Sunday, July 28, 2019

pop socket repair

The cap to my pop socket phone holder broke. It was held on by 4 tabs that fit into small slots in the plastic.
I made a replacement cap out of three different pieces of wood. I glued it with wood glue and clamped it. Then I cut it with an adjustable hole saw. But forgot to account for shrinkage when sanding, so it's a bit small. sanded, clear coated, attached with tiny nails with heads large enough to stay in the slots. I also glued in a piece of dowel to fill the hole.


Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Tea Machine- Splash Shield

To protect the arduino and other electronics from being splashed, I added a cover made of clear plastic, this also helps support the switch box. It might look better with a slightly frosted plastic to hide the wiring, but for now I just used the clear plastic I already had from a large pretzel container.

Friday, July 12, 2019

Tea Machine- Indicator Light

The next addition to the tea machine is an indicator light that sits just under the coffee maker base. It has three 5mm LEDs, one for each time setting. The green is lit up from 3 and a half to 5 minutes, the yellow indicates 5-10 minutes, and the red is 10 plus minutes. The yellow has a white lens. I added 1000 ohm resistor, shared by all three LEDs.
The timing of the lights is controlled by the arduino. I added the code for the timing of each light. The pins needed to be configured as OUTPUT in order to send the correct current to the LEDs.