Kivy Showcase: Automotive / race car telemetry application

[Brent Picasso]

Our Race car telemetry system, RaceCapture/Pro uses Kivy as it's primary application for dashboard, configuration and soon - data analysis.

One of our users published a couple of great videos showcasing the app on android and desktop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na8CIRPcJi0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBX17cBe37s

Huge thanks to the Kivy team for creating an amazing, comprehensive cross platform framework!

Info on the system, for context: 

http://www.autosportlabs.com/racecapturepro-2/

http://www.race-capture.com

-Brent Picasso

Autosport Labs

[ZenCODE]

Awesome stuff. Really impressive.Well done and thanks for sharing ;-)

[David Aldrich]

Looks really good.  Can you give any tips on how to make Kivy gauges like those you use for your instruments?

Best regards

David

[Brent Picasso]

Hi David,

Actually, we used a custom font to render the gauge. We made a rendering of all of the gauge segments, added it to a custom font, and then displayed the appropriate character.  You can see how we did it in the source here:

https://github.com/autosportlabs/RaceCapture_App/blob/master/autosportlabs/racecapture/views/dashboard/widgets/fontgraphicalgauge.py

Only drawback is that font rendering on Kivy is relatively slow - it doesn't seem to fully leverage hardware acceleration as other graphical components. I switched it to flipping textures, but that ended up consuming much memory.

-Brent

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Brent Picasso

Autosport Labs

Technology for Race and Street

[David Aldrich]

Thanks for your reply. Very interesting.

-David