Weird Screen inside old VW Beetle Dask

That's a pretty cool idea - the only "gotcha" I can see is the size of the display.

Flexible displays do exist but I doubt they will be available in a size/resolution/pinout to fit your machine. I expect a secondary display might work - the are available with HDMI is a variety of sizes (primarily for Raspberry Pi and similar machines).

I can see a rather cool project there where the speedometer could display the vU (although that might be a bit distracting) or the volume of the overall machine. The odometer (and this is a bit trickier) could display the track number if you were using this as a music station.

How does that sound?

Like your ideas, especially the odometer one.

I also though about creating a mechanical system with 2 actuators to pull out a projector screen from the box, but it might be uncomfortable for the eye, plus placing the  projector so close to the screen will yield a small projection :))). So most likely I will buy a curved 34" screen and "simulate" the glass/screen of the car.

Thanks for the response/ideas !

Yeah, I think it's going to look absolutely incredible. I wish I had the room to be honest, I'd do one myself. 🙂

Thank you! I will get back if you or anyone else is interested with plans, dxfs (for metal laser cuts) and rough plans (project will probably take a couple of months and a lot of wasted sheet metal :D)

Sounds great! But development is often a process of many experiments and a lot of failure. This USB Microphone has led me into some dark corners of my past life. 😉

A lot of virtual hair tearing (it's all gone now so I can't even tear any more out).

But the results - well they are pretty sweet although there is one bugbear that simply won't just "bugbear" off - screening. And it affects different capsules differently... you know, just in case that wasn't already enough of a PITA.

If this thing isn't perfectly screened it has a habit of locking up - which may even be the JFET locking up. One of those little things they don't tell you about when you "do" FETs - you find that one out the hard way. Which, of course, makes it a bit tricky to test incrementally because the whole rig has to be torn down. I'm close but not so close that I can say "anyone can do this". Right now, it's good enough for me but will shortly join the rather large pile of failed attempts... 😉

So I feel that pain but also the glory of creating something (almost) from whole cloth. Sure, we use building blocks but the final creation is ours alone. I really look forward to seeing this done.

I helped a guy with his James Bond supercar (Wet Nellie) - he was replacing the original Lotus Dash with a full video display that mimic the look of the original but could switch into "underwater" mode.

Not the sort of thing I'd want to attempted in a classic supercar but it takes all sorts and I hope he did it.