Porsche Wind Deflector with Edge Lighting [from CAD, prototyping to finish]

[maytag]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

Hey SkyBreaker Club!



Just an Express Update on where we stand and where we are going next. In short: I have finalized the BOM, ordered and received the parts & ICs needed to put a prototype together, measured the current and freq, and got most of the C code tested and ready. We are full mode RGB at 168Mhz! Next: Get the schematics sorted, route a PCB for the controller and modify the controller's enclosure to house the new kit (wiring, strain-relief boots, ect etc).



Following the DIY theme, here goes some visuals of how its done at my end (between coffees and cheese, obviously!):







^ RGB leds are fabulous, couldn't more be happier how this turned out. Since those are custom they fit perfectly

within the mounting heat-sink also.







^ ICs, breakout pcbs, and passive many other good stuff (not shon in this pic). All goes to show how those sort of

prototypes start-up from ground zero, to a functional product.







^ Breadboard all wired, decoupled supply if coming from the debugger so no fuss here. Just getting the ICs ready

so we can write the code for them.







^ Writing code, some nasty time consuming stuff, particularly the SPI Flash IC that we'll use to store colors in memory.







^ Sniffing SPI traffic on the scope. All about clocking and piping the right bits & bytes streams to and from those ICs.

Features of today's ICs are pretty wicked and advanced, so are their precise timing requirements :/





Long live Coffee! I'll update as soon as new development comes in!

Dooooood...... sorta blowin' my mind right now. ;-)

I LOVE what some people know how to do!

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[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by maytag

I LOVE what some people know how to do!

Man if only you'd see how I do my blueberry pancakes you'd be in for a serious blast, much worthy of a DIY, one day, maybe, let's see

Thanks Maytag, glad to hear you like to see those sort of diy'ers. I'll try to get those visuals and more of all that good stuff coming your way

[Wallace River]

Originally Posted by maytag

Dooooood...... sorta blowin' my mind right now. ;-)

I LOVE what some people know how to do!

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I'm with Maytag, it just makes my head spin to see this kind of genius. I'm just glad you use your genius for good instead of evil, Fred :P

[BruceH]

Yep, it’s always something! At least you were able to get in. Hopefully this virus will be figured out soon, I have no doubt that it will.

[Nine8Six]

Hey fellas, just a quick note to let you know that we are taking a break for a few weeks. I'm at a friend mansion (a 16x10 meter old wooden cabin to be precise) in Inner Mongolia just a few miles from the outer Mongolia border with my wife Helen and the dogs. We drove the whole thing last week and just starting to get used to how-things-works-here (like fetching wood seventeen times per day to get heating going and the cooker working :/ ).

Not going to reply to this message as I have to drive 45min on iced roads just to get a signal and access to wifi. So... back to my ice fishing later today... we've been feeding on rainbow trouts, Lays' Salt & Vinegar crisps and Coca Cola since 4 days now lol

Let you guys know when we're back in Shanghai and resuming work, should be soon as the situation seems to be leveling down now, sort of...

All the best to you all!

[maytag]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

Hey fellas, just a quick note to let you know that we are taking a break for a few weeks. I'm at a friend mansion (a 16x10 meter old wooden cabin to be precise) in Inner Mongolia just a few miles from the outer Mongolia border with my wife Helen and the dogs. We drove the whole thing last week and just starting to get used to how-things-works-here (like fetching wood seventeen times per day to get heating going and the cooker working :/ ).

Not going to reply to this message as I have to drive 45min on iced roads just to get a signal and access to wifi. So... back to my ice fishing later today... we've been feeding on rainbow trouts, Lays' Salt & Vinegar crisps and Coca Cola since 4 days now lol

Let you guys know when we're back in Shanghai and resuming work, should be soon as the situation seems to be leveling down now, sort of...

All the best to you all!

Hang in there!

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[mavis.d]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

Hey fellas, just a quick note to let you know that we are taking a break for a few weeks. I'm at a friend mansion (a 16x10 meter old wooden cabin to be precise) in Inner Mongolia just a few miles from the outer Mongolia border with my wife Helen and the dogs. We drove the whole thing last week and just starting to get used to how-things-works-here (like fetching wood seventeen times per day to get heating going and the cooker working :/ ).

Not going to reply to this message as I have to drive 45min on iced roads just to get a signal and access to wifi. So... back to my ice fishing later today... we've been feeding on rainbow trouts, Lays' Salt & Vinegar crisps and Coca Cola since 4 days now lol

Let you guys know when we're back in Shanghai and resuming work, should be soon as the situation seems to be leveling down now, sort of...

All the best to you all!

Sounds like a great idea, enjoy

[maytag]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

Hey fellas, just a quick note to let you know that we are taking a break for a few weeks.

Fred, we want ya healthy, safe, and sound.
But I see you getting pinged about the wheel center-caps.... I jsut want to bump this thread back to the top so you don't start thinking those center caps are higher priority. hahaha.


(I'ma send you a photo of my new project with your center caps though!! )

[TTGator]

That's crazy! Best of luck over there!

[TTGator]

Waiting and ready!

[particlewave]

I might be ready to part with mine for a trade + $60ish.

[Starter986]

Originally Posted by particlewave

I might be ready to part with mine for a trade + $60ish.

PM'ing you.

[TypeA]

I had one of these for my 986 (logo and lettering in amber) and miss it since getting my 987. Know Fred is on hiatus and may be a while before he's back in his lab again creating works of art but has he done one for a 987?

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by TypeA

....done one for a 987?

Haven't. But can't see what stops us from working on this together. Let's see if I can get my hands on a spare kit locally. I'll look on my side but if you know of any readily advertised F.S. do let me know and I'll import this over. -or- if you're happy to send over your existing kit then let's do that and I'll ship it back along with the engineered replacement (free, ofc!).

Originally Posted by Cunningr

I like design you can add me to the list. Very subtle blue lighting would be nice.

Time to get the balls rolling again, change mind and entertain so to speak. This covid-s-hity-19 changed quite a few plans on my side, which I won't go into details now as I feel each and everyone of us have their own crap to deal with.. whether that is business, finance, work, logistics, family, etc... my issues are much smaller than some of others', so... for later.

Where were we? Ah, yes, the controller... let me finish this prototype and sign it off, so we can move on to getting these kits laser'ed and ready for the spring/summer season

[TypeA]

Originally Posted by Nine8Six

Haven't. But can't see what stops us from working on this together. Let's see if I can get my hands on a spare kit locally. I'll look on my side but if you know of any readily advertised F.S. do let me know and I'll import this over. -or- if you're happy to send over your existing kit then let's do that and I'll ship it back along with the engineered replacement (free, ofc!).

Sounds good, theyre pretty easy to come by on the used market so I ordered one off fleabay for $100 (hopefully its in good shape). Shoot me a PM (or reply to the PM I sent you a couple weeks ago) with your mailing address and Ill send you 2 kits, send me back the best of the two and the other you can keep.

[Nine8Six]

Originally Posted by TypeA

send me back the best of the two and the other you can keep.

They'll both be refitted! probably going to get that extra one priced eventually so pass on your paypal addy and I'll void the shipping cost on those. Pm sent.

[GroovyCoovy]

These are awesome. I want 1 !!

[BRAN]

TADA, welcome back, glad you survived so far!

[Traco]

Great to see things back online.

If you can ship to Ireland put my name on one!

Stay safe

[Nine8Six]

So... we've agreed to have:

1) RGB Colors & Brightness
2) Brake Light Signal
3) Some fun...

Spent the day yesterday thinking how the HMI would work out. Thought of analog buttons but then quickly realized we are in year 2020(I think?) and buttons where, like, 1969 style user interaction. Got in-touch with an old display supplier today and asked whether they had small displays engineered for cold weather "with capacitive touch". To my surprise he said he had them in all sizes (lol). So had him sending me the dwg to see if I can fit this bad boy into a relatively small enclosure (hand-held) and I'm quite happy with the size, not much bigger than what we had before anyway (picture a mini-iPhone thingy).

The display is 240X340 resolution, 2.4", capacitive touch (i.e not the old resistive style needing a silly stylus), 16-bit, writes at 60ns (!!!), -20~70dC spec'ed.

My question to you guys is this:

Now that we anticipate to have a (half)modern controller, "is there anything else that you would like to have in this thing apart from RGB and some fun?". I'm thinking developers in mind as I know a whole lot of you folks would love to thinker with this so I just need to know if you need some extra bells & whistles in the kit e.g. K-Line (aka make your own Durametric or performance map up-loader), Roof-controller, Jet-Propulsion On-Switch, some extra GPIOs for .....

Open for both brilliant & silly ideas, please chime before I hit the schematic design!




^ Just a quick CAD perspective. Trying to gauge the PCB size we'll be given to play this out.