Serial Port 'ThingAmaJig'

So to do some 'handy work' on some of these radios and clusters some people over at carmodders hacked together a solution on a breadboard. I figured it would be nice to clean it up a bit and make it more user friendly. I'm not going to post the details but I'll post pictures of the design and the finished product. I'm quite pleased how this turned out with the silkscreened logo on the back.

I went through a couple of rough drafts before I had a small design I was happy with. As to why I didn't fully extend the board under the serial port: I had some size constraints (I had to be under 'x' amount of square inches) so anything helped :) Aesthetically I would've preferred the PCB to extend the full length under the DB9 connector.

And here are the circuit boards as they came in from OshPark

Couple minutes of soldering and it's done

 

A whole bunch completed for all the guys over at Carmodder

Radio Logos - Part IV

So after playing with these Radio logos for a while I figured I'd see if I could get a more detailed animation in there. Most the stock logos are fairly simple: A static logo that fades to black. In my last post about this the new ones I made were done in a similar way, but with a little bit fancier fades.

This time I figured I'd try to make a few more intricate ones that would be 'full screen'  animations. Obviously trying to cram this in the same amount of space would be a challenge, especially with the limitations on the number of frames, colors, resolution, memory etc, but I managed to work around that. Even then it was a tight squeeze requiring quite a bit of manipulation to get it to fit.

So here's some more samples of what can be done.