Gloria, what a bitchin' name.....

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:40 am

Finally finished the biatch. At 1:40am too.....

Hope you enjoy, she's got 6 freakin' LEDs on her, runtime is still cool. Video comin' soon. Sleep now......

ph2t.

VooDooMafia · Post by **VooDooMafia** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:34 am

Nice

Now you need to set the leds up so then you turn the car that will blink on the coresponding sides

Post by **CaboWabo** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:38 am

that's dope dude, guess blinkers are next? lol

barto_85 · Post by **barto_85** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:32 am

damn nice work ph2t.

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:05 am

I've actually done blinkers a while ago, gotta whip out the old circuit diagrams and see what I can come up with. I was thinking of putting a yellow led on the inside of the roof to give it that glow that comes from an internal light in one's car. I'll see what I can whip up.

Here's some shots of how I did all the (very messy) wiring.

As you can see I'm using one of my little 5V light PCB's to run the leds, in this photo I have it hooked up to a 3V lithium for testing. The 3V doesn't really matter since I get the same output from a 1.2V source anyways.

Here you can see how the front white and blue leds are mounted. I made sure to keep the light fixtures clear so I had masked them before painting. I'm a big fan of using surface mount leds and not drilling holes through the shell, that's just me. I put a drop of superglue on the area and then hold the led to it to ensure its flush and I get a good contact so the light from the led gets a much brightness through the plastic as possible.

The same goes for the rear lights. Dang there's a lot of wires there!

The Rims

The rims were made from normal Bit-CharG rims with some putty(bluetak) and some masking/painting.

First I bogged up every other spoke. I then used a cut up eraser to flatten the surface of the bluetak. Bluetak is used to hang posters n stuff so it's pretty soft and prone to warping.

Once that was done I then masked the outer edge of the rim to keep the silver edge. I also masked the inside surface of the centre hub to keep it silver as well. Lookin' a bit freaky at the moment, lol.

I then spraypainted it white. Approx 3 coats giving about 10 minutes drying in between. Once it had dried fully I then removed all the blutak and I got this. Pretty cool!

The front rims were done using the same method. They might be pretty small but it's still achievable.

Once all the rims were done I threw them on the chassis and we are cool to go.

Yeah baby!

ph2t.

brendan123 · Post by **brendan123** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 6:11 am

nice work ph2t

you would have to be carefull with them wheels not to poke the the blue tak out, great idea thou

hue35 · Post by **hue35** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:28 am

I really dig what you did with the wheels... they're badass.

payaso · Post by **payaso** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:58 pm

At this stage in the hobby, it's harder to get things done that have not been seen before, but ph2t seems to have a handle on that aspect...

Very cool man... You had me at the word Gloria...lol

silla

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:24 pm

Excellent idea on those rims, they look great!

I just may have to try that myself.

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:47 pm

Thanks fellas,

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Now where would a flossin' post of mine be without some video:

http://www.prahranpianos.com/bit_g/day_final.avi

Divx format of course. This one's got a very lounge lizard style soundtrack care of uncle Lenny.

ph2t.

cyco · Post by **cyco** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 7:53 pm

thats a sweet car dood is it running a 1.0?

VooDooMafia · Post by **VooDooMafia** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 7:56 pm

Nice vid

Like me all hardwood...OOOOO the fun one can have

HirotoR34 · Post by **HirotoR34** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:09 pm

that's pretty badass. I like the custom rims, and the led's are sweet!

noxorc · Post by **noxorc** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 6:18 am

Love the rims....great job.

the lights came out very nice too.