this is the solder side of it<\/a> right after I finished cleaning it up. The etching isn’t perfect, but it meters out solidly. So, hopefully it’ll work.<\/p>\nThe components installed there are the 1M\u03a9 resistor to make the iPod pause when the power stops and a salvaged choke (I hope I’m calling that the right thing) to hopefully eliminate any extra noise in the +12v coming from the car.<\/p>\n
So, that’s about that… I’m likely going to the auto show tomorrow, so maybe I’ll get back to things on Thursday. We’ll see how that goes. :)<\/p>\n
Oh, and all the photos from today can be found starting here and on in (photo gallery retired)<\/em>. Yes, there are lots of the PCB. It was the first I made, so I wanted to document it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Click for more… Okay, I did decide to post a shot of the PCB tonight. That’s it, in the project box I chose for making this. It seems like it’ll work out pretty good, even though I likely could have gone with a smaller box. Ah well… That there is the PCB I made, and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13657,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions\/13657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0788-scaled.jpg\")
<\/a>![this is the solder side of it<\/a> right after I finished cleaning it up. The etching isn’t perfect, but it meters out solidly. So, hopefully it’ll work.<\/p>\nThe components installed there are the 1M\u03a9 resistor to make the iPod pause when the power stops and a salvaged choke (I hope I’m calling that the right thing) to hopefully eliminate any extra noise in the +12v coming from the car.<\/p>\nSo, that’s about that… I’m likely going to the auto show tomorrow, so maybe I’ll get back to things on Thursday. We’ll see how that goes. :)<\/p>\nOh, and all the photos from today can be found starting here and on in (photo gallery retired)<\/em>. Yes, there are lots of the PCB. It was the first I made, so I wanted to document it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Click for more… Okay, I did decide to post a shot of the PCB tonight. That’s it, in the project box I chose for making this. It seems like it’ll work out pretty good, even though I likely could have gone with a smaller box. Ah well… That there is the PCB I made, and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13657,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions\/13657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0764-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}