If you know anything about Controls is an engineer help me urgent

I have this task to do soon so if you have knowledge of controls your help would be appreciated.

So, you know the HKS camp? Or any of those LCD displays that display lots of vital stats of a car?

I need to make one of those.


So I ran through a list of possibilities. FPGA is too expensive, thinking of some kind of microcontroller. I don't have any experience nor really know anything about microcontrollers other than that I have constructed a microprocessor from an FPGA before and have some understanding that I need to buy a PIC programmer which is pretty expensive, and then the actual chips which are pretty cheap.


So yeah, I am doing this for a solar car. I need to take in a bunch of analog signals from various sensors, as well as driver input, and digitally convert into a format I can input into an LCD. Thus, I also need to need to know about the standard for LCD monitors, if there is a single IEEE standard or something, and how to attach pins on my microcontroller to the LCD wire inputs.

Also, does a microcontroller have an internal clock signal or do I need some kind of crystal to general one?

Thanks,
Ambert