Today, I went out, started at it some, fantasized about driving it, then ripped it apart some more

Then I started the reassembly process of my two month journey. It probably would have been a lot faster if I devoted more time to it but life happens. I ended up taking off two days giving me a 4 day weekend so I can hopefully finish my cluster project once and for all. Im fairly confident I have everything wired that I will need besides hooking the side indicator lights back up on the gauge cluster (which will hopefully be tomorrow). After that, I will be starting the re installation process of my dash and center console. Everything is communicating for the most part and to the point to where I can use it to drive and do the rest of the programming/setup in my free time.

Below is a quick bench (floor) test preview of how it operates. Still more work to do but I am finally making some good progress! The components I am shorting to turn the indicators on are optocouplers. They isolate the 12V circuits from the 5V logic. As you can see in the video, I added capacitive sensors behind the bezel for the headlights. I wanted to have some buttons to hold me over until I put my new steering wheel in but I didn't want to make anything permanent that would cause damage (drilling holes for buttons). They will control things such as the view of the cluster and the trip reset buttons. As you can see, the screen is pretty bright (to the point to where it is washing out the camera). I have added a brightness control that will dim the display at night so it wont hurt my eyes. Im still debating if I want it to sense off the headlights or an ambient light sensor I have installed. Im leaning towards the ambient light sensor because I sometimes drive with my headlights on during the day and I could see that causing issues in direct sunlight and the screen dimming