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.

After some time, I managed to pull off the project. Initially created the wattometer as I initially wanted (with motors, controllers and so on) but it proved to be noisy :))))) too noisy for my taste. So I installed a separate monitor and created an electron app for it with an arduino and a AC measurer (the arduino acts as an ADC, because I already had multiple arduino micros laying around)
This is the end result.

To my eyes, that's a work of art. If you have photos, places like HackaDay have competitions. That's gotta be in the running.

Thank you for the nice compliment. It was a fun and challenging project, I developed a lot of metalworking skills (bought some specific tools even).
Now the next step is for this to become a cluster to monitor an incoming stream from a 4g camera I will set up in the mountains to auto detect wildlife (especially bears)

Now I want to change this and transform this into a gaming PC case.
Probably will mount some fans and transition to some liquid cooling.
But I have no clue where to source the motherboard as it can be as wide as 17cm. It can also be 100cm long :)))).

Please, any suggestions?

Maybe one of the Framework boards? I haven't checked but they're out there and they do some cool stuff. I have one of their laptops and every major part can be swapped out. The board from their mini PC might work, but if you want a gaming PC they do more powerful hardware too. 

Most gaming laptops are nasty and won't come apart well (if at all) but Framework sells its motherboards and graphics cards as separate modules.

Just beware - they're not cheap!

Thanks for the suggestion, I added a post in their community and also emailed the company directly.

Very welcome, I hope they can help!

FWIW, I have one of their mid-level laptops. It's quite well made considering and the parts are made in China so you're on modern production lines, etc. 

I got sick of my cat ruining my laptops (leaping on the keyboard and requiring hugely expensive parts (entire palm-rest) and a lot of work.

If the little s**t jiggers this one (please NO!) then at least it's less than a palm-rest but it's less than a minute to swap out a keyboard or number pad.

AHAHAHAHAH, nice, mine likes to sleep on my laptop.

Regarding the project, I also found this video on YT which seems to be really helpful