Vehicle Driver Display

### DESCRIPTION ( Introduce yourserlf and your project)

Hi! My name is Ron Haber, I'm the Electrical Manager of McMaster Solar Car. We are an electrical vehicle racing team located out of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Every year we design a new electric vehicle that has attached solar panels and uses batteries as an energy source. The race, The American Solar Challenge, happens yearly with 30 different teams from around the world participating. The race has two parts, a race around an F1 track and a race across the USA, on actual highways, ranging approximately 3000km. With our association with McMaster University, we are considered to be both a student group and a not-for-profit organization and accordingly can supply donation receipts and valuable contacts at the university.

### TECHNICAL DETAILS (With project photos)

The driver display board is used as the main human-machine interface (HMI) between the driver and the rest of the vehicle. The board utilizes a PIC18F46K80 microcontroller and is hardware interrupt based in that as buttons are pressed they activate specific items in the car such as lights, the horn, cruise control, startup, etc. It communicates with the rest of the vehicle via CANbus and relays its information accordingly. In order to properly display information to the driver it has an embedded LCD that is 16x4 pixels in size. The board itself needs to be custom made to fit its 3-D printed enclosure and as such will be approximately 165mm x 110mm. Below is a 3D rendering of the board.

### Words to PCBWay

I have already ordered a few boards from PCBWay in the past and they have worked phenomally! I would really like to keep using your boards and having your logo on our car would bring a lot of interest in your company. We offer different sponsorship options and donation receipts. Please contact me at (416) 700-9014 or email me at haberrj@mcmaster.ca.