I'll start off by saying that I did go to school for electronics a few years back, but primarily I dealt with PLC's and wiring, not so much engineering.
I recently became disable and had to get rid of my car for a truck that doesn't have a couple features that I'm used to, and want to put them into this one. For now, I'll just focus on the compass and do the others later.
I never got into microcontrollers and am not sure if I want to buy the programming software equipment. Unless it'd be more cost effective than buying a bunch of IC's
With that being said, I found a good schematic for the compass, but have 2 issues on that: 1)How to drop the voltage down from car supply (12-14) down to a usable 5 without causing huge heat concerns. 2)How to get the output to go from being 4 LEDs to 2 15 segment displays (N,S,E,W;NE,NW,SE,SW)
Thanx,
Justin
I recently became disable and had to get rid of my car for a truck that doesn't have a couple features that I'm used to, and want to put them into this one. For now, I'll just focus on the compass and do the others later.
I never got into microcontrollers and am not sure if I want to buy the programming software equipment. Unless it'd be more cost effective than buying a bunch of IC's
With that being said, I found a good schematic for the compass, but have 2 issues on that: 1)How to drop the voltage down from car supply (12-14) down to a usable 5 without causing huge heat concerns. 2)How to get the output to go from being 4 LEDs to 2 15 segment displays (N,S,E,W;NE,NW,SE,SW)
Thanx,
Justin