Well, seems like the conclusions article was not the end of the story for my little car upgrade. After installation one big issue is that there’s no actual access to the car’s computer to input the lock and unlock signals. I also have to found any comprehensive diagram of the …
Building the module has been an interesting experience. I tried something new (at least for me) on the circuit. I didn’t talk much about the circuit used to power all of this in the other articles because I purchased an off the shelf module. To be more exact I opted …
Let’s hit this nail on the head. Last time I talked about some general considerations regarding the code. Now I want to go through the code in blocks and, hopefully, give you an understanding of what I did and why I did it for you to know what works or, …
After assembling the hardware on a breadboard, I started experimenting with the code. I also got the remote handy, remember in a previous posting I talked that the head unit came with a small remote. Just as a reminder the head unit is a CDX-GT410U and the remote is model …
Now let’s look at designing a circuit to run the mess of cables I have shown in the last posting. The resulting circuit needs to be able to: Transmit an infrared signal to control the car radio. This will be accomplished by an infrared led controlled by one of my …
Reverse engineeringReverse engineering, the puzzle part. Well reverse engineering in the sense that I will take apart the steering wheel controls and figure out how to connect them to my circuit. After taking out the controls from the wheel I am left with the 2 rows of buttons that go …
