4th Dimension Tracker
Hardware- 4 Devlogs
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An alarm clock which wont stop beeping until you win a few minigames. It's quite frustrating so you can count on it to surely wake you up and not snooze.
An alarm clock which wont stop beeping until you win a few minigames. It's quite frustrating so you can count on it to surely wake you up and not snooze.
I have made a basic firmware that connects to the wifi and fetches current time and displays it. This is no where close to our finished firmware but I will be able to continue development once I actually get the hardware. AI helped me quite a lot with this one
I just made a nice Readme on github, you can check it out. I clicked some pictures for readme formatted it and also made some small improvements to the case. The blocks/pillars in the corners for heatsets were given a bit more support and made longer. The display’s pins were also intersecting with the case so I made a cut-out for them.
Today I worked on the CAD model/case design. I preferred using Autodesk Fusion for making this since I had prior experience with it.
Lets begin with the case design, It has small hexagonal designs on the front and a text “4D!” which will be printed in a different colour and stuck in. It looks cool to me but if you have any suggestions how I can make it cooler, drop em down. on the sides it has triangular holes for sound to come out and a hole for usb in the back.
on the top there are 6 switches, Five normal switches and one big switch which will also be 3D printed. It is slightly smaller than the spacebar on our keyboard. The case has a lid and a bottom part, they will be screwed and the screw holes align with PCB’s screw holes so all 3 can be put together with just 4 screws. I have added blocks on the corners inside the case where I will be putting the heatset inserts.
PS - It kinda looks like microwave?
Began working on “4th Dimension Tracker” (Cool, isnt it?). First i just sketched out a design. My clock will have Alarm, Timer and Stopwatch functionality. When alarm rings, there would be minigames which you would have to play and only after winning the clock would stop beeping. The games will be played by 6 switches, one of the switch will be very big, like spacebar, it will be 3d printed apart from the case. These 6 switches will also be used to navigate around the menu and set alarms, timers and so on. The homescreen will be customizable with gifs, motivational quotes and clock styles configured through a simple webserver that I could probably run on the seeed microcontroller(would have to figure that out). After that I proceeded by making the PCB which is also finished. It has layout for 6 switches, buzzer, seeduino and the display. It is less than 100mm x 100mm so it should be approved. Next I will be working on the CAD case and the big keycap.