Project "Acrylonia"
- Project "Acrylonia"
- Part 1 - Hardware
- Part 2 - Tools
- Part 3 - Materials
- Part 4 - The Box
- Part 5 - Small electronic boxes
- Part 6 - Light and LCD switches
- Part 7 - Lower control panel
- Part 8 - Fan controller - knobs
- Part 9 - Fan controller
- Part 10 - Fan controller - attachment
- Part 11 - HDD activity meter
- Part 12 - Attaching the LCD to the front panel
- Part 13 - LCD front panel
- Part 14 - Front panel
- Part 15 - Hard drive mounting
- Part 16 - PSU
- Part 17 - Grills and right panel
- Part 18 - Putting it all together and some extra elements
- Part 19 - Eyecandy
- Part 20 - Mega Lan Party - Plovdiv
Part 11 - HDD activity meter
Part 11 - HDD activity meter
I made this meter by the following guide: http://www.gideontech.com/content/articles/205/3
It displays the HDD activity way better than a mere LED.
The initial idea for LED attachment was this:
Later on it proved to be bad solution. I soldered the LEDs on a project circuit board.
The controller itself:
And some tests:
I didn�t had enough LEDs at the time�