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With an all-digital display cluster in a conventional car, which is effectively just an LED screen, it’s possible to hack something like this in. Getting a modern center console to cooperate would take some elbow-grease, but is also probably doable.

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LEDs just can’t recreate the glow of Electroluminescent displays…

Edit: although I guess the are digital.

I miss electroluminescence though… It never bothered me the way LED does

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Damn why can’t we have this back?

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Funny that they use green LEDs because blue and white hadn’t been invented yet.

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Isn’t that VFD?

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Yeah I suppose so. I just assumed they were backlit by LEDs. But you learn something new every day!

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…green was so much easier on the eyes; i miss it…

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My eyes are screaming at me at the thought of a blue LED dashboard. My eyes struggle so hard with blue LED lights. I’ve wound up taping over every single blue LED due to this.

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Funnily enough the only example I know of of a blue lit dash was also Nissan circa 1990 or so in their Maximas. Unsure if they were doing other models blue around that time and it was an analog dash with blue back-lighting.

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If I remember correctly Volkswagen had this in the 2000 era as well

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Man… my first car was a Beretta GT and I thought the digital dash was the coolest thing ever. It scrambled one day and was pretty amazing to watch freak out.

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You have any pic of that beauty.

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Man, I wish! This was like…1998 when I got it and we didn’t take nearly as many photos

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Super green!

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