Un-dummying / Stealth buttons on shifter panel for MT vehicles.

[soundman98]

^that's^ what i did. but i haven't made use of the buttons. yet.

[Enigmeerkat]

I just stuck one of these on and pretend to hit it whenever my partner annoys me :P

[dxcufgb]

Here's my progress so far!

I went with a slightly different approach where the positive wires will connect to a micro controller, which is connected to the vehicle ground. Therefore I only need two wires, one for each button. I checked the pins in the car and discovered that there are two ground pins, one for the LEDs on the board and one for the buttons as per the following image:



After this I then desoldered the board to check available space underneath the PCB:



Proceeded with the milling/drilling with a dremel to make room for my new wires (not the cleanest work, but it wont be visible):



then I soldered the wires onto the PCB:





I then routed the wires through the small square hole and resoldered the PCB onto the pins of the plastic casing:

[IMG]https://i.ibb.co/***8fvD/wiring.jpg[/IMG]



The next step is remaking the previously mentioned 3D-printed part that pushes on the small iron rods!

This will all connect to a camera switching module with an Arduino that switches between the rearview camera and a nose camera!