DIY car lighting illuminates areas the designers overlooked

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[Dave] just can’t seem to get enough of modifying his new car. Where he lives, it’s typically dark on his ride home from work and he finds himself dropping things on the floor of his car all too often. Nissan decided not to include lighting in the Juke’s foot well or glove box, so [Dave] decided that he needed to rectify the situation. As you might have noticed by his previous tinkering, … [Read more...]

LED strip and uC add some flash to your tail lights

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[Dave] spiced up his new 2012 Nissan Juke with a little tail-light amendment. You can see that outlining the rim of the light enclosure is a series of dots. This is an LED strip that he added to augment the brake lights. It's glued in place, and features side emitting LEDs so that the light will be focused behind the car. To control the strip he's using an ATtiny85 microcontroller. It's the … [Read more...]