GiddyUp15
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So I wired in an Escort radar detector to my car, and found that during top-down driving, especially in daylight, I was missing radar alerts due to the wind and/or radio noise. I thought, man, I'd love to get a HUD to alert me of radar alerts!
Nice thing is that Escort's smart cable (both hardwired and cig lighter versions) have LEDs on them to show power, and flash for alerts, but even when I mounted this on top of my steering column, I'd still miss it during real sunny days. This led me to this experiment, which took forever to figure out but turned out really well!
I at first wanted to "hack" into the factory HUD (if you have adaptive cruise or GT350, you should have this already), but since it is CANBUS controlled, it was looking to be really difficult to figure out and implement (probably still can if I knew how to control a CANBUS module, but I never dug deep enough into it). I had an even better idea...put another LED array inside the HUD module, with a different color, and mod the module to make it fit and work. I chose blue, as it is a "police alert" Plus, it is now different than the hazard alert that the factory red LED array is for, so I can easily differentiate the two when they pop up.
Here's the process of putting the LED array in the module:
Nice thing is that Escort's smart cable (both hardwired and cig lighter versions) have LEDs on them to show power, and flash for alerts, but even when I mounted this on top of my steering column, I'd still miss it during real sunny days. This led me to this experiment, which took forever to figure out but turned out really well!
I at first wanted to "hack" into the factory HUD (if you have adaptive cruise or GT350, you should have this already), but since it is CANBUS controlled, it was looking to be really difficult to figure out and implement (probably still can if I knew how to control a CANBUS module, but I never dug deep enough into it). I had an even better idea...put another LED array inside the HUD module, with a different color, and mod the module to make it fit and work. I chose blue, as it is a "police alert" Plus, it is now different than the hazard alert that the factory red LED array is for, so I can easily differentiate the two when they pop up.
Here's the process of putting the LED array in the module:
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