G37Sam

i wouldnt do that on a G37

da mayor

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it'll be interesting. i'm suprising no one tried the knight rider lights yet either

ONEighty

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Dude... GOOD LUCK, sounds like an amazing project, I certainly wouldn't mind you taking my mod and making it even better. In fact, if you need any help, hit me up, but I'm no where near sophisticated with LED's and controlling them as you are, I used the most basic ways of installing this Iron-man, w/e makes my job quick, efficient, and looks good, but trust me... I know theres TONS of room for improvement. What you are trying to do is way beyond my imagination, because I know how much wiring and programing something like that takes.

Once I move into my shop, I will do everything I can to improve my LED mods for my customers, and I hope by then you've figured out a way to master this mod so the rest of the forum can enjoy something like it.

Good luck again, and keep us posted.

Feel free to use any of my pictures for reference.

J.Oh

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^good man.
cant wait till something develops from this and then maybe x-vert could install for users not wanting to DIY hell i know i wouldnt mind color fading led's

Xander

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that's a pretty sweet idea.

Why don't you try some rgb led's? You can get them on one chip and you can use a pre made rgb controller or make one yourself.You could also use 3-4 rgb controllers and relays that run when you need them.

Vexamus

Dude, thanks for the encouragement. That means a lot. And like I said, I'm keeping everything, both the hardware design and the software open source. For all to enjoy. I think it would be cool for you to incorporate this as an option for those that don't want to diy. I'll be in touch!

MaxToTheG37

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sounds like a good idea... but super hard to do.... good luck on this!!

Will blinking on and off hurt the life of LEDs? anyone?

Vexamus

Nope, the LED's in your xbox360 face and controllers are all pulse width modulated.. along with the LED's in your alarm clock. That's how you properly get an LED to fade.

B L U E S L A T E

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It'll be sick if you can make the LEDs in the projector shroud to blink when you turn on the turn signal...

J.Oh

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^seriously +1 that would be unique

Vexamus

Or I could make the low output of the relay trigger the light to circle around the projector(fading away like a trail) and then on the high side fade in and out within that time frame. That'd be catchy.

thanks for your ideas, encouragement and enthusiasm.

B L U E S L A T E

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I'll be sick if you can also make a module that fades the tail LED lights...

OMG... I can just see that in my head. hahahahaha

Vexamus

I'm considering including outputs for the tail lights and tail turn signals(converted to LED, I mean seriously infinity, incandescent lights in 2008???).

I'm going to over complicate the hell out of this module and then work back from that. So keep the ideas coming.

Keep in mind, I can use ANY input from the car's sensors or computer as long as I it is transmitted over a wire. My goal actually would be to have this module plug right in between the car's computer and the harness. And create an entire harness to be installed into the car to facilitate this.

Some of my stumbling blocks thus far at this point is interfacing with the computer without pissing it or the engine off. And anytime you're ****ing with inputs and outputs on the security system you risk a breach or exploit in the security system.

What may actually happen is the module will have a separate set of modules that will goin in place of fuses in both interior and exterior fuse boxes, then the fuses will go into the modules all being fed by high temp resistant ribbon wire terminating to a rubberized harness all going to the main module. I haven't chosen a core chip for the control module yet but seeing as how complex it's getting I may be going for more than just logic IC's and more into stand-alone microprocessor/memory/nvram packages. What would be really cool but highly highly unlikely is that once installed you could download presets and patterns off the web and load them into the module using the car's own computer and a CF card. How bad *** would that be?

Igor911

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This sounds pretty cool...I'd be interested to see what happens of this.

Tillyhawk19

i agree with GameDog