Mustang Electronics Project - Arduino Controlled... well, electronics.

[freeskier7791]

This is way cool.  I am assisting in making an individual coil pack ignition system for LT1s and I wish I had your EE knowledge.

[digitalsolo]

My EE knowledge consists of 4 semesters before I got sick of it and dropped out (don't drop out of college kids, you'll never amount to anything...  oh, wait...), so it's not THAT good.   It's just basic knowledge + lots of research. 

I have a revision of that board, but it's basically the same, just bigger traces for the power feed side.   I need to add copper pour and a few other tweaks then validate 100% dimensions are accurate (I had to draw most of the component footprints, which I did via measuring with my digital calipers).  Once they're good, I'll go ahead and order a set of these boards and start on my "brain box".  I need to sit down and figure out every feature I want so that I can be sure I have all of the I/O I need for it.

I'm planning to use these for the fuse/relay boxes (probably 3 total; 1 front, 1 rear, 1 under the dash):

[SH4DY]

Hey Blake - have you looked at the Raspberry Pi stuff?
http://brianesser.com/main/index.php/megasquirt-raspberry-pi-dash-wiki

It looks like it could make for a really sweet display if you could get it to go into "hibernation" with the key off to avoid the long boot sequence.
https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/33723/how-to-achieve-low-power-consumption-on-raspberry-pi-via-software-and-hardware-c

I don't know shit about programming. Maybe you can makes something out of that?

[digitalsolo]

I need a real time OS to do this stuff, so Raspberry Pi is out.

[digitalsolo]

It lives!







This is the prototype, hence the modular design.   It works so far, the clamping diode and reverse polarity protection diodes work as designed, as does the voltage regulator.    I'll start testing the input/output controls and CAN data next, still building a control box (this is a slave box).

[freeskier7791]

DId you make that case?

[markfluko]

DId you make that case?

That case looks molded, so I doubt it. The total package looks killer though!

Your Mustang is going to be off the charts cool when you finish, lot's of cool custom features.

[freeskier7791]

DId you make that case?

That case looks molded, so I doubt it. The total package looks killer though!

Your Mustang is going to be off the charts cool when you finish, lot's of cool custom features.

Looking at the picture closer I see made in Mexico!  +1 on the total package, I can't wait to see the finished project

[digitalsolo]

The case is a CINCH modICE piece from Mouser.   It's ~20 bucks for the whole case/connector.  I can't design an IP66 rated case that cheap. 

[carlb]

This looks awesome! How much you thinking for one? I'll probably take one. I've been looking to play with something like this for a while.

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[digitalsolo]

Let me make sure it all works, LOL.   I have 3 dollars in each board, the rest of the hardware to finish one out is about 40 dollars total, so probably 50 dollars for a full beta version like these?

[carlb]

Let me make sure it all works, LOL.   I have 3 dollars in each board, the rest of the hardware to finish one out is about 40 dollars total, so probably 50 dollars for a full beta version like these?

I'm used to being a beta tester. So, I'm in. [emoji41]

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[WannaBeFast]

This is way cool but you have to explain it to me like I am 5 years old.

[halfspec]

Big fan of the enclosure Blake. Rolling your own PCB mount connectors and integrating it into a weatherproof enclosure can get expensive and complicated really fast. Having a prebuilt solution like this for projects is invaluable. I'll have to bookmark for the future 

Lane

[digitalsolo]

Big fan of the enclosure Blake. Rolling your own PCB mount connectors and integrating it into a weatherproof enclosure can get expensive and complicated really fast. Having a prebuilt solution like this for projects is invaluable. I'll have to bookmark for the future 

Lane

Yep, exactly.   I actually ordered stuff to design my own and then went "nah, this is dumb" and let someone else do the work for me.

I've been working on this/testing it and everything from a circuit design appears to be aces.   I'm dialing in the transmitter code now, once I'm sure that works I'll figure out a design for the transmitter (the boxes I've shown so far are receivers/slaves).    I'll probably do a Version 2.0 on the receivers soon as well as I want to move them to integrated instead of the modular ones here.