This is the repository of BTTF Delorean Ultimate Board.
Those sample code are shared to help you to implement additional extensibility for your Delorean Model.
They have been developped to work with our Ultimate Board.
Ultimate Board instruction Manual is available on this link : https://tinyurl.com/UltimateBoard
More information on Ultimate Board can be found here : https://www.facebook.com/groups/3DynamicsDesigns/permalink/1872951202854355/
Ultimate Board in Action video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GSnsW_yHhA&ab_channel=AdrianDinca
Instruction to upload code into Arduino can be found there : https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Environment#uploading
Instruction to install Arduino library can be found there (We recommand using library manager): https://docs.arduino.cc/software/ide-v1/tutorials/installing-libraries
Information about Arduino Leonardo : https://docs.arduino.cc/retired/getting-started-guides/ArduinoLeonardoMicro
Useful link that helps troubleshooting arduino issue : https://www.instructables.com/5-Most-Common-Arduino-Nano-Clone-Problems-and-Thei/
Build The Back To The Future Delorean - UnMount Guide : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHm0rGTAkS8
Serial Monitor configuration must be set to 115200 baud to be able to see debug logs on the UI.
For Arduino Leonardo only (with custom dashboard electronic board):
- For Normal mode, DEBUG variable must be commented when board is plugged only to the car.
- For debuging mode, DEBUG variable must be uncommented when mini usb is plugged to the computer //#define DEBUG 1.
DEBUG variable must be commented in car usage or arduino will start with 3s delay and fails to join Mainboard I2C Bus.
Do not forget to power both ultimate board and Extensibility Arduino as specified in the following schema.
If you forget to power ultimate board or extensibility ardunio then you may have issue with IC2 Communication.
The result will fail arduino's communication and keep Flux Capacitor in infinite loop without fluxing when required.
In order to protect leds it is required to use resistor to lower current that the led get from the power source. Depending on the led color and the led specification you need to adjust the resistor value.
We recommand using for 5V with 20mA the following resistor to protect your leds :
- Red : 220 Ohm
- Orange : 220 Ohm
- Green : 180 Ohm
- Blue : 120 Ohm
- White : 120 Ohm
On Arduino we can use PWM pin instead of resistor to lower current that led received to protect them.
On the following diagram led marked with '*' are placed on PWM pin and code use this feature.
Please check the forward voltage of the led you are using to adjust the resistor value or pwm value.
PWM value are set to deliver the following voltage :
- Red : 1,96V
- Green : 2,05V
- Blue : 2.45V
This Extensibility allows to sync Ultimate Board with Dashboard Modification.
This Extensibility allows to sync Ultimate Board with Led Strip Flames and delorean hovermod.
This extensibility requires additional arduino libraries as :
- Adafruit NeoPixel (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_NeoPixel)
- FastLED (https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED)
