Nick's Digital Shed

One of the next jobs on my list is to look at the rest of the interior. I have managed to get hold of some original switchpacks for the air conditioning / fan and headlight controls - these go either side of the steering wheel and the LED intelligence will be handled by the new dash pod I've designed. Next up then are the two switchpacks either side of the stereo head-unit. To use the late model T-Car interior design, there is a fibreglass pod that holds the radio and houses these two non-symmetrical, rather nice looking switch packs that house controls for the window up / down function, door open and on the left pack only, door locks.  TVR T-Car Interior (Tamora, T350 & Sagaris Models) Fairly early in my plan, I decided that I really wanted to integrate heated seats into the car. On cooler days it's really nice to run with the roof off, but it can get a bit chilly so heated seats will be a welcome addition! Looking at the aftermarket kits however, they a...

I decided it was time for another blog post now things are a little quiet due to the global pandemic and am rather shocked to have seen that 5 months has disappeared somewhere! How on earth is this possible?? So what have I done in 5 months? Well rather a lot which I'm quite proud of - it's amazing looking back at these posts and seeing the learning process; things I thought were deeply impressive feats which now seem quite trivial - I'm sure this progress will seem trivial in 5 months too; right now it seems like I've cracked the enigma code though... So last time around I was just getting into Autodesk Eagle and making my first board design. I originally wanted to have a pair of Teensy 3.2 microcontrollers to run the dash, but soon realised that I wanted to also have the capacity to read the various switches and control the various LED indicators from the TVR OEM switchpacks. This required individual control of around 30 LEDs, plus PWM control of sever...