TEASER: Custom E90 Ambient Light Controlled LED Angel Eyes

OwnAge · 08-08-2011, 04:21 PM

hehe yea, need a hood. Nice AEs tho

exclusivo · 08-08-2011, 05:26 PM

looks good man.

i know your good with vinyl, try this out for the grills. wrap the grill area with black vinyl and separate the outer grill from the fins. then install the fins without the outer trim. the black vinyl should hide the gaps nicely and the grills will line up better with the top mustache.

fdriller9 · 08-08-2011, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Victorae

WOW. looks amazing! How much are the total cost of supplies? Is this complicated to learn? I've always been interested in learning about this type of stuff

It's about $250-$300 for materials. LEDs, drivers, soldering iron, solder, silicone glue, tweezers, microbrushes (mother is a dentist so these were invaluable lol), dremel (not included in cost), and exacto knives.

Not so much complicated. The logic board is a bit complicated but the soldering and wiring of the LEDs themselves is pretty easy.....very time consuming and tedious though.

fdriller9 · 08-08-2011, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by lemmegetatthat

looks good man.

i know your good with vinyl, try this out for the grills. wrap the grill area with black vinyl and separate the outer grill from the fins. then install the fins without the outer trim. the black vinyl should hide the gaps nicely and the grills will line up better with the top mustache.

Huh. That's sounds interesting. I'm going to have to try that.

I had just the inner slats for bimmerfest east and they didn't look bad except the edges were weird since you can see mounting holes etc. The black vinyl idea sounds like a plan!

Thanks.

Litos · 08-08-2011, 06:49 PM

is it me or do they still look yellowish ???

fdriller9 · 08-08-2011, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Litos

is it me or do they still look yellowish ???

Yea the inner ones. I need to re open the headlight and add 2 more drivers :/ Keep in mind they are also at minimum brightness.

MyE92 · 08-08-2011, 11:47 PM

Did you have these in at Bimmerfest? If I remember correctly, you were the guy who came to the booth with your friend to talk to Marc.

Torn · 08-08-2011, 11:51 PM

Lookin good!

NightStalker · 08-09-2011, 12:07 AM

im glad your car came out great!!! it will be my turn in a few days...my 3m seal just shipped should get it by tom.

i have a question my led's are on a direct connection to the standard h8 bulb wiring, you think with audrino/drivers i can turn up the brightness?

lpphreakx06 · 08-09-2011, 12:53 AM

wo

escobar929 · 08-09-2011, 06:45 AM

they look great, excellent work

fdriller9 · 08-09-2011, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by MyE92

Did you have these in at Bimmerfest? If I remember correctly, you were the guy who came to the booth with your friend to talk to Marc.

Yupp that was me.

Thanks for the compliments guys!

fdriller9 · 08-09-2011, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Romiie

im glad your car came out great!!! it will be my turn in a few days...my 3m seal just shipped should get it by tom.

i have a question my led's are on a direct connection to the standard h8 bulb wiring, you think with audrino/drivers i can turn up the brightness?

3M seal? To seal the housings back up? You could have gone to home depot and gotten a tube of rtv silicone, GE household, liquid nails clear projects, or something similar. All the same more or less.

You really just need one with good vibration and shrinkage resistance. Temp resistance is a plugs too.

Scott_180 · 08-09-2011, 11:49 AM

Classsy

NightStalker · 08-09-2011, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by *********

3M seal? To seal the housings back up? You could have gone to home depot and gotten a tube of rtv silicone, GE household, liquid nails clear projects, or something similar. All the same more or less.

You really just need one with good vibration and shrinkage resistance. Temp resistance is a plugs too.

well i did take a look at those but the stuff you mentioned puts out fumes and there not butyl besides idk if they have the same characteristics of how it expands in form.

last thing i want is condensation/leaks of water running inside my headlights due to not sealing up well.

NightStalker · 08-09-2011, 12:20 PM

ups just dropped by, 3m butyl is pretty soft so shouldn't be a mess

Litos · 08-09-2011, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by *********

Yea the inner ones. I need to re open the headlight and add 2 more drivers :/ Keep in mind they are also at minimum brightness.

you definitely know what you're doing.

wish there was someone in Houston with those skills.....

fdriller9 · 08-10-2011, 02:30 PM

Bump...video update in OP.

monkawekrue · 08-10-2011, 02:48 PM

those are some badass AE's. giving OSS a run for their money? jk

didyoufeelit · 08-10-2011, 10:49 PM

these are super sick.. please post a DIY!!

Biturbo3 · 08-11-2011, 01:31 AM

thats dope!

fdriller9 · 08-11-2011, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by didyoufeelit

these are super sick.. please post a DIY!!

In the works! I just want to get a few kinks out of the way before I post one.

I'm having a problem right now where my +5VDC regulator (7805) is dropping below 5V when the engine is on. This makes the arduino boot continuous.....This is intermittent though. But when the board is off/rebooting, the angel eyes go full brightness and they blind drivers at night.

I'm going to try putting a regulated 12v signal into the RAW pin so the logic boards internal regulator can step it down to 5V. Well see how that goes. My only concern is that the regulator may get hot.

Ideally I would like a 7.5V source to connect to the RAW pin but then I have to build another circuit for an adjustable regular (because they don't make premade 7.5V regulators).

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