RoboGlyphs Project

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Monday, June 7th, 2010

I was looking through some of the things I had lying around the other day, and I found my old RoboGlyphs!

Check out my old posts about them… beep boop

It feels like I never quite did a good job with them. They’re really pretty pieces of plastic, they deserve better! Another thing that I have been noticing lately is that there are many primarily electronic add-ons for Arduinos. What about just plain old accessories with a main function of looking artsy? I’m thinking that the RoboGlyphs (when I redo them) will be able to be one of the first “more art than electronic add-on” for an Arduino.

The plan is to have an RGB LED illuminate the RoboGlyph from below. There will be a female header on the perf board so it can be interfaced with an Arduino, or just a circuit of some sort. There will be black sparkly “felt” (it’s not really felt, but I have no idea what it is called) covering the front of the LED part, so it looks as magical as possible. The RoboGlyph will be backed by this felt also. I’m thinking of using toothpicks or something rudimentary simple to hold the glyph in place. I’ll probably use rubber feet on the bottom of the perf board to keep it sturdy.

This is the black sparkly “felt” that I’m talking about:

The first thing that I’m going to do to start this project off are the perf boards. They are all measured for the RoboGlyph.

I wanted to make sure that they were smooth, so I spent time sanding them down…

The end result is very smooth! It will be very unlikely to get a perf board cut from these

This is where I intend for the RGB LED to sit:

That’s it for now! Later on I’m going to paint the top of the perf board black (to match the black sparkly “felt”) and afterwards solder in the LED and header. =)

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