You might remember the ‘69 Pontiac GTO controlled using a iPod Touch that we featured last year. Dave Phipps has made a new video that goes over how everything was tied together to make the RedEye control the entire system. Dave does some great work! I have seen the inside of some other custom car mods and some of them are just a rats nest of wires, Dave on the other hand has some great documentation and everything looks neat and tidy. I was a bit surprised to see that Dave uses a relay kit as part of the build but the kit looks like it is something special that I haven’t seen available any where else so this might be the only simple way to get that type of functionality. In the demonstration near the end Dave hooked up a system that opened and closed a simulated window using a timer instead of limit switches. I wonder how well this technique would work in the real world, as the motor gets a bit older and depending on how good the battery is I think the time to open and close the window could change significantly. I am thinking that a max time and some limit switches would be the best option, but of course that would take more hardware, wiring time and programming time.
Thanks for the tip April.