CANbus to analog gauge converter - Does this exist? Anyone want one?

[digitalsolo]

Hey all,

So I'm designing a bunch of electronics for my '65 Mustang project, and one of the things I've been working on is a bunch of custom CANbus stuff. Specifically , I am making a BCM setup similar to an InfinityBox, but more tailored to what I want and about 1/10th the price. Along with this I'm building a gauge display that reads CAN data from my ECU (AEM Infinity) and shows it on some OLED gauges.

This got me thinking about my Speedhut gauges (analog sensors) and it wouldn't be too much effort to output signals to them as well, so that the ECU ran them based on its local data. Does anyone make something like this? I'm just curious if it's worth my time to make this flexible enough for other people to use it (it could be made to run factory gauges based on CAN data from an ECU for example) or if someone else already has something like this available?

All my stuff is open source, I'm not trying to start a business or anything, just helping out the community. Here is the code for my current OLED gauge display (still a work in progress, though fully functional): https://github.com/analoghan/CAN_Gauges



Right now I'm planning on adding some warning LED outputs and probably a tie in to my CANbus BCM hardware to be able to display things like brake light status, etc. for troubleshooting to the gauge code. I'm still debating adding the analog gauge control output to it (hence the reason for this post).

Thoughts?