We Built a Custom PCB With PCBWay To Make Our Tonneau Cover Smarter https://peertube.tv/videos/watch/3e74e361-ef73-49ee-9ea0-02cee7c1b260 Today's Video is sponsored by PCBWay. Visit https://pcbway.com/g/Z9hxkG to get $5 off your first order, and turn your ideas into reality, be they custom PCBs, metal components, or 3D prints! Just under two months ago, we installed the WOLFBOX Smart Slide powered tonneau cover on our crew F-150 Lightning. Since, it's shown itself to be reliable, weatherproof, and silent. But there's one feature we miss from our previous tonneau cover we wish it had: the ability to control its operation from inside the truck. But after realizing how the cover's BLE stack works, we've been busy designing our own PCB that combines CAN Bus, BLE, and HomeLink to give us the feature we miss — and a whole bunch of extra features we think will enhance our ownership experience. Meet "Mellon" — a project we're working on that should do it all. ⏱️ Chapter Breakdown: 00:00 Introduction 02:12 Nikki's got a history of 'tinkering' 02:42 Reverse engineering the protocol 04:58 A proof of concept demonstration 06:53 Success criteria 09:42 Designing a circuit 11:01 It's real! 11:16 Video sponsor: PCBWay 13:30 Talking through the main components 17:24 Board test code 18:21 Testing the 12V power stage 20:07 Things still to be finished 21:42 About the name... 22:44 Built on open source 23:51 Would you want one? 26:14 Thanks and goodbye! Music: Jozeque - Augmaster: https://soundcloud.com/jozeque/augmaster Tilman Sillescu - Misty Mountain: https://soundcloud.com/tilmansillescu/misty-mountain 👥 Channel Sponsors 🌱 Electric Vehicle Association - https://www.myeva.org ⚡ EnergySage - https://www.kqzyfj.com/click-101290941-16952262 — ✊ Get Involved 🗳️ https://indivisible.org/town-hall-resources ❤️ Support the Show 📰 https://www.transportevolved.com 🔥 https://www.patreon.com/transportevolved ☕ https://ko-fi.com/transportevolved 📺 https://www.youtube.com/transportevolved 👕 https://www.redbubble.com/people/TransportEVd/ 🛍️ https://amzn.to/40xOyjm ₿ 1QRZRGCCXUKPDZ2DZ9KX9JYJXMZDYHYGFZ0MN4WH 💬 Join the Conversation 🐘 https://mastodon.transportevolved.com/@show 💬 https://discord.gg/9WAjfQn 💬 https://fluxer.gg/mcj8aehg 🌀 https://bsky.app/profile/transportevolved.bsky.social 🔁 Subscribe to our 2nd channel - https://www.youtube.com/transportevolvedtake2 🎙️ Credits: Host, Script, Editor: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield Color: Vi Horton Art & Animation : Erin Carlie Producer: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield Music: via Artlist.io Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:15:32 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.tv We Built a Custom PCB With PCBWay To Make Our Tonneau Cover Smarter https://peertube.tv/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://peertube.tv/videos/watch/3e74e361-ef73-49ee-9ea0-02cee7c1b260 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.tv/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.