DIY shift knob gets a nice integrated LED gear indicator

DIY shifter button gets A beautiful integrated DIRECTED gear indicator

Arduino Team — April the 23, 2024

We recently covered Vaclav Krejci stick change project, In which he designed A advice that surrounded THE change lever And uses Room effect sensors has detect It is position. He SO poster THE current gear on A little OLED screen. THE idea was that THE user could to go up that screen everywhere that they research on THE dashboard Or center console. But NOW Krejci East back with A more satisfying solution: A DIRECTED display built In THE shifter button himself.

THE rest of THE material, next to Since THE display, East THE even. A custom PCB surrounded THE change lever And contains THE Room effect sensors. Jumper cables connect those has A shield on A Arduino UN Rev3, which looks has THE signals Since THE sensors And calculated THE approximate position of A permanent magnet attached has THE change lever. That position tell THE Arduino THE current equipment.

THE difference East In how he poster THE gear has THE user. Before, he was A coward OLED screen. NOW, he East A bright Pimoroni 7×11 DIRECTED matrix display integrated In THE shifter button. THE button East A cheap secondary market model that Krejci amended For This project. He deleted THE high half of THE button And replaced he with A 3D printed version with A cavity Or THE DIRECTED matrix can sit. A leaf of tinted translucent Plastic help has broadcast THE light And hide All otherwise.

This looks absolutely fantastic And would be be Really cool has see In A car.