My Gloria

[ph2t]

I’ve been workin on this car for a while now. It’s been in the garage on and off over the last month. Hope you all like it as much as I do. She’s great for a bit of night driving.

Her specs:

Custom lights setup using my 5V DCDC Convertor PCB.
Spring suspension
Green gloria shell painted with Holden Gunmetal duplicolour autopaint
DoubleStacked mosfet H-Bridge
Guitar string antenna
150mAh NiMh Battery
Custom modified Bit-CharG rims.
EM3.0 motor, orange gears.

Yum!

ph2t.

Edited by – ph2t on 13 October 2003 14:51:38

[ph2t]

Here’s some shots of how I did all the (very messy) wiring.

As you can see I’m using one of my little 5V light PCB’s to run the leds, in this photo I have it hooked up to a 3V lithium for testing. The 3V doesn’t really matter since I get the same output from a 1.2V source anyways.

Here you can see how the front white and blue leds are mounted. I made sure to keep the light fixtures clear so I had masked them before painting. I’m a big fan of using surface mount leds and not drilling holes through the shell, that’s just me. I put a drop of superglue on the area and then hold the led to it to ensure its flush and I get a good contact so the light from the led gets a much brightness through the plastic as possible.

The same goes for the rear lights. Dang there’s a lot of wires there!

The Rims

The rims were made from normal Bit-CharG rims with some putty(bluetak) and some masking/painting.

First I bogged up every other spoke. I then used a cut up eraser to flatten the surface of the bluetak. Bluetak is used to hang posters n stuff so it’s pretty soft and prone to warping.

Once that was done I then masked the outer edge of the rim to keep the silver edge. I also masked the inside surface of the centre hub to keep it silver as well. Lookin’ a bit freaky at the moment, lol.

I then spraypainted it white. Approx 3 coats giving about 10 minutes drying in between. Once it had dried fully I then removed all the blutak and I got this. Pretty cool!

The front rims were done using the same method. They might be pretty small but it’s still achievable.

Once all the rims were done I threw them on the chassis and we are cool to go.

Yeah baby!

ph2t.

[barto_85]

nice work ph2t, looks great. nice whells, and as always, nice electronic work.

[DaveF]

I’ve been tempted to go down the same road with the wiring stuck to the body. You’ve convinced me to give up on a light set to swap between shells, and just have a body that has lights.

Love the wheel idea. Good result. Should leave longer between coats though, unless the pait says recoat after 10 minutes. Rushing the coats will give a less smooth result, and a light sand between coats does wonders too.

[jamiekulhanek]

Awesome!! That looks so cool.

[DaveF]

You’re enterring that in the Comp, yeah!!?!?!!

[micro_Amps]

Good stuff ph2t, love the wheel idea, might look good in other colours too.
:)uA

[ph2t]

Quote:

You’re enterring that in the Comp, yeah!!?!?!!

A few touchups are requred first. Gotta do the old “paint the inside black” mod to it first to realy make the lights how I want them.:p

ph2t.

[ph2t]

Here’s some custom ph2ty video action:

http://www.prahranpianos.com/bit_g/day_final.avi

Divx format of course, if you don’t have divx got kick your own arse then visit http://www.divx.com.

ph2t.

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