It's hilarious seeing these screens, specially the GRID one sold for 400€ without shipping, all using the same 50€ VoCore display, some 5€ arduino based pcb, 1€ worth of leds and still dependent of SimHub... If you like to make your own projects and have a printer just make one yourself. Multiple designs shared around or design one yourself. I made myself a perfect Cosworth ICD replica and it's exactly the same as all of that for like 60€. A Bosch DDU5 replica doesn't seem too hard to do other than a 10€ laser cut Lexan sheet. I understand there's people not looking for too much of a hassle and purchase everything plug and play, but a benefit margin of ~600% in the case of the GRID is absolutely crazy for me. Nice review as always Dan, appreciate the effort showing the internals of these products!

The old phone option is always a good cheap option too

15:00 where it makes sense to me is unless your monitor is low, with the wheel covering quite a bit of it, the camera has to be set unnaturally in order to see the monitor's Dash. Or if you're playing RF2 where the Dash shows you basically nothing.😅

Short update: Both dashboards you buy now are actually fully CE/FCC certified 👍🏻

I ended up buying a USBD480 LCD screen a few years ago for around $90 USD and had a mount 3D printed for $35 USD. Works perfect with SimHub and zDashboard and works off just a single USB connection.

Appreciate the heads up for Yoep's dashboards 👍🏼🔥

thank you for the video! Great job

I went with the DS1-S from simcore as I wanted a screen without leds. very happy with it.

For sure you don't NEED one but I think its just so more immersive. I use the Grid DDU5 and love it.

DDUs are really helpful if you drive formula style cars as they don’t have the dash that gt cars have if you fully remove the steering wheel from the screen

RESPECT FOR THE HONEST REVIEWS ! 💯🏁👍

JRT’s dash overlay is a cheap and easy to use alternative. Lots of configuration possible. There’s also a setting which automatically hides the dash when you’re not in the car.

i love all the microcontroller chat Dan - i build eurorack modules and use them all the time... :)

Sim Racing Addict makes better dash options for same price as the lower priced unit.

I specifically like driving cars like the Porsche 718 GT4 or McLaren 720s because of the onscreen dash. I used a dash like these at one point in time for F1…..but as you said they are annoying anytime you are not using them as they block the screen.

Where can I find these dash layouts

not only that you cannot move the replay controls, you don’t get any live data for tyres on external dashboards in iracing, in 2022… But as long as you can mow the gras and gain time with it, this “simulation” is seen as the holy grail by the most…

Considered a display screen but determined it was redundant with the in game dash if playing in cockpit view and prob unneccessarily takes up pc resources. Nevertheless, I appreciate the review!

I use a old phone as a dash. Is usefull when you got a smaler screen where the in game dash isnt fully show.

I’d like one, and I’m a VR user! 😆

were can i buy the components to build my own. im trying to build my own simulator. any help would be greatly appreciated.

I do it with and OLD Tablet and a LED strip glued at the monitor :D

400$ for a 35$ screen and plastic case xD

Nice tomato plant is what i see, review is cool.

If I could program the dash with custom data that I actually wanted, rather than just a duplication on what's on the UI, sure. Other than "the look", never got the point of a dash that wasn't fully customizable as a mini third screen with the related software.

What are they used for?

I will always rather have Mini USB over Micro USB 100% yes USB-C is best but Micro is trach Compared to Mini & C for real world durability

This i live 🤩🤩🤩🤩

They all ship globaly??

Nice video! :-) anybody know of a spotter a little like kapps? so you can see approximate placement of the car on your side. Would be cool :)

To be honest I've never seen the point of these as the sims we drive already have the correct dash for the car, RaceRoom excepted, but there's still a dash. Also if you're a VR user like I tend to be then they're absolutely useless. And this is a personal thing - having used the Thrustmaster SF1000 formula rim, my poor old eyes couldn't focus quickly enough on the inbuilt screen when looking away from the main monitor. These are probably great for younger people, but the older you get the more inflexible your eyes get. Just to quickly mention that this doesn't happen in VR as everything you see is at a fixed focal length, therefore your eyes don't need to refocus.

Why isnt there a virtual ddu?

Cool, so you void your warranty when you wipe the fingerprints away from the inside

400 euro is really overpriced imo.

INEXPENSIVE!

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极具性价比的模拟赛车游戏外设，看这里

Why does my comment keep getting deleted? Nothing controversial… cell phone + full simhub + design your own dash in a few hours.

Wo FUCK

I love your chanal - but please trim your moustache. Yoy´re such a pretty german. Regards "The beard Dane😉

I dont get what you guys are saying, with the correct camera height and correct field of vieuw you dont see your dash parameters, so i think these displays are useful

tl;dr; no, you don’t NEED a dedicated dash, but boy, you’d just WANT one! 😅🤘👍