FAURECIA Pebble Beach interior study

Year created: 2016, Programming collaboration, Client: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH

For the visionary “Pebble Beach” interior study, we created the code for controlling the “Geode” loudspeaker (lighting effects and audio) and for the feedback (lighting effects and grayscale OLED displays) of the air vents in the instrument panel.

The light color in the Geode is controlled by a tablet app, which also transmits the audio files to the built-in loudspeaker via Bluetooth.

In the instrument panel, holographic foils and RGB LEDs are used to generate animations in the air vents that show the direction, strength and temperature of the air flow.

Left: the Geode loudspeaker, right: the instrument panel

Pebble Geode and IP at the Paris Mondial Show Pictures © Faurecia/YouTube

Software functions in the demonstrator

RGB light animations in the air vents..
Display of the temperature on the OLEDs.
Processing of operating actions relating to temperature and AirVent alignment.
RGB light color control of the geode.
Bluetooth audio transmission from the tablet app to the Geode.

Labeling of the electronic components in the IP controlled by us

Labeling of the electronic components in the Geode controlled by us

User interface of the “Geode” tablet app

Screenshot of the Geode Android remote control app

User interface of the IP remote control tablet app

Hardware used

1x Samsung Android tablet
1x Adafruit Feather WiFi
1x Arduino Mega
2x 1.8" OLED 160x32, 16 grey levels
880x Neopixel WS2812 LEDs