I want to take the outputs from the various sensors of an older engine (1960's... pre CANBUS) and display them on a computer screen.
If I understand correctly, I think I need the following:
1) physical connections of the engine sensors to:
2) an analogue to digital converter.
3) a physical way to get the digital signals into the PC. (USB or serial)
4) software code that will translate the digital signals to something a computer can understand and present on a display
5) a user-interface that will allow for organizing, labeling and adjusting the various readouts.
Everyone I talk to makes this sound ridiculously simple. Comments like "just buy a $20 A/D" are like telling me to buy a light bulb when I need to read in a darkened room... hardly what I would call an end-to-end solution.
I expect it's all shelf-ware, but I expect also that there are a lot of wrong decisions to make.
Thanks in advance.
Ohhh... and I want it simple.
If I understand correctly, I think I need the following:
1) physical connections of the engine sensors to:
2) an analogue to digital converter.
3) a physical way to get the digital signals into the PC. (USB or serial)
4) software code that will translate the digital signals to something a computer can understand and present on a display
5) a user-interface that will allow for organizing, labeling and adjusting the various readouts.
Everyone I talk to makes this sound ridiculously simple. Comments like "just buy a $20 A/D" are like telling me to buy a light bulb when I need to read in a darkened room... hardly what I would call an end-to-end solution.
I expect it's all shelf-ware, but I expect also that there are a lot of wrong decisions to make.
Thanks in advance.
Ohhh... and I want it simple.