Physical Progress Bar

this is my arduino powered physical progress bar prototype. This is connected to a computer via an arduino. It can be a countdown clock for your workday, it can mirror your desktop pc's progress bars, it can receive a signal from your computer indicating lag, server load, processor speed, or amount of unread emails! Lastly it can take sensor input (it is an arduino after all!) and display that. I could see that being useful to quickly show co2 levels in a greenhouse, temperature, or volume of ambient noise.

 

It has an arduino, a servo, and some custom laser cut acrylic gears under the hood to move the bar. It will be laser cut out of 3mm acrylic and utilize t-bolt joints to keep everything together.

 

It's built around an arduino: what do you want to hack it to do?

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