I used the dashboard through the rest of 2015 and 2016 and it worked great. The hardware was solid and never skipped a beat. The display worked well and the shift light was particularly useful. I was also able to use the exported data to create track videos using RaceRender such as seen here:

However, I sort of hit a wall once the data was collected. I was able to make GPS plots and certain calculations in Excel, but besides screening for low oil pressures and high temps, it left a lot to be desired. A huge part of data analysis is using it to learn where and why you were fast or slow on a given lap. This requires much more advanced displaying and calculation of data to make it easier to pickup the clues and to develop as a driver. The problem is that all of the professional analysis software is locked to their proprietary data formats so there’s no way to use my data with their software.

This led me to eventually abandon my home-brew solution and look into the RaceCapture system from Autosport Labs. It’s a highly customizable, open source solution, that includes solid hardware PLUS pretty decent software. Their platform is growing fast and very receptive to community feedback so what’s not to like? I’ll make a another post with my latest data logging setup.