Not shown: Many hours picking out fun fonts. Yes there was a comic sans racecar dashboard for a minute, thanks for asking Edit: Also! I’ll put the files to this in the video description for free this evening, if you wanna make one yourself.
@@WesleyKaganfound your channel forever ago and can say without a shadow of a doubt hope that eventually I become the engineer you are today, your ability to pick up all aspects of engineering is inspiring 😊
Nextion is great for prototypes, I found it wasn't up to task for prime time. I like the Riverdi displays with the stm32 which has a ton more power than the atmel in the arduino nano. That may be a whole other can of worms though. It was for me.
I love mechanical Dial, how about making the printed cogs out of aluminum and anodizing them black? Another suggestion for the needle is to make it fluorecent/glow in the dark so it is a little more visible in low light conditions, because the display might get some poor visibility due to sun glare.
If you colour in your numbers with some enamel paint, then sand them back down flat it will create cool contrast for the dials. You could even colour some of the speeds differently so that you can know when you're hitting some of the rounder numbers. Thank you for sharing this project with us. Its an absolute joy to watch. Vibes from Budapest.
You could (for the grips) design a thin wall section rubber grip and get them vacuum cast, which is a really affordable way of producing rubber grips, have done it before on a work project. These rubber grips could then be bonded to your TPU current grips.
FWIW, autorouters should be used sparingly anyway, you'll get best results by doing the bulk of the routing manually, then you use the auto router to route specific traces that you're struggling with.
There is a phrase.. smashing Gnats with sledgehammers. I think the level of overcomplication you employ to everything is at a level that is truly surprising. THat is by no means a insult. I think.. just because you can.. doesn't mean you should is something to think of. THANKFULLY..... you are focusing the chaotic energy for creation and overcomplication on ONE project.. and have "finished" it multiple times now. SO its only getting better. Which is a rolling pile of success. SO yeah. HUGE Congrats on being able to "finish" steps along the way.. make it work.. then redesign. Instead of dropping the project to the woulda shoulda coulda land.
Your wheel is pretty cool. If you need an alternative to the Arduino Nano, you can use a more modern Raspi Pico (about 4$) with more IOs, with probably enough memory & cpu to drive a LCD directly (about 20$ for a 3.5" lcd module).
Most impressed with post frequency… oh, yes, and content! This is my favorite project channel, huge Lotus 49 fan, and love the obscure engineering, modern methods on the classic open wheel design.
Brilliant Wesley!! Car looks absolutely epic. The steering wheel is quality, analog output is all class. Building your own upright, IMO, is the final stage of going from extreme modification to I built this car. Incredible.
Dude you are a super impressive builder and video creator. It’s not easy to document while creating like this. The caliber of your project is very high too. Keep it up! You’re on track to get that UA-camr inertia wheel going ✊
- guy using a hammer at his mill - me knowing he knows what he does. You did an awesome job! Wish I had my own mill (good thing is that two friend have milling workshops so at least every now and then between series they can make parts an prototyping is done by the 3d printer)
I absolutely love how complex the steering wheel is and how many different skill and knowledge basis are needed to develop it all with the required deep dive and learning process of each one to make it happen. I know the normal progression of design is meant to be less mechanically complex and less analogue, but this is just outright fun. I also take on many projects and interests, (though at a much lower level) that require whole new skillsets and equipment. I love the challenge. Though I'm still trying to get a successful 1st print (30 fails so far) out of my 1st 3D printer. I'll blame not growing up with computers and finishing school before the internet existed. :)
This is so cool. for anyone interested on the Arduino/display portion of this sort of stuff, you can check out a youtuber called upir who does a bunch or Arduino display stuff with an emphasis on automotive things. like boost gauges and gear position indicators etc. he goes into a LOT of detail.
I subbed after the freevalve miata, and havent regretted it ever. While your upload schedule is... curious, it just adds to the fun, and the progress over the *checks notes* 3 years has been great to watch.
So much crazy stuff, all of it wonderful. A wheel-mounted, steam punk speedo/tach in a scratch built 60's F1 tribute with a V12? Why not. I have enormous faith in you, even so making your own wheel centres seems pretty edgy.
There's nothing more satisfying than starting with a piece of metal and finishing with something you've poured your heart into! I love the content and I had no idea you could have your own PCB board made!
That think is a peace of art. Love the analog speedo! Realy great that you made a whole video about it. I hope the next video comes as fast as this one came after the last one. Great work!
i would put a little bit of knurling on the little glossy buttons. i also like the look of the metal dial for the speed, but i think it would work better if you could make it lighter. i want a speedo on my wheel now lol thanks
Oh now I see there are 3 of us! Wesley is a man after my own heart and apparently also after yours. Theres definitely nothing better than self indulgent quest's that serve no purpose other than to please ourselves wouldnt you agree?
Mad respect anyone who takes the time to learn new skills and put them to use is awesome, just don't forget there is a community out there that can help you fine tune those skills or help make things more efficient (When i worked in IT did that all the time, i could read code and tell you how it worked but programing wasn't my strong suit an amazed how often someone could change my 100s of lines into a few or create a funtion to do what i was trying to do) Keep it up and i will keep watching :)
"I can pretend like I know what Im doing when it comes to programming, I dont. I over spec the hardware and then write bad code" I will save this one, thanks!
The retro aspect of this car refers to late sixties single seaters such as the 67 Lotus 49. Those were past the point of wire wheels. That said, this is SCREAMING for coffin spoke wheels! Bronze colored, obviously.
this is incredible, i'm truly fascinated by this steering wheel build. just a super quick comment on grips - before you go with something complex/final/expensive, it might be worth buying various sporting grip tapes / bar wraps and seeing if they suit? tennis racquet, cricket bat, and possibly most suited to the job - bike drop bar tape. you'll be able to play around with the thickness, squishiness, and texture at a pretty cheap price and low effort. you could try like ten different options for 100 bucks in the space of a couple hours of fiddling around. oh, also from the world of motorbikes, there's fake leather grip tape around too. very easy to install (including around weird shapes and joins). i'm an idiot and i have successfully changed bike grip tape multiple times.
Get a multi color pack of Play-Doh Foam, mix all the colors together and cover the handle in it. It conforms really well to your grip, holds its shape perfectly. It's made from clearly defined points with different colors by default, making it perfect for any type of scanning.
I love the mechanical bits! So cool. I've got a few findings from making digidashes that only become apparent after you've had a bunch of seat time staring at one. Having some sort of hysteresis is really important to stop vales from just constantly flicking from 99 to 100 and back (or whatever) I just kept a value called rpm.displayed (or whatever) and if the new value hasnt changed by a big enough jump from the old value, it'll just keep the old one there. Below 4000rpm I would only show rpm changes in 50rpm increments, then only in 500 rpm increments when going accelerating a lot faster. Anything where you are displaying numbers, that is say 4 or 5 digits long. It's way quicker to break this into 4 separate updatable values in the Nextion, so the number of pixels it needs to update is reduced. I ended up using bitmaps for each number, so I could antialias the font so it looked a bit sharper. I found that the Nextion cant really update fast enough for a shift bar to be practical, but using a nextion screen in conjunction with some neopixel LED bars was in INCREDIBLE combo. As the LEDs have an insanely fast update rate, and super bright as well. You can actually pack a really amazing density of information into a simple LED bar, because you can use the bar colour to indicate information (like engine temp) but then use the bar moving across as a shift bar or rpm indicator. Or make the bar flash as a warning light for any sort of low pressure or high temp or whatever. When you have a shift bar, if it just travels from left to right then it's actually quite hard to gauge when to shift - as you have to be looking out for where your bar is up to, and also where the end is. If you have two bars that travel towards each other and meet in the center, it's really easy to anticipate the best shifting time just with your peripheral vision. I've also noticed that although F1 steering wheels have a whole lot of LEDs on them, they only display in 3 or 4 steps rather than a bar that gradually increases. I think this is because it's distracting watchin a bar creep up, compared to having to only register 3 discrete changes to help anticipate the shift time. If you have a touch screen version of the Nextion you can take off the front layer of the screen (the touch panel part) you get a less glossy finish that is easier to see when the sun is over your shoulder. Otherwise if it's too glossy even like that, can just find a 3rd party LCD screen with a matte finish and swap it in, so long as the ribbon cable and resolution is the same it's worked for me that way. I found a 500Nit matte finish screen and it was remarkably betterer. Having a really "busy" looking display is cool to start with, and okay for when you are trundling along. But makes it really hard to read important values when you're going 10/10ths. So having it switch to a new page that is just high contrast text / bars only works really well for when you're say over 70% throttle and over 4000rpm (or whatever) with a cooldown timer so it's not switching back and forth a lot. When you're also trying to make the screen as visible as possible, high contrast colours (yellow or white) make for a good readable display that you only need to glance at. I found that generating features in Nextion using the available primitive commands is by far the quickest way to do things. Like for drawing a bar graph, it's actually quicker to draw the outside box, the inside box, and a box depicting the value. Than it is to use the crappy premade stuff. Having context sensitive screens and being able to flash a big "PULL OVER AND STOP THE ENGINE, STUPID" warnings are 100% the best feature of a digidash I reckon. Thanks for coming to my unsolicited TED talk on digidashes.
When you make the brass gears you could try using some brass black solution to darken them. They don't have to be polished brass color. The dial looks sweet!
Thanks for making the files available. I'm using it as a reference for my speedway car. Running micro squirt, custom cam triggers, wasted gate spark and more data then I could ever need on my little 4g54 engine wideblock😮. Thanks again.
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The world is a better place when maniac inventors like you are allowed to do whatever you want. I'm not a big sticker or poster guy, but have you considered selling pixels in the final livery to supporters? I don't care how long it takes to come to fruition, I'd pitch in.
I had dreams of doing something similar when I was about 12 years old. Then I realized that I have no practical skills and had no clue where to even begin. It’s good to see someone with skills and motivation to make this happen. Can’t wait for the next one.
Wesley, you're doing great work. I too settled on Arduino and Nextion for the directness of embedded code. I'm using KiCAD EDA software but the results should be the same. I started but did not finish, yet, gauges that use rolled strips of graphics to get an old school but unique looking linear gauge set. I have not made all made all the Nextion gauge art slick yet. My engine swap I/O project has Arduino Mega2560, 9 PWMs and 11 A/Ds but covers for my failures using CAN bus. I fail so most of the time but keep at so get a fair amount done. Others think I'm good at this stuff. I'm not, only stubborn. You do everything so very nicely. I love the sheetmetal processes. It is great to see others doing full stand alone EFI. Mine is full closed loop sequential on a MGB with a crossflow head using MegaSquirt MS3-Pro. As I have no prior experience on many things I had to teach myself to weld in order to make manifolds. I spend way too long on everything but versions two through four go much faster. Thanks for inspiring us to keep trying.
make the grips out of molded silicone, I know in Solidworks you can essentially take any 3d model and subtract it from an extrusion feature. You can then slice that body with a extruded cut (with a negligible thickness) and export the two bodies as parts that you can manufacture as the molds. As far as I'm aware F1 uses silicone grips for their wheels.
I love this channel!! Your charisma,positive attitude and outlook on everything is hellacious.. I’m laughing almost through the whole video on top of following what you’re doing for the build!! Your race car is going to be amazing. Can’t wait till it’s on the track💪🏼🔥🔥🔥🚀🤣❤️🙏🏻
Use dark paint in the engraved numbers. The contrast should help with readability. Or just fill them with sparkly powder and CA glue like Wyrmwood does sometimes
I absolutely do not trust my layup skills to have a wheel not explode. At least with aluminum it probably won't catastrophically fail immediately. I love the enthusiasm though!
This is so cool. Seriously. Here's a couple suggestions about the electronics: That Arduino has non volatile memory. You'll get so tired of that initialize thinking unless you just save the state into the non volatile and that should be very simple to do. Ditch Arduino, they're terrible. An ESP32, Teensy, or Pi Pico will do the job better than Arduino and they're hobbyist products. You can even program those in the Arduino IDE. Professionally I'm an embedded engineer so I don't know if that makes my Arduino dislike a bias or an expert opinion lol Whatever you do don't let any of these control safety critical functions, especially not any Atmel (Arduino) chip. Also, learn about nets and net labeling on your schematic. It'll make debugging or revisions way easier and it looks infinitely better.
Just amazing... Why take the easy way, when you can do everything your self type of thing... This project will be a lifetime achievement for anyone with all the help in the world... But your doing almost anything pretty much solo... I have so much little stuff (the list grows longer then what my lazy ass can do) to do but nothing compared to this... I'm soo lazy though, I probably could do everything on the list in a week or two... but I usually do one little thing once a week... Can not decide what I want to do first, fix my solar setup the way I want, fix my Raspberry pie thing projects or my AI setup or clean the house... I probably watch you with a beer instead...
I like the wheels, and I like that you can make the center sections yourself! I am a font snob so I totally get the time spent on finding the right one. It has nothing at all to do with my job, but I can't wait until serifs become cool again. if you a decent dpi monitor (I'm writing this on a 15.4" with 4K), serifs look awfully nice. There is nothing at all crazy about putting a v12 in a 550kg car. There is however much craziness in putting 200HP in an average bloated 1800kg car.
I love the idea of the skeletonized analog speedo/tack, but honestly a well chosen backlit backing plate with tasteful legible font would be pretty damn sweet in it’s own right. The new Bugatti Tourbillon has something similar, which I’m sure you’re aware of. That said, I wouldn’t give up on the skeletonized approach just yet, because if you can make it legible/pop, it would be quite amazing.
Realisticly... If you design the Hubs to a 2 Piece Design so each Hub has 2 parts that Clamp together you might just get away with the wrong Stock!!, idk if its possible but from a machinists Standpoint that would be the ideal way to do this and somehow get away with the wrong size stock :)
Not shown: Many hours picking out fun fonts. Yes there was a comic sans racecar dashboard for a minute, thanks for asking
Edit: Also! I’ll put the files to this in the video description for free this evening, if you wanna make one yourself.
DANGER TO MANIFOLD
@@zachmaster426 transistor font would be fun for that message
Greatworl ,plz continue❤
also not shown: the thing in use?????
Go with Word not Photoshop and you can incorporate template borders with your Western Saloon fonts.
Babe wake up, the crazy guy has uploaded twice in one month!
It’s a Christmas miracle!
@@WesleyKaganfound your channel forever ago and can say without a shadow of a doubt hope that eventually I become the engineer you are today, your ability to pick up all aspects of engineering is inspiring 😊
@@WesleyKagana Festivus miracle!!
@@WesleyKaganlove the channel! Really keen to see how the car turns out!
This is crazy. I'm glad you use your genius for cars and not evil.
Bold of you to assume I don’t moonlight as a 60’s Bond villain
Next project: ”I build a working 60’s nuclear ICB from scratch with modern avionics and targeting systems!”
@@WesleyKaganPLEASE!!! I’d love to see a skit vid about that
Rarely like videos and the ones i do are mostly for my own reference. You’re legend mate don’t ever stop.
@@WesleyKagan actually, now the hair/beard style and your voice makes more sense! as a 60’s Bond villain
a video in less than 8 months >>>>>>>>>> my boy grindin
>don’t post a video for 8 months
>post 2 in 11 days
>answer no questions
>leave
@@WesleyKaganjust don’t leave for too long 🙏🏼
Maybe the most ridiculous thing on CarTube and I love you for it.
That’s kinda my thing I think
"All of the screws on this are M4s except the ones that aren't". Felt that
This episode just made me feel dumb. Inspired. But dumb. And that's a dangerous combination.
I mean I’m watchin a video and this guys is making a steering wheel that would cost I would say 250,000$ in research and development.
I was going to start my day... now im going to start my day in 15 minutes :D
Youve been busy watching as many vids as me haha! I guess that means your projects are finished? Right! RIGHT!!
maybe some polished wood handles would work great with the steering wheel and add to the retro look
You’re a mad man, I love it
PEOPLE rejoice! We have been blessed with 2 videos of the Holy Wesley Kagan in least than 2 weeks time!!! Spread the word all around!
Nextion is great for prototypes, I found it wasn't up to task for prime time. I like the Riverdi displays with the stm32 which has a ton more power than the atmel in the arduino nano. That may be a whole other can of worms though. It was for me.
I love mechanical Dial, how about making the printed cogs out of aluminum and anodizing them black? Another suggestion for the needle is to make it fluorecent/glow in the dark so it is a little more visible in low light conditions, because the display might get some poor visibility due to sun glare.
If you colour in your numbers with some enamel paint, then sand them back down flat it will create cool contrast for the dials.
You could even colour some of the speeds differently so that you can know when you're hitting some of the rounder numbers.
Thank you for sharing this project with us. Its an absolute joy to watch. Vibes from Budapest.
I love that you actually went through with it, you actually spliced in random clips of atomic nonsense.
3:37 THAT grin. Finally, the cat has ALL the cream!!!
I need to somehow convince you to go ESP32, you will love the ecosystem... Maybe on the next project!
You could (for the grips) design a thin wall section rubber grip and get them vacuum cast, which is a really affordable way of producing rubber grips, have done it before on a work project. These rubber grips could then be bonded to your TPU current grips.
FWIW, autorouters should be used sparingly anyway, you'll get best results by doing the bulk of the routing manually, then you use the auto router to route specific traces that you're struggling with.
There is a phrase.. smashing Gnats with sledgehammers. I think the level of overcomplication you employ to everything is at a level that is truly surprising. THat is by no means a insult. I think.. just because you can.. doesn't mean you should is something to think of. THANKFULLY..... you are focusing the chaotic energy for creation and overcomplication on ONE project.. and have "finished" it multiple times now. SO its only getting better. Which is a rolling pile of success. SO yeah. HUGE Congrats on being able to "finish" steps along the way.. make it work.. then redesign. Instead of dropping the project to the woulda shoulda coulda land.
Your wheel is pretty cool. If you need an alternative to the Arduino Nano, you can use a more modern Raspi Pico (about 4$) with more IOs, with probably enough memory & cpu to drive a LCD directly (about 20$ for a 3.5" lcd module).
Most impressed with post frequency… oh, yes, and content! This is my favorite project channel, huge Lotus 49 fan, and love the obscure engineering, modern methods on the classic open wheel design.
Oh look, the man who could take over the world has built another steering wheel! It's lovely!
Brilliant Wesley!! Car looks absolutely epic. The steering wheel is quality, analog output is all class. Building your own upright, IMO, is the final stage of going from extreme modification to I built this car. Incredible.
Dude you are a super impressive builder and video creator. It’s not easy to document while creating like this. The caliber of your project is very high too. Keep it up! You’re on track to get that UA-camr inertia wheel going ✊
- guy using a hammer at his mill
- me knowing he knows what he does.
You did an awesome job! Wish I had my own mill (good thing is that two friend have milling workshops so at least every now and then between series they can make parts an prototyping is done by the 3d printer)
I absolutely love how complex the steering wheel is and how many different skill and knowledge basis are needed to develop it all with the required deep dive and learning process of each one to make it happen. I know the normal progression of design is meant to be less mechanically complex and less analogue, but this is just outright fun.
I also take on many projects and interests, (though at a much lower level) that require whole new skillsets and equipment. I love the challenge.
Though I'm still trying to get a successful 1st print (30 fails so far) out of my 1st 3D printer. I'll blame not growing up with computers and finishing school before the internet existed. :)
That tach/speedo combo looks like something that belongs in a Zonda. That's pretty awesome!
This is so cool.
for anyone interested on the Arduino/display portion of this sort of stuff, you can check out a youtuber called upir who does a bunch or Arduino display stuff with an emphasis on automotive things. like boost gauges and gear position indicators etc. he goes into a LOT of detail.
Thanks for the shoutout!
@@upir_upir no problem, you make great, detailed videos.
Gotta tell you, making things more complicated than they need to be is a whole mood.
I subbed after the freevalve miata, and havent regretted it ever. While your upload schedule is... curious, it just adds to the fun, and the progress over the *checks notes* 3 years has been great to watch.
I want to thank you Wesley for being this genius and uploading it to UA-cam!
So much crazy stuff, all of it wonderful. A wheel-mounted, steam punk speedo/tach in a scratch built 60's F1 tribute with a V12? Why not.
I have enormous faith in you, even so making your own wheel centres seems pretty edgy.
Hey man, love your ingenuity and how you just think - fuck it - and get sarted wirth shit!
Keep up the video flow!
Clock makers are amazing. So is your wheel! Love it!
There's nothing more satisfying than starting with a piece of metal and finishing with something you've poured your heart into! I love the content and I had no idea you could have your own PCB board made!
That think is a peace of art. Love the analog speedo! Realy great that you made a whole video about it. I hope the next video comes as fast as this one came after the last one. Great work!
Just incredible, a real inspiration every video
i would put a little bit of knurling on the little glossy buttons.
i also like the look of the metal dial for the speed, but i think it would work better if you could make it lighter.
i want a speedo on my wheel now lol thanks
Yeah, the buttons and the dials I’m thinking will get some work to make them less cheap looking.
Oh now I see there are 3 of us! Wesley is a man after my own heart and apparently also after yours. Theres definitely nothing better than self indulgent quest's that serve no purpose other than to please ourselves wouldnt you agree?
PCB took two days. Easy....not. You are the master of understatement. I'm glad you did it.
Mad respect anyone who takes the time to learn new skills and put them to use is awesome, just don't forget there is a community out there that can help you fine tune those skills or help make things more efficient (When i worked in IT did that all the time, i could read code and tell you how it worked but programing wasn't my strong suit an amazed how often someone could change my 100s of lines into a few or create a funtion to do what i was trying to do)
Keep it up and i will keep watching :)
This is incredible and I loved every minute of this. I’m excited to see more
Awesome. No idea what you just said, but a good result and I like the wheels, so that's nice for everyone.
The bronze coloured wheels at 11:25 look awesome
You're a genius! I would paint the speed numbers in some bright color like red for example, it would look cool through that gap
"I can pretend like I know what Im doing when it comes to programming, I dont. I over spec the hardware and then write bad code" I will save this one, thanks!
The mechanical speedo/tach is SO COOL. I like the 3 piece wheel idea but part of me wants to see wire wheels on thsi car with knock off hubs....
The retro aspect of this car refers to late sixties single seaters such as the 67 Lotus 49. Those were past the point of wire wheels. That said, this is SCREAMING for coffin spoke wheels! Bronze colored, obviously.
All the progress and work is amazing to see!
This project is just sick, hat is off to you Sir. You are a genius
this is incredible, i'm truly fascinated by this steering wheel build.
just a super quick comment on grips - before you go with something complex/final/expensive, it might be worth buying various sporting grip tapes / bar wraps and seeing if they suit? tennis racquet, cricket bat, and possibly most suited to the job - bike drop bar tape. you'll be able to play around with the thickness, squishiness, and texture at a pretty cheap price and low effort. you could try like ten different options for 100 bucks in the space of a couple hours of fiddling around. oh, also from the world of motorbikes, there's fake leather grip tape around too.
very easy to install (including around weird shapes and joins). i'm an idiot and i have successfully changed bike grip tape multiple times.
u are a man of many talents. really impressive. thank you for another fun video.
The gold and black wheels would look awesome on that machine. Thanks for uploading, please keep doing it 😉
You certainly have a diverse range of skills! Great work!
Get a multi color pack of Play-Doh Foam, mix all the colors together and cover the handle in it. It conforms really well to your grip, holds its shape perfectly. It's made from clearly defined points with different colors by default, making it perfect for any type of scanning.
This is my favorite youtube channel by far
Wesley out here doing Gods work yet again
I love the mechanical bits! So cool.
I've got a few findings from making digidashes that only become apparent after you've had a bunch of seat time staring at one.
Having some sort of hysteresis is really important to stop vales from just constantly flicking from 99 to 100 and back (or whatever)
I just kept a value called rpm.displayed (or whatever) and if the new value hasnt changed by a big enough jump from the old value, it'll just keep the old one there.
Below 4000rpm I would only show rpm changes in 50rpm increments, then only in 500 rpm increments when going accelerating a lot faster.
Anything where you are displaying numbers, that is say 4 or 5 digits long. It's way quicker to break this into 4 separate updatable values in the Nextion, so the number of pixels it needs to update is reduced. I ended up using bitmaps for each number, so I could antialias the font so it looked a bit sharper.
I found that the Nextion cant really update fast enough for a shift bar to be practical, but using a nextion screen in conjunction with some neopixel LED bars was in INCREDIBLE combo.
As the LEDs have an insanely fast update rate, and super bright as well. You can actually pack a really amazing density of information into a simple LED bar, because you can use the bar colour to indicate information (like engine temp) but then use the bar moving across as a shift bar or rpm indicator.
Or make the bar flash as a warning light for any sort of low pressure or high temp or whatever.
When you have a shift bar, if it just travels from left to right then it's actually quite hard to gauge when to shift - as you have to be looking out for where your bar is up to, and also where the end is.
If you have two bars that travel towards each other and meet in the center, it's really easy to anticipate the best shifting time just with your peripheral vision.
I've also noticed that although F1 steering wheels have a whole lot of LEDs on them, they only display in 3 or 4 steps rather than a bar that gradually increases.
I think this is because it's distracting watchin a bar creep up, compared to having to only register 3 discrete changes to help anticipate the shift time.
If you have a touch screen version of the Nextion you can take off the front layer of the screen (the touch panel part) you get a less glossy finish that is easier to see when the sun is over your shoulder.
Otherwise if it's too glossy even like that, can just find a 3rd party LCD screen with a matte finish and swap it in, so long as the ribbon cable and resolution is the same it's worked for me that way.
I found a 500Nit matte finish screen and it was remarkably betterer.
Having a really "busy" looking display is cool to start with, and okay for when you are trundling along.
But makes it really hard to read important values when you're going 10/10ths.
So having it switch to a new page that is just high contrast text / bars only works really well for when you're say over 70% throttle and over 4000rpm (or whatever)
with a cooldown timer so it's not switching back and forth a lot.
When you're also trying to make the screen as visible as possible, high contrast colours (yellow or white) make for a good readable display that you only need to glance at.
I found that generating features in Nextion using the available primitive commands is by far the quickest way to do things.
Like for drawing a bar graph, it's actually quicker to draw the outside box, the inside box, and a box depicting the value. Than it is to use the crappy premade stuff.
Having context sensitive screens and being able to flash a big "PULL OVER AND STOP THE ENGINE, STUPID" warnings are 100% the best feature of a digidash I reckon.
Thanks for coming to my unsolicited TED talk on digidashes.
Awesome video and congrats on finishing the steering wheel.
Looking forward to the wheels production video
Cant wait for jalopnik to remember you exist lol
You just reminded me jalopnik exists.
When you make the brass gears you could try using some brass black solution to darken them. They don't have to be polished brass color.
The dial looks sweet!
You should have at least a million subscribers. This is gold.
Phenominal work, I am very jealous of your skills and creativity
Thanks for making the files available. I'm using it as a reference for my speedway car. Running micro squirt, custom cam triggers, wasted gate spark and more data then I could ever need on my little 4g54 engine wideblock😮. Thanks again.
You have great taste in music 3:20
Love seeing more build stuff!
Bro!.........Your a savant! Well done, I thought only I was that pedantic but alas.......there is you! Thank you it was getting lonely out here.
You're a mad man ! I rarely comment but cheers from a french engineer
Loving this, so professional yet so chaotic, and two videos in a month??what else could you ask for
Emphasis on the chaotic haha. Yeah! I'm being a good youtuber!
Keep going and keep posting we are all travelling with you. Great progress.
"Bearded hobo continues to build his shopping cart insanity as local law enforcements try to stop him. The chief of police says that there is no need for panic as the shopping cart still cannot move on its own power. Make sure to stay tuned to Channel 4 for this coverage on CNN"
One of my favorite projects on YT for sure
11:24 looks nice
Let's go Wesley
The wheels at 11: 21, 11:23, and 11:24 are all awesome.
The world is a better place when maniac inventors like you are allowed to do whatever you want. I'm not a big sticker or poster guy, but have you considered selling pixels in the final livery to supporters? I don't care how long it takes to come to fruition, I'd pitch in.
Love the video love the build
Super awesome stuff! Keep it up!
12:45 yeah, that's still better code than what I see in my job as a professional software engineer
I had dreams of doing something similar when I was about 12 years old. Then I realized that I have no practical skills and had no clue where to even begin. It’s good to see someone with skills and motivation to make this happen. Can’t wait for the next one.
This project becomes better every time you post
You could probably fix those solder joints buying and using a lot of flux and increase the temperature on your soldering iron.
Great to watch!
Wesley, you're doing great work. I too settled on Arduino and Nextion for the directness of embedded code. I'm using KiCAD EDA software but the results should be the same. I started but did not finish, yet, gauges that use rolled strips of graphics to get an old school but unique looking linear gauge set.
I have not made all made all the Nextion gauge art slick yet. My engine swap I/O project has Arduino Mega2560, 9 PWMs and 11 A/Ds but covers for my failures using CAN bus. I fail so most of the time but keep at so get a fair amount done. Others think I'm good at this stuff. I'm not, only stubborn.
You do everything so very nicely. I love the sheetmetal processes.
It is great to see others doing full stand alone EFI. Mine is full closed loop sequential on a MGB with a crossflow head using MegaSquirt MS3-Pro. As I have no prior experience on many things I had to teach myself to weld in order to make manifolds. I spend way too long on everything but versions two through four go much faster.
Thanks for inspiring us to keep trying.
Keep workin man! Awesome.
I enjoy the videos keep up the great work!
make the grips out of molded silicone,
I know in Solidworks you can essentially take any 3d model and subtract it from an extrusion feature.
You can then slice that body with a extruded cut (with a negligible thickness) and export the two bodies as parts that you can manufacture as the molds.
As far as I'm aware F1 uses silicone grips for their wheels.
I love this channel!! Your charisma,positive attitude and outlook on everything is hellacious..
I’m laughing almost through the whole video on top of following what you’re doing for the build!!
Your race car is going to be amazing. Can’t wait till it’s on the track💪🏼🔥🔥🔥🚀🤣❤️🙏🏻
We love your crazy shenanigans Wes!
this is going to be one for the books!
Use dark paint in the engraved numbers. The contrast should help with readability. Or just fill them with sparkly powder and CA glue like Wyrmwood does sometimes
It’s gotta be exhausting being this smart. 3 piece wheels are cool. Make the centers out of carbon fiber.
I absolutely do not trust my layup skills to have a wheel not explode. At least with aluminum it probably won't catastrophically fail immediately. I love the enthusiasm though!
@@WesleyKagan , Mike Patey has some mad layup skills! check out some of his airplane builds! Scrappy is a good one!
An OZ chrono inspired 3 piece would look cool on your chariot
Love your work Wesley
This is so cool. Seriously. Here's a couple suggestions about the electronics:
That Arduino has non volatile memory. You'll get so tired of that initialize thinking unless you just save the state into the non volatile and that should be very simple to do.
Ditch Arduino, they're terrible. An ESP32, Teensy, or Pi Pico will do the job better than Arduino and they're hobbyist products. You can even program those in the Arduino IDE. Professionally I'm an embedded engineer so I don't know if that makes my Arduino dislike a bias or an expert opinion lol Whatever you do don't let any of these control safety critical functions, especially not any Atmel (Arduino) chip.
Also, learn about nets and net labeling on your schematic. It'll make debugging or revisions way easier and it looks infinitely better.
This man is a national treasure!
This is the first video of yours I’ve seen and WOW!
A masterclass in craftsmanship
Just amazing... Why take the easy way, when you can do everything your self type of thing... This project will be a lifetime achievement for anyone with all the help in the world... But your doing almost anything pretty much solo... I have so much little stuff (the list grows longer then what my lazy ass can do) to do but nothing compared to this... I'm soo lazy though, I probably could do everything on the list in a week or two... but I usually do one little thing once a week... Can not decide what I want to do first, fix my solar setup the way I want, fix my Raspberry pie thing projects or my AI setup or clean the house... I probably watch you with a beer instead...
I like the wheels, and I like that you can make the center sections yourself! I am a font snob so I totally get the time spent on finding the right one. It has nothing at all to do with my job, but I can't wait until serifs become cool again. if you a decent dpi monitor (I'm writing this on a 15.4" with 4K), serifs look awfully nice.
There is nothing at all crazy about putting a v12 in a 550kg car. There is however much craziness in putting 200HP in an average bloated 1800kg car.
I love the idea of the skeletonized analog speedo/tack, but honestly a well chosen backlit backing plate with tasteful legible font would be pretty damn sweet in it’s own right. The new Bugatti Tourbillon has something similar, which I’m sure you’re aware of. That said, I wouldn’t give up on the skeletonized approach just yet, because if you can make it legible/pop, it would be quite amazing.
Realisticly... If you design the Hubs to a 2 Piece Design so each Hub has 2 parts that Clamp together you might just get away with the wrong Stock!!, idk if its possible but from a machinists Standpoint that would be the ideal way to do this and somehow get away with the wrong size stock :)
My man’s merch store includes actual car parts. Amazing.