Completed Vehicle Lighting Controller
I’ve finally finished my lighting controller and am quite happy with the results. During this process, I learned quite a few things about how I should design and program any…
Vehicle Lighting Controller Update
Before I had left Castlegar, I wanted to have finished this little project of mine; however, due to unforeseen events that took priority or just made it literally impossible to…
A Brief Dive Into CAN Bus
During the past two days, I've had just enough free time that I've been able to test out some CAN bus, GMLAN sniffing, and experimentation – I've also discovered how…
Vehicle Lighting Controller
One of the first things I did to the car was to install under-dash lighting. The actual LED strips weren't anything special; they're aqua in colour and fade in and…
Stepper Motor Test
There’s nothing quite like experimenting with some electronics on a quiet afternoon day. Today I decided to try driving a stepper motor with a simple microcontroller; it wasn’t very long…
The SmartHorn Is Complete
It didn't take very long for me to get around to developing the board for this little project of mine. I designed the board layout in EAGLE, then printed it…
SmartHorn Prototype
I had always thought it'd be fun to create something that controls a vehicle's horn. This little thought of mine quickly motivated me to experiment and see if I could,…
Arcade Machine
For a while now, I've wanted to build something special; it wasn't too long before I decided to create a full-sized arcade machine. I found some basic plans on the…