Saturday, February 6, 2010

Progress on fans - new radio transmitter

It's taking about five hours per color to add the lights to the fans.  I spent the morning working on radio transmitter issues, so I only got half of the clear lights added to the first fan this afternoon.
I have also installed a new FM Transmitter.  This unit supports RDS which will enable me to send the current song playing, etc. to be displayed on the radio in most vehicles.  Since the transmitter is located in the garage and the show computer is in the office, I had to find a way to extend a serial connection from the computer to the rds encoder in the transmitter.  I used a serial over ip adapter to do so.  This converts the RS232 signal to tcp/ip packets which are then decoded by the adapter and sent to the serial port on the transmitter.

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