Hey guys, I just finished a project I've been working on sporadically over the last few weeks and wanted to share.

It is a set of LED's that are custom fit in the air-intake piece of the hood scoop. The LED's are wired to an arduino microcontroller with a bluetooth module, which is controlled with an Android app I made.

Here's a video showing it in action:



Here's a screengrab from the video:



Here's an image of the app interface:



And here's a quick shot of the hardware in the glovebox that receives the bluetooth signals and controls the LEDs.



Let me know what you think, Hope you like it!

-Brian

 

Very cool. Knight Rider gets my vote.

 

I likey.......

 

very very freakin sweet! love the development; the app, the arduino, the control box. i am very impressed!

if i already didnt have knight rider lights in my hood scoop, i would buy this setup!

 

now to make it red and blue and have some fun

 

Yep.....that's cool. Do you have plans to sell? Lock & Unlock feature is nice.

 

Thank you! I appreciate it.

Let me know if you ever get tired of your knight rider lights

 

Thanks! I would definitely consider making a batch of these kits if there are enough people interested. I'm still trying to figure out how pricing would work out.

If you are interested, send me a PM with your email and we can start a discussion about it.

Best,

bharms

 

Haha I thought about it... I wanted to do RGB LEDs at one point, but for technical reasons (the need for multiplexing or 15 PWM pins total) I decided against it.

I guess you could put any color films you want in front of the LEDs

 

Very cool, thinking about adding similar lights to my scoop. Won't be able to control mine via Bluetooth though. Awesome job looks very cool.

 

Hey Coop-a-Loop, I took a quick video for you to show the unlock feature. I tried posting this earlier but it looks like it didn't go through.



Cheers

 

I like it......I would chuckle to myself every time I locked/unlocked the car. lol Are you planning an Iphone app too?

 

Ha yeah whenever I walk out to my car and the front end is facing away from me, I walk in front of it, unlock it, giggle a little in my head, and then get in the car. It's been fun.

I've never dealt with IOS development before (truth be told this is really my first foray into the android dev world) so I don't know yet. I guess if there was a lot of interest i would definitely consider it.

Alternatively, if i didn't do the app I was going to hardwire buttons that I was going to hide in the arm rest (to feel a little Bond-like). So if there are people who don't have android but want the LED effects, that could be a fairly simple alternative. Then you wouldn't need the bluetooth module.

Oh a side note before I forget - it actually only does that startup sequence when you unlock the car (because that's when the arduino get's power). Right now it's not set up to do anything automatically when you lock/leave the car.

Anyways, glad you like it!

cheers

 

Wicked neat! Question though: How did you set up the wiring for power? I purchased this scoop LED grill (http://www.fastmini.net/hoscledinkit.html) a while back but never go to installing it. I'm asking because the included instructions only tell you splice it with the side lamp indicators, thus the 3 LEDs are only on if you switch the parking lamps on (one turn forward on the switch). But I want them to be my DRLs, so they would be on as soon as I turn on the car (ignition).

 

I am interested in your lights. Did you ever put a package together? I have 2014 F56. I would like to add some green lights to my scoop. I like what you have done. I know your post is kind of old. I was just checking to see if you are still offering it for sale.

 

I think OP is mia.

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