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Old 06-14-2014, 12:25 PM   #101 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aszyd View Post
The combination that I would love to see is the LED brakes lights be used for both the turn signals and brakes, but but light up sequentially from bottom to top, or the opposite, for both turn signals and brakes. IE, if you are turning left, the left brake light would cycle from bottom to top repeatedly to indicate the turn and the right would light from bottom to top once then and be solid. If just stopping, both lights would cycle and then stop.



It might be possible to use an Arduino to run the light programming, but that is currently beyond my skill set and I have no idea what the tail light wiring is like.

My first thought on how to do this would be to put an arduino on the wires going to the lights and when it senses then being turned on on an input, it flashes the outputs in order. There a couple problems I see with this though:

1. There is no way to distinguish the light turning on from a brake vs a blinker. I think wires would have to be run from the brake pedal up front but I'm not sure.

2. When the headlights are on the tail lights are dim. This might be a challenge to integrate with the arduino.

3. Brake lights coming on sequentially seems like a bit of a safety issue if you slam on your brakes


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