PLX08 Project - Knight Rider Car
Knight Rider
This Project was created by Frazer Fyfe, Christine Orr and Lynn Wiseman
we decided that for are plx project we were going to create the front and dashboard of kitt from knight rider. the dashboard piece would require a sound to light converter so iut could flash when kitt spoke and for the front we would need a running set of leds.
for this we consultated the venue techs who pointed us to the cheap wonders of maplin where we bought the kits we needed -
sound to light converter - problems encountered - didnt work because of a mix of crap soldering and irons which therefore burnt the circuits and perhaps a bad component as is so commonly encountered with maplin kits!!
running leds -
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Problems
Unfortunately we were unable to make the sequence run in reverse. We now know that in order to do this we could heve connected the LED's in pairs. By doing this one input from the shift register would light the LED's in the first sequence, and the other connection would light them on the return. (see photo 7)
We also tried to recreate the voice recognition monitor from the interior of the car.
We attempted to do this using an LED Sound to Light Unit. (See Pictures 4, 5 and 6) Unfortunately, due to faulty soldering we were unable to demonstrate this in class.
