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Learn how to create the DIGIFIZ - digital dashboard from a classic VW Golf using Nextion display.
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[@tommcdonald3772]

This channel is so underrated... thank you so much for this! I have an AE86 and they had a digital cluster that was an option in japan and it would be cool to bring that back but in a more updated way.

[@phoenixwright3068]

You have what?!?

[@upir_upir]

Thank you for your comment, but I will ask the same question - do you have AE86 with the JDM digital dash option?

[@martinpohl2383]

1:52 "no circles" *vw logo*: am i a joke to you?

[@upir_upir]

Ok ok, I mean, no circle gauges 😀

[@mrpappa4105]

upir! Your way of covering EVERY step in these video tutorials is perfect. The tempo is perfect and every viewer imaginable question you cover. Great work again, thanks from Sweden again.

[@upir_upir]

Thank you for your nice comment, I´m glad you like it and find it useful!

[@CallanChristensen]

I thought the layout was a modern reimagining until @2:22 . What a timeless design!

[@upir_upir]

It is. This design aged very nicely.

[@WestBerlinCustoms]

I love these projects and videos! Very well explained and alsways related to a special usecase. There are a lot of different usecases as well - for example race cars or restomods. In combination with a relay board and the arduino this is a very powerful solution. Thanks for scripting, filming and posting all these videos! 🙌😉👍

[@upir_upir]

Thank you for your nice comment, I´m glad you like it and I really appreciate your nice words!

[@JimnyVR5]

Awesome! So many free tools out there... imagine doing this even 5 years ago Next video: Read your cars CAN bus and send values to the display :)

[@upir_upir]

Thank you. I agree about the tools, it’s great there are so many free options now. And yes, can bus/obdii will be next.

[@Dylan_Lanckman]

@@upir_upir I actually have all tools ready for an OBDII reader onto an ESP32, I've just been lacking the courage to do it since there's so little documentation on similar projects.

[@FrankP83]

​@@upir_upir Omg, i can't see hour!I work on CAN stuff, this can be super useful 😮

[@nyfaz]

@@upir_upir Already reading and display can bus from MaxxECU with Arduino, MCP2515, rotary encoder and 128x32 oled. Looking forward to a more professional solution ;). Thank you for your content.

[@mrpappa4105]

Oh i forgot, i spotted there was something offset with the X&Y, thought it was not 16:9 would never guessed "not square pixels", learned again from upir, thanks.

[@upir_upir]

When I have rewatched the video, it actually seems that the 5" display is stretched. Again, this is hard to see with this design, but it was driving me crazy with standard round gauges.

[@johnchefnet]

Your videos are some of the best in my book! Easy to follow and cover the required details. Hope to implement the concept in my van project, thank you. Keep them coming!

[@upir_upir]

Thank you for your comment, I´m glad you like my projects!

[@afroaliens]

Oh man... my old Golf Country needs this... (not at all!)

[@D.Feenstra]

Yes it does, because cool!

[@upir_upir]

I´m sure it needs to have it!

[@colingale]

For those that dont want to pay Nexiton display prices but want one of these then look at the Elecrow series, it uses the same LVGL backend and opensource system.

[@upir_upir]

Just a small correction - the Nextion display does not use LBGL backend. Other than that, yes, Elecrow displays are surely a good choice, but the learning curve would be most likely more steep.

[@pkf4124]

This channel is worth more than you know.

[@upir_upir]

I´m glad you think that, I´m happy where this is all going, but it will probably take a while until I will turn it into my "job".

[@cliffbryans3471]

I only recently found this channel and always look forward to the new videos. I Would love to do something like this for my CRX.

[@upir_upir]

Thank you for your nice comment, and good luck with your project!

[@964cuplove]

Your projects are outstanding and the videos are trudeln great… I think I really need to try one, but it will probably be a round extra gauge anyway - chapeau for your work !!!

[@upir_upir]

Thank you for your nice words, I’m glad you like it!

[@BeatTheD3viL]

Thank you. Looking forward to the follow up on this

[@upir_upir]

Thanks, next part will be hopefully soon!

[@k0nr4d3k]

With every new video I am more and more excited, excellent job man. This is exactly what my mk2 needs! Subscribed now!

[@upir_upir]

Perfect, that´s great to hear. Thank you for your comment.

[@fyndssdev]

Bro you deserve far more recognition

[@upir_upir]

Thank you, I´m glad you think that!

[@fyndssdev]

@@upir_upir I have being following you for a while! Your really inspired me to make stuff of my own really. Many thanks from your only moroccan subscriber

[@MathewMaher]

❤❤❤❤❤❤ This is EXACTLY what I needed for my friends’ Scirocco project Can’t wait to see how to connect this to an Arduino

[@upir_upir]

Cool. Is it a new one or the classic one?

[@MathewMaher]

@@upir_upir Classic. 198x Mk2

[@MathewMaher]

@@upir_upirClassic Mk2, 1987. In theory, couldn’t you make multiple versions of the cluster and cycle through them with an invisible button? Like making a classic gauge, this digital version, a MK3 style, etc and cycle through them with an if statement?

[@MathewMaher]

@@upir_upirin the same prospect, it would be easy to swap from KPH to MPH and Celsius to Fahrenheit

[@saftu835]

such a gem of a channel !! keep up the hard work :)

[@upir_upir]

Thank you for your nice comment, I really appreciate it!

[@vasekkrcmar9808]

Really nice video. I always like to watch your projects, because they are really easy to understand even though they are advanced ones! Regarding those two Nextion displays: Would you be able to create a short video, where you show/discuss the screen visibility/readibility on sunlight and slight shade? I would appreciate that, as I am planning to DIY a motorcycle dash with datalogger for my track bike. Kind of stuck on display selection, microcontroler and programing platform at the moment (Nextion + anything, IPS panel + RPI, IPS panel + ESP + LVGL or TFT_eSPI, etc).

[@bimokayoba]

Thank you for explaining the steps, I learnt a lot ♥

[@upir_upir]

Thank you, I´m glad you like it!

[@FrankP83]

I've seen some displays on Aliexpress that has the CAN availability with ESP32S3, and support LVGL...could be super super super nice to see something with LVGL implemenation 😃

[@upir_upir]

Yep, I do plan to test some of those LVGL screens hopefully soon.

[@SB-vb8ch]

Very cool & excellent explanation. I'd like to do a UR quattro style display with some extra data values so this project is gold dust! Thank you.

[@upir_upir]

Thank you! Do you have UR quattro? I actually would like to recreate that digital dashboard, but those are very rare and hard to find.

[@TechnicNerdAT]

nice project! im making something similar but with raspberry pi 5 and ts-dash

[@upir_upir]

Thank you. Your project sounds really cool. What ECU are you using?

[@alpertatkan874]

Thanks, very well explained and super informative 🎉

[@upir_upir]

Thank you, I’m glad it was useful!

[@KawichasTeam-eb1uk]

❤ congratulations! That's a great project. Question, can the project be exported to the 10 inch display as well?

[@upir_upir]

Thank you! You will need to resize the graphics first. I do plan to record a second video with a theme updated to that screen.

[@NavySturmGewehr]

Thank you thank you!

[@upir_upir]

You are welcome!

[@UberWagen]

I literally just bought the DWIN 7" to do a digifiz dash hahah. I know nextions write instructions when updating graphics can cause it to be laggy.

[@upir_upir]

Perfect, what car are you planning to mount this into? Nextion displays are not slow because of the instructions. They are slow because the used CPU is underpowered for such a big display.

[@UberWagen]

@upir_upir '87 Scirocco that I 1.8T swapped. Plan on using OBD2 for most of the instrumentation, save fuel level, oil press and oil temp. I'm going to try to combine digifiz and the new ford gt graphics, similar layouts, at an attempt for a modern digifiz. There was a video and an article Neil Gardner wrote a while back about his Nextion display in a car he built. Something to do with how they handle graphic updates from the SD card. Anyway, very cool project and great job on the graphics, you nailed it.

[@jononame8915]

Seriously awesome. I finally have the money to do this

[@upir_upir]

Cool, good luck with your project!

[@strydknaffla7910]

Upir I love you, you have given me ~ideas~

[@upir_upir]

Cool, good luck with your projects!

[@rohanramachandra9835]

Aspect ratio of the 5 inch one feels compressed

[@upir_upir]

Funnily enough, I feel the same when those two displays are next to each other. Even when I know that the 7 inch is the one that’s wrong.

[@AK-vx4dy]

Interesting device for some one who don't program or don't want to bother with assembling. I made simillar screen looks in python using pygame on Raspbery PI 2 or 3. Also some sort of PLC like logic and tcp communication also in Python.

[@upir_upir]

Sounds like a cool project. Do you have some screenshots/videos to show?

[@AK-vx4dy]

@@upir_upir I should have, tell me how find contact to you. Buuut aesthetically my thing is ashamed to exist near thing you make or show😱

[@upir_upir]

I would love to see it anyway! :) My email is utuber.upir(at)gmail.com, thank you!

[@user9z6c7x8g6t]

Man, you are a genius

[@upir_upir]

Thank you!

[@Thomas-A159]

Respekt! Sehr gut umgesetzt 👍👍

[@upir_upir]

Thank you!

[@rmyc]

I built a gtr gauges using them when it first came out 7yrs ago

[@upir_upir]

Cool, do you have any videos of that project? I would love to see it!

[@rmyc]

@@upir_upir are you on Instagram I don't know how to send vids here

[@upir_upir]

Could you please send it to me to utuber.upir(at)gmail.com? Thank you very much!

[@IngeBall]

Oldschool Golf 😍

[@upir_upir]

Do you have one?

[@IngeBall]

If you mean a Digifiz no but I have owned a couple of Golfs, Mk1 and 2. I miss all of them 😔

[@upir_upir]

I miss all of my old cars :)

[@Dink10828]

Having tried both displays. As someone who only knows a basic amount of electronics. I found the nextion display had a more polished software and an easier to get something working, but the colour of the display to be terrible, on the other hand the dwin display look very nice and seem to update very quickly, but the software is not the best and is lacking on memory (3Mb of 16Mb just for a font file). There are hints that the memory can be upgraded but absolutely 0 information on what is needed (suspect some spi flash of some sort).

[@upir_upir]

I fully agree. Nextion displays are easy to use, but the screen quality is not so great. DWIN displays have great screen quality and speed, but the software is very hard to use. There are intelligent displays that are simple to use and have a good screen quality - for example ones from company Display Visions, but those are not cheap. There are at least a few of the other manufacturers of intelligent displays, like Stone, which I haven´t used yet. As for your question about the memory for DWIN displays - I will cover expanding memory in one of my future videos.

[@Dink10828]

​@upir_upir I can see the footprints for the ICs on the rear of the dwin display, but not sure what is needed. Even a bump upto 64Mb would be enough to make something useful with the need to have uncompressed images, so you don't get artifacts on the display.

[@bobimnottellin362]

Why does his dash have the Canadian maple leaf in the top right corner? Ohhhhhhhhhh....sorry.

[@upir_upir]

Just to confuse viewers :)

[@pacsam6369]

What about Proculus displays? Can you please make a video where you do a "universal" dashboard? Thanks!

[@upir_upir]

I haven´t heard about the Proculus displays yet. I have quickly checked the website, and they look very similar to Nextion displays. Do you know if there is any advantage of using the Proculus displays instead? Thanks!

[@pacsam6369]

@@upir_upirThanks for the reply. Im trying to do an infotainment/diagnostic display for my Renault Clio 2 RS and I stumbled across this brand via Reddit. The main "feature" is that they are way cheaper😅

[@upir_upir]

From a quick look, it looks like they are also using TN display panels - just like Nextion. For anything car-related, I would suggest trying to find displays with IPS screens instead - like the ones from DWIN. Those also have much higher brigtness. Nextion displays are dim and the colors are not so great.

[@DominoSixO]

Just curious, do you have a toy/device to extract hex from OBD1 from 99 VW T4 ? I want to extract the data use the hex to map via arduino and display the data on a similar display.

[@nathanchalecki4842]

I bought this display for use on my motorbike. It brightness is not high enough for a dash

[@upir_upir]

Yes, as mentioned in the video, those screens are great for testing, but for a real-world usage, I would switch to something like DWIN screens. They have high brightness.

[@milk16vman]

can you make for opel kadett gsi

[@upir_upir]

Definitely! That digital dashboard cool.

[@tijojose6858]

Can you please make a video with squareline studio and lvgl

[@upir_upir]

Yep, that’s definitely on my todo list.

[@MrKingChannel1]

how can i connect this with obd2 to my car ?

[@upir_upir]

I will cover that in the next video.

[@le3lux]

can't wait so so it using real info from a car

[@upir_upir]

Thank you, hopefully soon!

[@PROJETO158]

amigo, esse display poderia ser usado para criação de um steam deck ???

[@upir_upir]

Sure. Do you mean the version where there are physical buttons laid over the display?

[@PROJETO158]

@@upir_upir +/- isso, botoes com alguma imagem de fundo, uns para cada função, tipo um streamdeck mesmo, eu falei o nome errado antes, peço desculpas

[@upir_upir]

Yes, I would like to try something like that!

[@AmesisProject]

🤩😍

[@MauriceF13]

thats so nice😉

[@upir_upir]

Thank you!

[@conorbrady1839]

Fr I don't know what the problem is?

[@ShiroiAkumaSama]

Everything is stretched a bit the square is a bit rectangular

[@MathewMaher]

@@ShiroiAkumaSamaHonestly, if you compensate for the stretch in the design, I feel like it really wouldn’t be a big issue

[@upir_upir]

I have tried that (compensating the stretch in the design), and it´s not worth the work. Plus, you also need to count the fonts - and that´s not so simple as resizing the image.

[@MathewMaher]

@@upir_upir dang ☹️👎

[@giuseppedesantis1604]

how can works this with the sensor form car??

[@Nukes2all]

I've never built or worked on something like this, but all this info can be pulled from the OBDII port, I imagine there is a plug that connects to or intercepts the port and updates information from that.

[@giuseppedesantis1604]

@@Nukes2all yes , this Is not a bad idea , but on a gtd golf mk2 , hhm It has'not the obd ahah , Is free electronic, old good school

[@WestBerlinCustoms]

@@giuseppedesantis1604 Not an issue at all - it takes just a little bit more wiring to read all the neccessary sensors directly and feed the arduino with some voltage values to display.

[@giuseppedesantis1604]

@@WestBerlinCustoms i think that the most problem Is the couter of km .

[@WestBerlinCustoms]

@@giuseppedesantis1604 You might be right. The best way would be an inductive collection on a drive shaft or at the hub / wheel. In combination with the wheel circumfence speed and distance are just a calculation based on impulses.