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Originally Posted by Lord Grey
Sudden second thoughts on an LCD-driven gauge pack: What if it dies? That is where you would actually want either discreet components (where one failure doesn't take out the whole thing), or simpler technology to better avoid those failures.
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I'd say LCD's are pretty reliable. How often does your LCD monitor go out?
FWIW, I think this idea is pretty low-tech. The hardest part I think would be translating data from the vehicle to an animation on the widget. People who create widgets for desktops do this all the time for different functions (ie CPU meter/gauge). The technology here is used and proven already, it's just implementing it in a different way.