Custom Mobiflight Part 2 - Initial design consideration

You've already built a few cockpit controls using MobiFlight, but now you want a bigger challenge: Creating your own custom device. In this tutorial series we will work on a digital engine monitor for our GA airplanes.

This is the second lesson and we will cover:
I. Gather reference data for your device
II. Identify data sources to populate your device
III. Choose hardware: display and microprocessor
IV. Plan of Attack

Links:
First episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMlO8yEWVOU
HubHop (MF Variable database) https://hubhop.mobiflight.com/
MSFS Simulation Variables (Simvars) https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Programming_Tools/SimVars/Simulation_Variables.htm
Simvar Watcher: https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Samples_And_Tutorials/Samples/VisualStudio/SimvarWatcher.htm
GI 275 manual: https://static.garmin.com/pumac/190-02246-01_h.pdf