r/KnightRider

He had a Pontiac party.

Giving an NES a spin to see if it's functional after cleaning.

Demo video: https://youtu.be/P31M9Eg0iRc

While stripping an old car with a friend 10 years ago, I took an old aftermarket brake light off his hands because I could see the potential. It doesn't have the correct number of segments or the angle of a proper scanner replica, but I wanted to give it a go anyway for fun.

Fast forward a long time and I finally got around to it in 2024. My original plan was to swap the filament bulbs for LEDs, but my tests showed that just wasn't going to look right. Instead I kept the bulbs and fed each with an individual positive power wire, then re-used the original combined ground to connect them to a set of MOSFETs and an Arduino.

It's all packed up in a project box and runs on 12V, not shown in these pictures is the 12V to 9V DC converter that's used to power the setup because it hides everything else. The MOSFETs stay quite cool in operation as they're only on for a short time.

The code for the Arduino started quite basic - getting it to scan was easy - but it was immediately obvious that the scanning didn't look right as the bulbs went out too quickly. Setting up the code to fade out each bulb slowly and create the 'tail' of light we're familiar with was tricky. I'm happy with the result now.

I made a video of it in action back then, before running it on my black Discovery during a Land Rover parade in 2024.

Yes I love Kitt, but KARR was my favorite, always wanted a real life one, so I built this one,he is a Tamiya TT02 race chassis, brushless Traxxas tqi radio I am waiting for his metal wheels and I need to make an extra set of front lights for the assembly. Herbie is his therapist,

ORIGINAL ART https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS4WDspqd/

These are likely 2027 sets but due to the nature of the file might also be 2028 sets. The info from earlier today floating around also came from this file.

Every now and then, someone offers a reason why a reboot of KR isn't possible today (all excellent reasons!): it's a product of its time, there's no actor like David Hasselhoff anymore, etc.

But the biggest problem is that it would be incredibly EXPENSIVE. Do you remember how many stunts there were in each episode and how many cars were destroyed? Or in other contemporary shows like Dukes of Hazzard or Chips?

When's the last time you saw dozens of cars piled up in a huge crash on a TV show?

Even the 2008 reboot had very few stunts and an embarrassing use of CGI.

Nowadays, only films like Fast and Furious can afford to film scenes of mass car destruction, which in the '70s and '80s were just a Monday for any TV show.

I spied this too-cool-for-school replica yesterday afternoon on the road in Santa Clarita, California. It's funny, my brain instantly added the scanner sound effect and theme music. Maybe I watched too much TV when I was a kid, but this made me smile.

Product Link - https://youtu.be/2FdXeCArsG8

I asked ChatGPT to recolor the Knight 4000 to see what it might have looked like with a more classic KITT-inspired color scheme. I've always wondered what it would have looked like in black with black wheels and white rims.

I actually love the original red look. Red is my favorite color, but I think this would have worked really well too.