"I'm the voice of Knight Industries 2000's microprocessor..." It's the first time shown with this bar graph voice box! It looks cooler than the flashing square
The adult in me thinks, "It's just talking a car." But the kid in me thinks, "It's THE talking car." Thank you for sharing this bit of TV history with us.
I love KITT in Holland it’s no easy to get a Pontiac Firebird I found 1 for 3000 euros most are going for at least 8 to 17,000 euros it Needed some work exhaust was crap and 1 of the headers was missing most bolts I have a Pontiac Firebird U9 1990 V6 3,1L injection same model only some parts are different the hood bumper and spoiler and of course the modifications I love de car and it’s going nowhere I know the KITT version was a trans am but that is expensive in Holland I don’t care more like 20,000 euro I am one of the 91 owners in Holland and I am proud of it
Agreed and with half of the US against big tech with few viable options, I think the time has come for a Knight Industries Operation System or KIOS for short.
electronics dont degrade like fruit. but its nice that it hasn't been completely scrapped for parts or lost in a landfill. just thank every soul who saved it from such fate.
Scott Rise is awesome. He builds modular synthesizers (so do I) and at Moogfest 2017 he had a module in his system running that was the voicebox. Really glad to see a direct connection between that and the original prop, but in reverse!
Accidentally stumbled onto this video, and I can see why it was suggested to me. After binge watching a bunch of computer and pinball repair videos, it makes sense this would pop up. But I'm even more astonished to see KITTs original voice module! Holy crap! My dad managed to sit in the original KITT car as it was being toured around the country, and I sat on his lap in the drivers seat as a baby. Nostalgia hits real hard here. Thanks so much for the video!
Thank you! Please check out our other videos on the reconstruction of this original dashboard! Much more to come. Do you have any photos of your dad sitting in the car on tour? We would love to see them! knightriderhistorians@gmail.com
I think wo should all say thanks to Scott who made the circuit board for making the world's well known car come alive again cheers scot And great video guys
I wonder why he went the hard way instead of just making a 3 channel vu meter and a usb to phone connector running a basic equalizer and voice recognition software ... would have been a lot smaller and other than the actual led display it would be plug and play literally or hack siri up and use that for the voice recognition and prerecorded kitt options
@0623kaboom It's because that's often signiificantly more difficult in terms of both hardware and getting firmware functionality sorted out. USB means there will have to be a host (master) device and are the issues that come with the USB protocol, packet failures, device handshaking, and so on. Any time you add more variables the probability of failure & complications, complexity, and cost go up nearly exponentially. In the end, often the simplest solution is the best one. SIRI is proprietary and as far as I'm aware not open-source, meaning that's not a viable option.
This made me cry 😭 The fact that you’re seeing the original season 3/4 KITT’s voice box talking!! It’s amazing 🤩 The nostalgia is 💯 I’m looking forward to see it installed in the screen used KITT
@@Petroschka1979 actually only 5 screen used KITT cars survived. The man that’s showing KITT’s original voicebox has one of the screen used KITT cars. 😎
How about this dunno if it's true but found the link. David is selling his personal KITT car but to rich for me. www.liveauctioneers.com/item/95041485_davids-personal-kitt-knight-rider-car
Pretty cool that the 1st thing you had it say after all these years was the 1st thing we ever heard KITT say back in the show "I am the voice of the ..."
This is amazing. I have a picture of me sitting in KITT in the 80s as a kid. And I met David Hasselhoff also. I was shocked when KITT spoke to me when I sat inside the car. It was at the Civic Center in Philadelphia where I use to live as a kid.
@@confuseatronica I don't mind either as well but I think I remember reading somewhere that they changed it to the bars because people liked the look of KARR's voice modulator from episode 9
I know about this movie and tv series from german language channel RTL Plus or simply RTL +. This channel made one of the longest action tv series from 1996, are Alarm für Cobra 11 or Alarm for Cobra 11. In one of episodes was real replica of KITT(kitt.de) filmed,but are destroyed normal car with cheap scanner and KNIGHT plate. This site about cars in tv and movies www.imcdb.org for help.
@@andrismajors8171 This show is know to have wrecked a few 3rd gen Firebirds. Non KITT replicas mind you. One of them a Formula model. Formula hood goes for about 1200+ € over here. The normal one for about 70€
God I love KITT! You guys are honestly living my childhood dream to own and interact with the actors and stuntmen who made this show the hit that it will always be. One day I honestly hope to drive a KITT replica one day!
Oh my god, just look at the attention to detail on that circuit board. Besides the name and date of its creator, the words 'KITT Voice Box Controller' are printed at one end - and it's written in Knight Font. ! This deserves to be visible somehow on the restored dash.
Ah yes, the ubiquitous LM3914 (linear) and LM3915 (logarithmic) chips and those Radio Shack 10 segment LEDs. I built a similar circuit before that show was around. People were using them for VU meters for their home and/or car stereos.
basically it was just a led vu meter that worked off of a remote mic or hidden tape nothing really hard to do honestly ... heck he could have made a basic 3 channel led vu meter and added a usb to phone jack and a usb to car jack to power it all ... then have an app that has a basic equalizer to adjust the fade and strength of the bars with voice recognition and have it answer your questions as you drive or some such .. he went a little harder to get the same result tbh
What is the paper affixed to the LED bars, and how is it attached? Was it applied to diffuse the light from the individual LEDs? Ingenious. It really feels like you have restored KITT to life!
Looks to be the default plastic some LED or display components have from the factory to protect their finish. It's a very thin layer of plastic that you pull off. I've had to remove it before from parts like that.
I honestly liked the square voice box. Don't know why, but it seemed like to me, it keeps the show more connected to its original darker style, both in filming and concepts.
Shame you couldn't have had the cruise light on too while K.I.T.T was talking then it would have been like old times but it was brilliant to see his voice box working again
I would be happier if the real voicebox behaviour had been matched. It looks like the outer bargraph's motion is quite similar to the one in the middle, but the in the real thing they acted differently. The outer bargraphs also were slightly darker, but I never saw such an original replica circuit. 😜
I have been waiting 20 years for someone to make GPS in the voice of KITT and no ones done it yet... a million dollar idea just sitting there. someone needs to do it.
Some excellent electronics here, old coupled up with new. I loved this show as a kid in the 80s. I have seen a few kit replicas at car shows, I am not up on American cars but I think it was a Pontiac transam with auto transmission, I am not sure if the original car is still in existence but this piece of history would suit it again, as nearly a middle aged bloke it's a lovely reminder of my childhood, as for the electronics buff who designed an built the new circuit respect to you sir, fantastic work, it sounds exactly how I remember it. I remember Karr, evil Kitt, his voice box flashed green. Sadly the British actor who played Devon passed away with cancer. The Hoff is a bit older now but still performing in show business. I did not care much for the new night rider, you can't beat the old classics, they will never die, lovely to hear Kitts voice again.
Thinking about the kind of electronics work that went into the hero dash... it was about as sophisticated as any car out there. I'd like to think that Buick's Graphic Control and Oldsmobile's Visual Information Center CRT-based proto-infotainment systems, and the 1984 Corvette's bar-graph dashboard were heavily influenced by KITT, as much as KITT's dash design was influenced by the 1976 Aston Martin Lagonda Series 2 and the 1978 Cadillac Seville.
Hey! That's great! Good job guys! Amazing all the LEDs still work! Very fun to see the hero dash voice box alive again. Please don't put it in a blue '57 Chevy!
This is awesome, I am so hyped. I am a huge fan of the show and am glad I found your website and channel. I myself had an exterior only replica but sold it in 2010 unfortunately. I did buy anotber 82 trans am that I plan to convert hopefully this time in and out. Great work bringing the REAL Kitt back to life. 👍👍👍👍
Kudos to Scott on this one. Great how you can customize it too. Hope he got a free jacket for that lol. Don't know how I missed this video before. Thanks Joe
