Barking Mat
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It's only been ten years since they started, got to say it's very very anal detailing.
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Melvyn Best
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New episode is now available apparently
My Old Landy
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I admire the way they want to learn and do things their way. I would have designed and got made a PCB for them. But that's not the point. They said multiple times that they did it their way to keep full control of the process. It has made me think of creating a similar machine based on a 3d printer instead of a mill.
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I get it, but even 3/4/5/6 revisions of a manufactured PCB would have been quicker and cheaper?
It wouldn't, however, have filled an hour long episode
Cynical much?
yeah and with a bit of hot glue it would probably be more robust for testing
what they did looks so painfully inefficient.in that time they could've had a manufactured pcb, prepopulated and a mcu doing the lot
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I feel their pain. I went thru hell getting the dashboard set up on my buggy build. Sensors don't match, gauges don't match with each other. I tried getting Arduino to manage it all but that failed because of electrical noise. Digital dashes either need Canbus (don't have) or want you to install duplicate sensors. I had to give up a lot of my aspirations and settle for a simple dash.
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I built an Arduino based gauge, was additional information for my TD5, the chap who did a lot of the coding had a version for his BMW
To get around noise, I used an isolator that was also a voltage regulator
I had used these when I was deep into car audio and wanted to use bits of kit that were designed to be safely installed in a studio control room, not a car with over 2000w of amps
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I managed to reduce a lot of the noise with capacitors, and a power controller that had a built in filter. But my aspiration was to use an Arduino temp sensor on the engine and that's where lots of noise came from. I probably could have got it working but it was taking up a lot of my time and there were more important things I had to do on the build.
It seems that this is what the series has morphed in to.
They’re not creating YouTube content as a result of the car build. Instead, they’re building a car as a result of YouTube content.
I think it’s great that they just do things the way they want to do it for the sake of doing it that way.
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Seems to me that what they are now doing is stupid and pointless, they'll be inventing square wheels next. Boring.
I watched a few episodes a few years back, have they not built it yet?.
One came up on my suggestions recently but I've not watched it.
Reminds me when I built my Golf 16vG60 engine / ECU. I had mine running within a few weeks, the lad who imported the sister kit to my car took 2 years.
I can see being precise and producing a good quality finished car is the goal but have they genuinely taken 10 years over it??.
One came up on my suggestions recently but I've not watched it.
Reminds me when I built my Golf 16vG60 engine / ECU. I had mine running within a few weeks, the lad who imported the sister kit to my car took 2 years.
I can see being precise and producing a good quality finished car is the goal but have they genuinely taken 10 years over it??.
Yeah it's been 10 years, but they both have day jobs and lives that need living elsewhere. The shed is somewhere in Shropshire and from Richard's postings he lives in the Bedford area, so not exactly convenient for a couple of hours tinkering in the evening.
