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01-15-2013, 02:04 PM
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Well, I got a wack load of stuff yesterday
   My main Arduino board, 3 temp sensors, a couple different adjustable resistors, screw terminals (the wrong ones, as it turns out), larger wiring terminals I'm going to use these to link my 3 fixtures, and some transistors. Pretty soon I'm not gonna have much excuse not to start building this  
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01-15-2013, 04:16 PM
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I need to make some progress on mine too...
I had my heatsink cut to size yesterday, now I have to figure out how I want to do my pendant enclosure. Still waiting on a bunch of small stuff get here so I can do the circuits for temp, and PWM fan.
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01-24-2013, 10:40 PM
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Well... to keep costs down, I'm going to try to make a pendant out of left over acrylic I have from when I built my tank years ago. Here's the faceplate I came up with to hold the remote TFT display for Jarduino. Sorry for the crappy pic's... just snapped them quick with my phone.
   Not as nice as something CNC'd... but it'll work. I'll try to cut the other pieces this weekend, but have to wait on some syringes to apply the weld-on 4 to arrive from ebay. (Pharmacist looked at me like I had 3 heads when I tried get some locally) Chris
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01-24-2013, 11:46 PM
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 How did you do it?If I can rally the energy tonight I'm gonna CNC my enclosure for my Typhon controller. It's been a REALLY exhausting week, so that's a big maybe... but we'll see 
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01-25-2013, 12:50 AM
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Just used a router... I built the table that you can partially see in the background when I made my tank. (8 years ago)
The piece came out decent.... the TFT display is flush with the back of the 3/8" thick acrylic, will router a hole in the side panel of the pendant for the ribbon cable to connect. Then I'll just use 2 small cap screws to secure the faceplate to the pendant side panel. I wish I had black acrylic to use instead, but that just isn't in the cards right now. (will probably use krylon fusion paint) Hopefully it will all come together ok. Chris
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01-25-2013, 01:41 AM
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Don't forget to post pic's when you get it done... I'm sure lots of people will be interested in what you come up with for the typhon, especially for the menu buttons. I wanted to build that controller, but could never just find anyone that had a spare PCB.
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01-25-2013, 01:02 PM
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Nice work Chris. I was thinking of doing something similar when it came time to do it. More of my parts are slowly trickling in. I tried uploading the 1.1 version sketch on to my Arduino and I'm having issues. First of all I found out the Arduino environment has to be tweaked a bit so it can handle such a large file transfer. Jamie provided a tweaked version with the download, but it's not Mac compatible. Du'oh!
So I commandeered my wife's laptop and finally got everything loaded there. What a pain. Funny how Windows illiterate you get when you work with a Mac for a while. Anyway, got everything running on the laptop, the sketch verify's good and load's onto the Arduino fine with no error's but my TFT screen is blank. Hmmmm.... The screen powers up fine it's just blank. So I'm not sure if I have a slightly different version of screen than he used in his programming and I need to change something in the code or what. That's where I'm at....
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01-25-2013, 04:21 PM
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. I've been taking pics along the way, so when I get time I'll put together a build thread.
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