Arduino powered taillight project.

[tom kish vin. 4357]

I would buy a set!!

[OZ DMC]

Right now, nothing
I haven't got that far with the coding yet. This video is of my first working test of the hardware. I am basically teaching myself to code, and this is been a learning experience.
My goal is to allow easy customization of different animations via a SD card. A set of animations could be designed on a computer with a simple program and then loaded to the taillights with the SD card. You could make your own style for Brakes, turn, parking, startup/sundown, etc.

I have some new parts coming next week, those should give me better control of the LEDs and make more complex animations (and brighter.... that video has the LEDs at about 30% of their potential brightness, even less for the white ones)

the idea has been in my head for years and I have finally started working on it. Not sure how far it will go, I hope to have a car next year sometime, and maybe have a working prototype by DCS 2016
Here are some images I made a long time ago showing what I had in mind.

Sequental brake lights

Sequential turn signal

Startup animation

Like it...

[jgarland79]

I'm working on a similar project that will also use an Arduino compatible device. I'm planning on using the Particle Photon board because it has more memory, and I can re-program it via WiFi without taking it out of the car, or hooking it up to a computer.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13345

Here is my project:
http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?12...-with-RGB-LEDs

[bttws]

Door marker prototype

LED matrix with amber DMC lens on it. Should fit in door fine,but requires cutting the boot, as I am borrowing these lights I cannot test the fit.

Crappy video shows adruino and matrix running on its own. I made a few test animations, in the final version different animations would be triggered by events. I can run 6 of these off a one adruino.
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Animations:
1-up arrows (could be used when door is opening, flipped upside down when closing. Flipped on side for turn signal)
2-All Red (red shows though on amber lens)
3-All Amber (kind of hard to see)
4-All Green (might have some problems going though non faded red lenses)
5-Flash red to amber
6-DMC logo letters
7-DMC 12 scrolling text

-Kevin

[Lwanmtr]

Looking cool. Would love to have this kind of thing

[davidc89]

I like it!

[mr_maxime]

Someone told me I should make something that is almost exactly what you are doing for the taillights. I like the concept, but as some others have pointed out the reliability and brightness of the boards makes me cautious. Something DOT approved with the same function that is mostly plug and play would appeal to me a great deal though.

[Domi]

Amazing, this is a great job

[Justin51982]

Awesome!

[Ron]

Excellent!

You just gotta' add a "It was a Mustang" mode...