Make a Led Tron Desk and Led Tron Clock

Hello,

First excuse me for all my english mistakes...

Here is my Tron desk and Tron clock.

I should create my desk and why not create a special one :)

It was a very very VERY long work...I learn so much thing, it was fun and the result is really pretty!

What I need for the desk :

- oak wood plank (3 planks : 20 mm * 30 cm * 2 m) => Top desk

- spruce wood plank (3 planks : 20 mm * 30 cm * 2 m) => Bottom desk

- one wood router

- resin

- one ledenet (wifi - led controller)

- a 12V/10A alimentation

- a 5m led strip

- wood wax

- black pen

What I need for the clock :

- oak wood plank (20 mm * 30 cm * 2 m)

- one wood router

- resin

- a 12V/10A alimentation

- an arduino

- a 12V/5Vtransformer

- a led strip adressable WS2812b

- a RTC DS1307 module

No how I get the idea?

When I saw this resin table, I decide to make my own.

But not with a river, I am not a fisherman, I am a geek!

I need something pretty, that every geek recognize and LED compatible.

Ok let's go to Cortana...Good idea but it is definitly too WAF expensive!

And why not the Tron motobike? => Perfect :)

Fisrt, make a good drawing.

For this I use Gimp and print the drawing at the real size.

Here is the construct schema and how all parts are assembled.

I need a 186cm*90cm desk, but there is no plank with this size.

Ok, let's go to create one.

Use the router to make some groove.

Then introduce a small wood piece, and glue the plank.

Maintain with some strap.

This step was very stressful because a mistake is not allowed!

The 2 circles was "easy" to do with the router, but the curves was more difficult to achieve.

I use the real size drawing to mark the circle center.

Then, like Jules Cesar said : "Alea jacta est" !

When this is done and you don't make a mistake, use some sealant (good word ?) for the wood holes.

This step is very simple, there is no difficulty.

You just have to check that the led strip will be a the good place :)

This step was stressful for me.

It was the first time I used resin and perhaps the result would be bad...

First I need to evaluate the resin volume. I used the "rice unit" for this evaluation.

A good idea at the beginning but in fact, I underestimated the resin volume :(

Then you just have to fill the holes with the resin.

When it is dry, use a sander.

The sander step is really long but the result is very beautiful!

We are close to the end :)

Now it is time to draw the motorbike.

For this step I buy 6 differents black permanent pen to be sure to have the best :)

Then, it is not diffcult but you have to be patient and do not shake!

The wax finition

The wifi ledenet was controlled by BRGLight andorid application.

Ok, it is good and very usefull, but I want to control it with my line code.

I use tpacketcapture to capture the transmission between the BRGLight aplpication and the ledenet.

Then I use wireshark to analyse the captured packet :

- Protocol UDP

- Data : c9 02 00 0a ff

Let's simulate an UDP packet with Eclipse in Java (see Main.java).

OMG => It's work!!!

With a python program on my raspberry pi, I can now control my desk.

For example, the default color is red. But when I receive a new mail, the desk becomes green.

When someone phone to me and I didn't answered, the desk becomes blue :)

The clock is only compose with circle, and circles are easy to make with a router.

The most difficult is to determine the circle diameter.

I need 120 Leds for the minutes, 120 leds for the seconds => diameter 26.3 cm

I need 96 Leds for the hours => diameter 21.2 cm

The difficulty of this step is in the little circle, they are really slim...

The resin phase was a simple formality:)

It is not really difficult.

The code is a little bit more funny to write (see clock.ino file)

I have a bug at 0h and 12h. Need to fix it!

Once again, circle, circle, circle...

Perfect :)

It was very long to make but very instructive for me :)

I am really happy to have a geek desk!

Now my son want a Star wars desk and my girl a Hello kitty desk...