Part 50: Electronic Instrument Cluster Conversion - Part 4 - My 76 Mazda RX 5 Cosmo Restoration

aaroncake Podcast 5 years ago

Description

Episode 50 of my '76 Mazda Cosmo Restoration is packed full of detail and information. Possibly more than any other episode released. Because after all, there's a lot to say about designing and building an Atmel 1284 powered CANbus communicating, stepper motor driving, TFT screen displaying, addressable LED controlling, rotary encoder twiddle accepting, heart of an electronic instrument cluster, circuit. That's what this episode primarily concentrates on with a bit more thrown in the middle. It's heavy on the electronics of course, and the last installment before final assembly of the instrument cluster. You might want to pour yourself a drink, sit back, brace yourself (that's what she said). By the way, I made an obvious mistake in this video. Can you spot it?

Schematics, code and board patterns from this video: https://www.aaroncake.net/76cosmo/cluster

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