Browse > Home / News / 2008 Autoblog Holiday Sweepstakes - Day 7: DashDAQ Series II

2008 Autoblog Holiday Sweepstakes - Day 7: DashDAQ Series II

December 23, 2008

Filed under: Contests

Click above to learn more about what the DashDAQ Series II can do
We’ve reached the final prize of our week’s worth of 2008 Autoblog Holiday Sweepstakes, and we think we’ve saved the best for last. The prize for Day 7 is a DashDAQ Series II valued at $549. If you’re unfamiliar with DashDAQ and what this little box can do, let us enlighten you. The DashDAQ is an open-source, Linux-based computer for you car. Plug it into your OBD-II diagnostic port and the DashDAQ can display your car’s vitals on its 4-inch color touchscreen in five ways: analog gauges, digital gauges, slider bars, graphs or a simulated dashboard. It can diagnose trouble codes; display your fuel economy in real time; record performance data like 0-60, braking and top speed; be a lap timer; measure horsepower and torque (taking a breath)… well, you get the point. There’s not much [...]

continue article > > .