The weather hasn't been the greatest for painting, so I will have to go back and fix this up before I call it finished. For now it works, and it gets my dash back together so I don't look like I'm driving a stolen car with wires hanging out everywhere! There is nothing behind those panels now but about 8" of space and some wires for the USB outlet. I wanted to put my CB there, but there just isn't the depth to be had. I also had tried my hand at heating up some polycarbonate to bend/mold it to fit the opening where the ash tray/socket doors were but it did not turn out well at all. If I had an oven, and one of those vacuum tables it would have worked...maybe. Ha-ha!
This is the progress on my DIY Bluetooth module. I have a wiring diagram drawn up and will be running traces once I get some more free time. Its tough because my Bluetooth module is SMD, meaning it has very tiny spacing between contact points and doesn't exactly play well with this through-the-hole board. It might look big, but the voltage regulator I have mounted on there is about the size of a dime.
Speaking of which, this is actually a neat little regulator! It can take a 12-24v input and step it down, in my case to 3.3v but it all depends on what you set it at with the little pot. I've been using my 18v drill batteries to power up other things using one of these on the bench since I am too cheap to buy a power source right now. Well, that and I don't have room for one at the moment.
The wife has me working on a kitchen remodel and I think it might be the death of me! I was hauling some cabinets home and couldn't see the trailer in my mirrors well enough to tell if my straps had come loose. I was on the interstate and feeling a bit paranoid since the trailer doesn't have a tailgate. A button to switch on the camera would have been awesome, and that's what sent me down that path. I believe, and someone more knowledgeable can correct me, that to activate the camera I will just have to switch ground with the reverse input. A switch would fool it into thinking I am in reverse and give me the camera feed whenever I felt the need, like pulling a trailer loaded with cabinets.
This is the progress on my DIY Bluetooth module. I have a wiring diagram drawn up and will be running traces once I get some more free time. Its tough because my Bluetooth module is SMD, meaning it has very tiny spacing between contact points and doesn't exactly play well with this through-the-hole board. It might look big, but the voltage regulator I have mounted on there is about the size of a dime.
Speaking of which, this is actually a neat little regulator! It can take a 12-24v input and step it down, in my case to 3.3v but it all depends on what you set it at with the little pot. I've been using my 18v drill batteries to power up other things using one of these on the bench since I am too cheap to buy a power source right now. Well, that and I don't have room for one at the moment.
The wife has me working on a kitchen remodel and I think it might be the death of me! I was hauling some cabinets home and couldn't see the trailer in my mirrors well enough to tell if my straps had come loose. I was on the interstate and feeling a bit paranoid since the trailer doesn't have a tailgate. A button to switch on the camera would have been awesome, and that's what sent me down that path. I believe, and someone more knowledgeable can correct me, that to activate the camera I will just have to switch ground with the reverse input. A switch would fool it into thinking I am in reverse and give me the camera feed whenever I felt the need, like pulling a trailer loaded with cabinets.
