So I have had this funny little idea with all of the potential regulations wizzing around... I'll make my intro to the idea more practical though 
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I noticed a lot of the time I am vaping is in the car (~2 hours a day), and rather then drain my battery or use passthrough on my mod, why not have a designated pass through vape for my car? Rather then spending the 20$ and buying one of those cheapy VV pass throughs I want to do something a little different.
For a pass-through, battery life indicator, puff timer, and other features, don't matter at all. If the device has temperature control, then variable voltage/wattage doesn't really matter either so long as it's sufficient to fire dual coils without lag (~18.5watts /w Ni200). Don't have to worry about battery charging circuits, indicator lights, or OLED's. Basically as simple as possible (one clicky button, and a nice 510 in a small tube) without really sacrificing any functionality. If it used USB it could run off of a car battery or an adequate cellphone charger, which satisfies 80% of my vaping circumstances.
I think this would be the first logical step towards an open source low-cost mod. Why open-source? The government has historically failed at regulating things people can get off the shelf, download freely from the internet, and put together in 20 minutes. There's very little danger in it as well, no possible battery failure (no more news stories about batteries sploding in car seats), etc. I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in designing something like this with me? I'm not an EET, but I think it would be a cool idea, and am not unseasoned with electronics or programming.
How hard would it really be to tune PID control for resistance/temperature sensing? Something tells me it would take 2 hours to figure out and once it was coded and shared no one would have to bother to figure it out again. Why pay 60$ for a DNA40, or yihi temp control board when arduino's and arduino knock off's exist for 10$ and the neccesary IC's for a fixed power supply would probably be 5$? If it takes off, who knows, we could even come up with an open source more "complete" mod (variable voltage/wattage, battery, screen, etc...). I just think this would be a great starting point.
Basically two of the reccomendations I suggested to evolv after my DNA40 failed (my own error! not theirs) were included in the newest DNA40 big screen. This isn't hard to do, but I'm consistantly short on time and cash, so I wanted to include the community here and see if other people are into the idea. I'm also pretty good at throwing things together and have a few electronics projects under my belt so I can help out or drive it when I have the time (rare). Sure there's a few hurdles but nothing major I can foresee. Low resistance would be one, but if the 510 is decent enough do we really need a screen to tell us that there is no atomizer attached?
.I noticed a lot of the time I am vaping is in the car (~2 hours a day), and rather then drain my battery or use passthrough on my mod, why not have a designated pass through vape for my car? Rather then spending the 20$ and buying one of those cheapy VV pass throughs I want to do something a little different.
For a pass-through, battery life indicator, puff timer, and other features, don't matter at all. If the device has temperature control, then variable voltage/wattage doesn't really matter either so long as it's sufficient to fire dual coils without lag (~18.5watts /w Ni200). Don't have to worry about battery charging circuits, indicator lights, or OLED's. Basically as simple as possible (one clicky button, and a nice 510 in a small tube) without really sacrificing any functionality. If it used USB it could run off of a car battery or an adequate cellphone charger, which satisfies 80% of my vaping circumstances.
I think this would be the first logical step towards an open source low-cost mod. Why open-source? The government has historically failed at regulating things people can get off the shelf, download freely from the internet, and put together in 20 minutes
. There's very little danger in it as well, no possible battery failure (no more news stories about batteries sploding in car seats), etc. I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in designing something like this with me? I'm not an EET, but I think it would be a cool idea, and am not unseasoned with electronics or programming.How hard would it really be to tune PID control for resistance/temperature sensing? Something tells me it would take 2 hours to figure out and once it was coded and shared no one would have to bother to figure it out again. Why pay 60$ for a DNA40, or yihi temp control board when arduino's and arduino knock off's exist for 10$ and the neccesary IC's for a fixed power supply would probably be 5$? If it takes off, who knows, we could even come up with an open source more "complete" mod (variable voltage/wattage, battery, screen, etc...). I just think this would be a great starting point.
Basically two of the reccomendations I suggested to evolv after my DNA40 failed (my own error! not theirs) were included in the newest DNA40 big screen. This isn't hard to do, but I'm consistantly short on time and cash, so I wanted to include the community here and see if other people are into the idea
. I'm also pretty good at throwing things together and have a few electronics projects under my belt so I can help out or drive it when I have the time (rare). Sure there's a few hurdles but nothing major I can foresee. Low resistance would be one, but if the 510 is decent enough do we really need a screen to tell us that there is no atomizer attached?
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