We are building a 2005 Ford Excursion for the 2024 world car shows in Detroit, New York, L.A. culminating in Las Vegas at the SEMA show. Want to add some custom features to this unit and bring it up to present day technology. Some things are easier than others.
Obviously, we are working on a 12v system so chose the Arduino Nano to accomplish 2 things and perhaps more. At first we were heading down the 555 road but finally settled here but need some help from the guru's.
First thing we want to do is add cornering LED lights which will illuminate when the same side blinker is activated with a delay to off of 6 to 10 seconds after steering clicks the blinker off.
Second plan is to have automatic canceling blinkers. The idea is to push the turn signal switch to the point that the signal starts but before the significant detent that holds the arm in place. Use that initial on trigger to continue sending pulses for a defined time or number of pulses and then stop.
Bottom line is this is not our skillset. We can solder and understand the ideas but applying it will just take to much time. Anyone want to help us and then see your work on some big stages?
We will buy everything and pay a fee to get this done. If you have an alternative plan we would love to go anther direction.
Thank you for your time and consideration
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Thank you!
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What's the budget or what are you willing to pay?
Don't really have a budget just looking for someone to be fair and charge a fair price... Whatever that is.
It's hard to quote a price without knowing what all you want to do. Are you prepared for it to run into the thousands? Or are you looking for an amateur?
Definitely amateur! This seems like a simple project.
Possibly trivial logically.
Not so simple: controlling things that can't be directly done just by code.
Harder: interfacing to the bits of the car you want to hear and/or control.
Expert level: dealing with the notoriously difficult operating environment which is the modern automobile.
Sounds like buckets of time for an amateur to come up to speed, or buckets of money to find the right people to just do it.
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Fortunately, they don't have to worry about the changes being legal to drive on America's streets and highways!
Exactly right!
It always seems simple to folks that don't know what's involved.
Will it JUST be the turn signal light and nothing else? Or are you going to want to add more lights and more stuff as it goes? Will it JUST be lights or are you going to want to add sensors and sound or something else later?
Be careful with that. In many cases the experienced person will do in an hour what will take the amateur all day. Working with cars, I'm sure you've seen that.
A carpenter friend of mine used to say "the only difference between me and the DIY guy who goes to Home Depot is that I get it right the first time."
Are you experienced? If so what would you charge for programming?
Modern vehicles that have the momentary turn signal feature have a switch that closes when you partially press the turn signal lever. Does your vehicle have such a switch or can you retrofit a more modern lever/switch assembly?
Do you have the factory service manual that has all the electrical system schematics?
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Honda for example call this One-touch Turn Indicators.
You do realize that Atmel processors ARE NOT automotive certified? So, you're asking an amateur to accept liability and possibly commit something illegal?
For the parking side lights you are probably capable enough to hook something like this up yourself to turn the lights on for up to 10 seconds.
One Shot Timer
I sent you a PM a couple days ago.
Yet they have a datasheet specifically for the automotive ATmega328P... with indeed a disclaimer in the small letters at the very end.
By the way, those certification requirements only apply if you want to make a road legal vehicle. The OP doesn't seem to want to do this, they're looking for a show car.