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Offline TomatoSoup

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #350 on: October 12, 2011, 01:03:53 PM »
Quote from: Arabas on October 12, 2011, 11:00:44 AM
next project will be to write a code to tranform your kappa to an Autobot?
keep the innovation going TS!  :thumbs:
Hmmmm... Autobot...
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #351 on: October 12, 2011, 01:06:18 PM »
I'd like to see you write an assembler program for THAT!   :rofl:
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #352 on: October 12, 2011, 01:10:36 PM »
Self driving Kappa to race against Google's self driving cars.
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #353 on: October 12, 2011, 08:08:36 PM »
Loked like a board for speakers LSW ,LT, RSW, RT
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #354 on: October 12, 2011, 11:26:07 PM »
Quote from: TomatoSoup on October 12, 2011, 09:29:35 AM
Heh!  Good ideas all, but I'm afraid it's a little more mundane. 

It's going to be a multi-level controller for my seat heaters.  Never liked the look of the kit switches or the just two levels (too hot and not hot enough) of the basic heaters, so I'm replacing the switches with modified Honda (scrapyard) backlit push button switches.  The controller will register how many times the buttons are pressed and then activate solid state relays in an 3 second on-off cycle to modulate the heat.  In theory I could go to many levels, but  I'm only extending it to 3 levels - Lo/Med/High - with Red/Blue Leds in the switches being turned on - blue/purple/red - to indicate the level chosen. There's also a config function so I can adjust the on/off cycle for Lo and Med levels on each side in the car to adjust how I (or my wife) likes it.  I've already written all the code in assembler (it's been a looooong time since I wrote code) and that was great fun.

May seem like overkill for a microcontroller, but these chips are so low cost, ~$2 for the 44A, and they contain all the driver circuitry, it was actually the cheap way to go!

Bob, I probably will solder in the chip for physical security.  I kept the in-circuit programmer header (the six-pin box at the bottom) so I can load or update the program in situ.

This is the icon I'll use on the switches - note it's a Kappa seat silhouette!

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I absolutely loathe coding especially assembly. Great work,
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #355 on: October 13, 2011, 09:16:01 AM »
Quote from: 1 LIL NDN on October 12, 2011, 08:08:36 PM
Loked like a board for speakers LSW ,LT, RSW, RT
That's Left Switch, Left Thermocouple, Right Switch, Right Thermocouple - but I haven't coded for the thermocouples, just an option if the on/off cycle method doesn't work well in practice.
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #356 on: October 19, 2011, 10:09:53 AM »
So even though I've not finished my current mod projects (seat controller and rearview camera mount) I've been starting on the early design for my next possible project (again using an Atmel micro as the core):

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #357 on: October 19, 2011, 10:16:49 AM »
TS, if that is to replace the Passenger Seat belt light, then I sooooo want one as well! Make sure you document it up real nice so us novices can give it a try :)
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #358 on: October 19, 2011, 10:18:49 AM »
this will be a kick ass mod!!!
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #359 on: October 19, 2011, 10:20:32 AM »
Quote from: sirmeili on October 19, 2011, 10:16:49 AM
TS, if that is to replace the Passenger Seat belt light, then I sooooo want one as well! Make sure you document it up real nice so us novices can give it a try :)
Yup! and OK!
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #360 on: October 19, 2011, 10:49:38 AM »
Quote from: sirmeili on October 19, 2011, 10:16:49 AM
TS, if that is to replace the Passenger Seat belt light, then I sooooo want one as well! Make sure you document it up real nice so us novices can give it a try :)
:agree:
I know that Mark always documents his mods really well. This one will be SOOOOOOO sweet!
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #361 on: October 22, 2011, 12:38:10 PM »
the center cap of my new wheels was not deep enough to fit on the GT, so i drilled a hole on each one of them, sanded them and painted them flat black.
waiting for them to dry to put them on the wheels

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #362 on: October 23, 2011, 07:52:15 PM »
OK, finally finished my replacement LED license plate light bracket and rear-view camera mount, per: http://www.kappaperformance.com/forum/index.php/topic,7532.msg122904.html#msg122904.  Not difficult actually, just been too busy to get to it until now.  I'll post a thread soon, but until then, this is a photo of it finished and camera mounted.  Came out nicely I think - very factory-looking:




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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #363 on: October 23, 2011, 07:54:47 PM »
Here is a pic of Arabas' hubs after he got them put together.
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #364 on: October 23, 2011, 11:20:09 PM »
Quote from: Sol Asylum on October 23, 2011, 07:54:47 PM
Here is a pic of Arabas' hubs after he got them put together.

Why do you have to pick on the guy?  At least he has ONE mod on his car!
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #365 on: October 24, 2011, 02:41:38 AM »
SA i take it you are not a fan of the black color on a car? :)
GJ is supporting me instead of picking on me?? that's just crazy!!! thx buddy!
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #366 on: October 24, 2011, 07:15:13 AM »
Quote from: Arabas on October 24, 2011, 02:41:38 AM
SA i take it you are not a fan of the black color on a car? :)
GJ is supporting me instead of picking on me?? that's just crazy!!! thx buddy!

Pay no attention. GJ is off his meds again.

SA - I thought it was quite funny.

Arabas - if they don't pick on you, they don't like you ;)
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #367 on: October 24, 2011, 07:26:55 AM »
Quote from: SHiNY on October 24, 2011, 07:15:13 AM
Pay no attention. GJ is off his meds again.

SA - I thought it was quite funny.

Arabas - if they don't pick on you, they don't like you ;)

no wonder why you don't pick on me....    :poke:
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #368 on: October 24, 2011, 08:46:03 AM »
Quote from: Arabas on October 24, 2011, 07:26:55 AM
no wonder why you don't pick on me....    :poke:

Awww I would pick on you Arabas but now that you are engaged I try to be respectful of that in case your other half reads the forum. These days I only mess with people I know can take it or who I know won't get in trouble if I talk trash/flirt with them.
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #369 on: October 24, 2011, 09:22:40 AM »
You flirt ?
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #370 on: October 24, 2011, 09:44:09 AM »
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #371 on: October 24, 2011, 09:49:33 AM »
Breaking News.........

Shiney Flirts.

hee hee

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #372 on: October 24, 2011, 11:21:36 AM »
I would agree...

Oh, sorry.  Thought you said "farts"......
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #373 on: October 24, 2011, 11:30:09 AM »
Quote from: Go-N Def on October 24, 2011, 11:21:36 AM
I would agree...

Oh, sorry.  Thought you said "farts"......

I like you the least!
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today - Part 2
« Reply #374 on: October 24, 2011, 01:12:27 PM »
That was no flirt right there ...
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