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BMW E90 Cluster working on BeamNG!

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Master0wn3r, Dec 9, 2018.

  1. Master0wn3r

    Master0wn3r
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    hello all,
    As some of you know I was working on some canbus related cluster stuff and our development has not sat still.
    The tool I made does everything I need it to but I decided to buy an BMW E90 cluster and update our Arduino code to be used with the newer cluster.

    Currently one speedo, tacho and blinkers working but way more should be doable now.
    The older clusters (like the E46 one) use alot of analog signals which are very hard on the Arduino to recreate (performance drops)
    With the new E90 setup we went from 40+ wires on the E46 to 4 wires(!) on the E90.
    That shows what CanBus does in your vehicle. Ofcourse I will show a small demo and you can check our previous progress in my previous posts!



    I can tell the E90 cluster works wayyyy better than the E46 one and can be made as realistic as possible if we can get more values out of beam and not be restricted to the maximum of outgauge :)

    Any questions I will answer.
     
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  2. Diamondback

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    Nice project :)
    It's fairly easy to create your own little lua file that sends all the required data via UDP instead of relying on the outgauge data. Feel free to contact me if you need help with that :)
     
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  3. Master0wn3r

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    I will send you a message.
     
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