Thread: Modernity Skin Project Worklog for Fusion Brain

Yeah, there's a lot to it, to do it correctly. it's more than just IF Acutal>Desired => \/HeaterDoor. That's part of it, of course. But it's going to be a bit more elaborate of a process control scheme. It's going to be more of an anticipating, self correcting, .... yeah.,.. a lot like cruise control actually, with perhaps a few more variables, and outputs. I'd be afraid to do cruise control like this, but it's a possibility. A photo sensor will/can be used with this AC setup.

Sunload sensors give an output voltage that is proportional to the solar heat flux it receives. When multiplied by the glass area and a factor that represents the transparency of the glass, a rate of heat introduced into the vehicle by the sun can be found. Almost all modern automatic climate control systems have this.

In fact there was an interesting patent that I found that is actually in use in some newer vehicles where the angle of the sensor is adjusted to give a more accurate signal based on the relationship of the sun-ray's angle to the vehicle and the angle the fact that automtive glass is shielded to some degree at high-noon by the difference of angles and the relatively small area the sun sees. Neat stuff. That one is also split for dual zone climate control. I'm not touching dual yet. I've got my hands full as it is.

It's crazy all the possibillities this thing has. I had quite a few ideas as far as layout was concerned and I like where you're going with yours. How is KITT going to come get you if you're already in the car tho? Whiteboard perhaps?

what if I'm interfacing with my car's PC via remote connection and a PDA.

Yeah, maybe you could even drive the car by remote? Why not? Don't know how the insurance company would feel about that tho... hmmm

Any thoughts on this as an new direction?



Regardless, I'm going to use them to test an idea I had about "press-hold" functionality, and variable rate of change based on length of time a button is pressed, up to a maximum rate.
Which, I think would be pretty cool.

Ok Pick any one of the dials, it doesn't matter to me. Now imagine that dial is a multi-image with the minimum at the 8 oclock position, and maximum at the 4 oclock position. 270deg.
That travel, just like the white arcs, is equated to a variable from 0-100% (percent being of no consequence other than we humans can relate easy so, 0-100). Now place an invisible button on the right and left side of the dial, on top. Pushing the right button increments a variable (X) up and pushing the left does the opposite. Easy so far. Now... what if pushing the button makes another variable (Y) 1 on upclick and 0 on downclick. And within a root function, (A) IF Y==1, X=X+1; (B) another, IF Y==0, X=0; and then another, (C) IF X>=5, X=5; one more function, (D) Z = Z+X. Control the minimum timer setting for function A to control the rate of change (X) of the rate of change (Z) (acceleration), and the ultimate rate of change of Z (speed), which can be controlled by setting the minimum timer setting of D. That's just for the "raise" button. Still easy? It's not too bad. Now, to see if it works...