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Shoreditch wall.
Mounted ZX Spectrum tape covers.
Mounted front panel from a dead, vintage audio amp. Holes are backlit with LEDs and the dials cycle up and down. You can control the speed and lighting by touching the wood on top of the frame - a capacitance based qprox sensor detects the proximity of your hand to act as a switch.
The switch is multimodal; a quick touch cycles the lighting modes to on/dim/off, holding your hand there for 3 seconds enables the speed setting mode - the dial increments one level on the panel meter per 2 seconds held, ie, hold your hand there for 10 seconds and the dials take about 30 mins to cycle, hold it there for 1 second and the dial will cycle at once every 2 seconds.
All control is done with a PIC microcontroller (before I swapped to AVR). This was my first electronics project.
Shoreditch wall.
Mounted ZX Spectrum tape covers.
Mounted front panel from a dead, vintage audio amp. Holes are backlit with LEDs and the dials cycle up and down. You can control the speed and lighting by touching the wood on top of the frame - a capacitance based qprox sensor detects the proximity of your hand to act as a switch.
The switch is multimodal; a quick touch cycles the lighting modes to on/dim/off, holding your hand there for 3 seconds enables the speed setting mode - the dial increments one level on the panel meter per 2 seconds held, ie, hold your hand there for 10 seconds and the dials take about 30 mins to cycle, hold it there for 1 second and the dial will cycle at once every 2 seconds.
All control is done with a PIC microcontroller (before I swapped to AVR). This was my first electronics project.