tail light idea
My thought is to mold a diffuser for the perimeter light and have it filled with LEDs. Then do three LED grids, one for each taillight side and one for the center section. That way the sides could be programmed for some really cool turning/braking animations... and text 
. Would mean the same thing for the center, could do a ford logo exploding instead of the bird, whatever you want. How good that would look would depend on how many LEDs you could squish in there.
. Would mean the same thing for the center, could do a ford logo exploding instead of the bird, whatever you want. How good that would look would depend on how many LEDs you could squish in there.[/QUOTE] I'm going to Photoshop another idea tonight, for the hell of it.[/QUOTE]
put it up when you make it!!
Staging Lane
Joined: Oct 2012
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From: Midland, VA
This gets my vote. Although as far as manufacturing goes I could easily see the consumer paying over $1000 for a piece like that. Problem is the manufacturers feel that no consumers would pay that kind of money for it. I'm going to Photoshop another idea tonight, for the hell of it.
I'm eager to see what you can mock up, my design skills are seriously lacking... haha
One of these days I'm going to try it. It's not going to be for awhile though since it's probably going to be expensive and time consuming to get right.
If some one is down to make the LED boards I can make the flush taillight piece. Or I like the idea of keeping the honey comb and them only coming on when you brake or sequential turn signals.
Staging Lane
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From: Midland, VA
If you wanted to keep the honeycomb pattern you could cut up a strip like this one and put a single LED in each honeycomb shaped hole. That would let you still do things like sequential turn signals and different colors.
Unfortunately I don't have the time (much less funds) to build LED boards at the moment. I did look around a little bit though and I found these boards. They aren't exactly cheap but they are just about the right size to fit in a taillight assembly. I don't know what kind of brightness is required for backup lights but these will go white, and just about any other color for that matter. By my rough guesstimation, two of these side by side should be able to do a fairly good representation of a firebird logo and of course any kind of turn animation you can imagine.
If you wanted to keep the honeycomb pattern you could cut up a strip like this one and put a single LED in each honeycomb shaped hole. That would let you still do things like sequential turn signals and different colors.
If you wanted to keep the honeycomb pattern you could cut up a strip like this one and put a single LED in each honeycomb shaped hole. That would let you still do things like sequential turn signals and different colors.
Staging Lane
Joined: Jun 2014
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From: Texas
maybe new school with a flair of oldschool?like, just the surrounding ring and the lines show up when the brake is hit? my shop skills are so bad i use paint, but i did pick up some 94 v6 tails id like to mod, might use EL wire, great idea btw guys....cough cough, sorry all the dust i wiped off this got in my lungs
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new school with a flair of oldschool?like, just the surrounding ring and the lines show up when the brake is hit? my shop skills are so bad i use paint, but i did pick up some 94 v6 tails id like to mod, might use EL wire, great idea btw guys....cough cough, sorry all the dust i wiped off this got in my lungs
Staging Lane
Joined: Oct 2012
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From: Midland, VA
new school with a flair of oldschool?like, just the surrounding ring and the lines show up when the brake is hit? my shop skills are so bad i use paint, but i did pick up some 94 v6 tails id like to mod, might use EL wire, great idea btw guys....cough cough, sorry all the dust i wiped off this got in my lungs
Personally I think I'd want to stick with some sort of diffused LED setup. That way you can animate things like turn signals, and timely messages to the drivers behind you
new school with a flair of oldschool?like, just the surrounding ring and the lines show up when the brake is hit? my shop skills are so bad i use paint, but i did pick up some 94 v6 tails id like to mod, might use EL wire, great idea btw guys....cough cough, sorry all the dust i wiped off this got in my lungs
I was just thinking about a similar idea last month but haven't gotten around to Photoshopping it. I was about to a couple weeks ago, since it seems like an easy way to do it. It'd be close to this idea, but change the circles to lines. Thread/post: https://ls1tech.com/forums/appearanc...l#post18653521
Staging Lane
Joined: Jun 2014
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From: Texas
no EL wire been doing some research, EL wire doesnt seem bright enough, probably do a hard core LED strip and diffuse them (thanks for the idea btw) , a little bit of sand paper goes along way,i think this can be done, soon as im done with the projector/demon eye project imma jump on these v6 tails i have
