Tag: Turn signals

Last post of 2022

(12/29/2022)

2022 will be remembered as the year I decided to finally tear into this pig. Now to keep the momentum going in 2023!

I finished the LEDs for the red part of the tail light and started working on the animation for the turn signals.

It’s time to pull coolant out of the car. I need to remove the heater core and I don’t have a good way to drain everything in the tight space I’m in. So, I decided to use an old garden hose and a small pump and suck all the coolant out of the engine. And it’s gross looking.

I finally won the battle with this HVAC box. I’m certain someone will email me and tell me that I’m ruining something special. That’s fine. The new setup will be under the hood and I can service it in an afternoon, not a month of afternoons.

Looks like the heater core was leaking anyway. Go figure.

So much more room for activities!

Lights

Like most projects I do, I’m starting from probably the most bizarre angle; taillights. I probably have various ways to justify this, but honestly I like lights. Furthermore I like sequential turn signals. I’ve always wanted a vehicle with a set. When I was younger I used to add turn signals to my bikes and wagon. I often had sequential signals on them. Years ago I was going to make a teardrop trailer and that too was going to have sequential signals. None of that ever panned out, so here we are again with a new project….and sequential turn signals!

This is a spare taillight housing I got off eBay. I gutted it and designed a board in KiCad to hold the LEDs. In later posts I’ll have videos of it operating, but since I’m playing catch up on this blog, I’m trying to do things in somewhat of the order in which they occurred. In this case, the beginning of sequential tail light design.