.. but I was a Flash developer for many years (in a former life) 
If the 'hardware' device attached to the car transmitting its data vis bluetooth? So the GUI/dashboard needs to be close in proximity?
Is the 'hardware' uploading this data to the 'cloud/a server'.. (a central access point).. and the GUI/dashboard is polling getting this data from the server/database?
Seems like your missing a few pieces of this puzzle... and the 'bridge' that lets everything communicate together..
Creating some sort of visual gauge that mirrors/displays data sent to it is not a big deal...
Without some 'basic info'...
a generic outline could be:
Car 'hardware' can use an ESP8266 wi-fi module to send this data to a database.. where it is logged/saved..
(but still no clue about this card hardware portion.. what your getting and how?)
Then some web app will poll/receive this data and update your gauge display(s)...
the 'glue' here is some server side scripting.. to take this data sent from (ESP8266 module).. save to a database...
and another 'server side' script to poll/get this data and deliver it to the gauge app.
Thank you for your effort!
Sorry for not giving enough information. Here it comes:
A friend of mine has a 2000 BMW 5 car. He wants to play with it, to tune and give a little bit updated look. First we wanted to take original cluster out, a little bit reverse engineer and change the layout with minimalistic design, leaving only most important indicators.
Then I saw abovementioned russian website (I speak little russian). Those guys did awesome job, but project is no more alive and important infos are "top secret".
I have ordered an OBDII cable (OBDLink SX), that should acquire data, e.g. car milage, speed etc. Serial data will go strait to Arduino board. After doing proper data processing, useful data will be transferred (maybe using transparent serial WIFI bridge/WIFI socket) to the Android device i.e. tablet. (Or Windows/Linux device, why not?) Software has to take data coming from WIFI and display it in a designed way, so that it looks like a car dashboard.
Main aim of this project is to replace stock instrument cluster of a car. (But why not to design in future an HMI? It's only one step further.)
As far as I know, they have used a HLK-RM04 WIFI module, Arduino Mega and simple custom shield. They have not used OBD, but many sensors installed in car. It could be easier to have their Android app, so I am not a app developer. But I have to manage it somehow. I presume, it's not necessarily hard as it seems to be.
P.S. You can call me stupid, because I could order bluetooth OBD adapter and use any existing OBD app. But it's boring. 
EDIT
Found example for Adobe AIR - Arduino interaction: Antipasto Hardware Blog: How to read Arduino sensors with Adobe AIR Flex on Android
I wonder if this RemoteXY Thread would be of interest? Or this alternative?
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Might be it could be possible to create Adobe Air app in Adobe Flash Professional with implementing AS3. Using AS3 we can open a socket to make Air app able to communicate with Arduino. Adobe Flash itself is a great visual GUI development environment.
I have researched a little and I found some couple years old examples, as not many people do it again. And examples are only using Firmata. I would be happy if anyone knows the way how to do it without Firmata, since I want to use Arduino as a main logic unit.
Once you get behind the fancy pictures all the communication between an Android device and an Arduino is the same as between the SerialMonitor and an Arduino - just serial data.
Have a look at Serial Input Basics and make your Android app send data in the same fornat as in Example 3
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I never really took the plunge to AS3.. (although very fluent in AS2)
And I dont have any experience with Adobe AIR (just Flash/AS2)... so I'm not sure what or how Adobe AIR apps run on tablets.
(does if it the flash player?.. I dont really it running in the browser)
If it does, you might be out of luck on most modern devices (especially iOS devices)
Not sure about the connection between the OBDII device and the Arduino (probably a 'shield' for it)..lol
...but it might be too much 'data' for the Arduino to parse and grab what you are looking for?
After that.... I mirror exactly what Robin2 says.. its all serial communication.
maybe Arduino connects to OBDII device.. and transmits via (serial) bluetooth to some 'app' connected to the (bluetooth enabled) tablet?
have you looked into processing?
