So wow, it's been quite a while since I've posted anything. I guess that's what a kid and a new house do to you. Anyway, I have a new project to share. For Christmas, we got our son a little motorized quad. Of course we got the cheap one because times are tough, but this meant sacrificing features of the more expensive models. That's fine for most things, but the killer feature was the reverse function because I'm sure my son would drive into a wall, and then yell until I came and saved him. As much fun as that sounds, I decided to do something about it.
So I added a reverse switch to his quad. It was a fairly simple matter, just a DPDT switch and some wire. The before and after schematic is below, showing how I wired in the new switch. The end product almost looks like it came that way, and now my son will be able to get himself out of trouble. I guess it's true that the best inventions arise out of laziness :)
