Nigel first entered the world of automotive journalism in the mid-80s, working for what was then the “bible” of weekly automotive content - Motoring News. Those were the days of tip-tap typewriters, ...

Analog gauges gave way to all manner of fancy electroluminescent and LED gauges in the ’80s, but the trend didn’t last long. It’s only in the last decade or so that LCD digital gauges have really ...

This Arduino based little digital tachometer was originally created for counting the speed of turntables and fidget spinners. There is another application to consider – a rear wheel tachometer for ...

Digital dashboards became popular decades ago. These information era gauge clusters have followed a similar trend to other digital media. When you visualize the difference between the Xbox and the ...

For decades, the gauge cluster of a German car was a thing of functional beauty. Clean design placed an emphasis on legibility above all else. In recent years, however, the rise of LCD screens ...

This digital DIY tachometer for bikes uses two reed switches to get the speed information of the bicycle. The reed switches are installed near the rim of the wheel where permanent magnets pass by. The ...

Legend has it that the Lexus LFA was so sharp, fast, and exotic that its engine overwhelmed any standard analog tachometer, forcing its manufacturer to switch to a digital display instead. And that ...