Hope everyone had a fantastic Ghostbusters weekend.
Delving back into this I spent a day playing around with Arduino code. This was a big step for me, as I am not computer savvy, like at all really.
But finding out that I needed an older bootloader due to my elegoo nanos and chinese uno being 3rd party, I was able to get all boards to blink an LED. Then use a switch to turn on an LED.
I kept the ball rolling and started on the ECU set up. If I had 5 years I might have got myself to a point to design the code myself. But I didn't so I cheated and spent money on a code of Etsy. Is it perfect, no. Does it have all the sequences I want. Yes.
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Brimming with confidence I wired up the switches and small speaker I was able to get for the DF Mini player with plenty of wire left over if I needed to reroute anything due to the physical build.
I hot glued terminals on the breadboard to ensure nothing would shake loose during travel or set up.
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I stapled some black fabric over the back to hide the internals and add some mystery when the hatch would be open. I also bought some cheap garden LED light sticks to use for my red and green lights for the top as I wasn't going to have this as free standing or have anywhere to hang the lights at the convention.
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On the 10th I went to get more of my chosen paint from Halfords, to find they were out and all nearby stores were also out. So I could leave the unit partially painted or swap to another colour of red and hope it was close enough... F@#%
Que a mad and all over the place respray with thankfully good weather some printed of labels held on with double sided tape and it was done.
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We had a fantastic day at the convention and many compliments on the unit.
Definitely need to find better speakers that can be heard over the convention hall background but still happy with it.
Here is my brother Adam and team member Chris after our set up.
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Delving back into this I spent a day playing around with Arduino code. This was a big step for me, as I am not computer savvy, like at all really.
But finding out that I needed an older bootloader due to my elegoo nanos and chinese uno being 3rd party, I was able to get all boards to blink an LED. Then use a switch to turn on an LED.
I kept the ball rolling and started on the ECU set up. If I had 5 years I might have got myself to a point to design the code myself. But I didn't so I cheated and spent money on a code of Etsy. Is it perfect, no. Does it have all the sequences I want. Yes.
Brimming with confidence I wired up the switches and small speaker I was able to get for the DF Mini player with plenty of wire left over if I needed to reroute anything due to the physical build.
I hot glued terminals on the breadboard to ensure nothing would shake loose during travel or set up.
I stapled some black fabric over the back to hide the internals and add some mystery when the hatch would be open. I also bought some cheap garden LED light sticks to use for my red and green lights for the top as I wasn't going to have this as free standing or have anywhere to hang the lights at the convention.
On the 10th I went to get more of my chosen paint from Halfords, to find they were out and all nearby stores were also out. So I could leave the unit partially painted or swap to another colour of red and hope it was close enough... F@#%
Que a mad and all over the place respray with thankfully good weather some printed of labels held on with double sided tape and it was done.
We had a fantastic day at the convention and many compliments on the unit.
Definitely need to find better speakers that can be heard over the convention hall background but still happy with it.
Here is my brother Adam and team member Chris after our set up.
Statistics: Posted by alphabeta001 — June 9th, 2025, 3:59 am