Nothing better than mixing science fiction cinema from the 90s, technology Arduino and a small quick recording to obtain a viral combination with which to flood the networks. That is the result that Brandon, a fan of the jurassic park saga who has been working for years on a replica of the Ford Explorer that circulated through the first Jurassic Park.
A spectacular replica
Although Brandom's work (Cyrix9445 in the networks) became famous a few years ago through some publications, it has recently been on everyone's lips again thanks to some publications on TikTok. Through his TikTok account, he has shared a look inside his Ford Explorer, a vehicle that he has customized in recent years to represent as much as possible the recreation that gave life to the autonomous transport vehicles of the first Jurassic Park.
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As some of you will surely remember, the vehicles in the park had an assisted driving system that allowed visitors to enjoy the park without having to have their hands on the wheel. This system supposedly worked with a pair of cameras mounted on the dash, and that's just what Brandon has placed to mimic the styling of the vehicle.
In any case, this incorporation is still something aesthetic and without a real function, but what is interesting comes on the screen, since this skilled creator has managed to design a touch interface identical to the one that could be seen in the film.
Welcome to Jurassic Park
The result, as you can see, is spectacular. Equipped with an arduino board (in the beginning he used a Mac mini) and after installing Panasonic 9-inch and 7-inch monitors and players, Cyrix9445 has managed to bring to life an interactive system in the vehicle that allows you to review the different points of interest on Isla Nublar.
The most spectacular thing about his work is that at all times he has tried to achieve the maximum possible representation of the vehicle, since, although the easiest thing to do would have been to install a current touch screen, instead he preferred to use the original Panasonic BT-S901 that they used in the movie and work on a tactile recognition system to make it work seamlessly.
Details that count
The level of detail of the vehicle reaches such an extent that in the process of modifying the chassis it has incorporated the curved glass roof that the T-Rex ends up destroying, the extra lighting headlights, external cameras to review the exterior from the cabin and even a central locking system controlled from the screen.
To complete his work, Cyrix9445 did not forget to include one of the most iconic moments of the film, and that is that in one of the code access menus, if the user enters the wrong code, he will receive the animation of the charismatic Dennis Nedry, the programmer who tried to steal the dinosaur DNA samples to sell on the black market.