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EV Dashboard & Controls
Driver interface and control systems for a formula-style electric vehicle.
Directed the mechanical and electrical development of the race car's complete driver interface — dashboard, control systems, and brake-light control — the systems a driver depends on every second on track.
- Year
- 2022
- Role
- Electrical Project Lead
- Context
- Northeastern Electric Racing
- Tech stack
- CAN BusArduinoEmbedded CElectromechanical DesignDriver Interfaces
- CAN
- vehicle-wide comms backbone
- 3
- integrated control systems
What it involved
The dashboard integrates vehicle state displays, driver controls, and safety indicators into a single cockpit unit. CAN bus modules on Arduino-class microcontrollers tie the dashboard into the rest of the vehicle's subsystems, providing robust communication between the driver interface, battery management, and motor controllers.