This extremely hasty sketch is going to be my next project. I spent my free time today in Fusion designing the object but the 3D printer needs some maintenance before we can start fabricating.
Oh also I have a lot of coding to do.
Jan 19, 2026 05:14End of work session progress
Continued progress on the housing. I’m trying trying trying to think this through as a proper toy design exercise including how to keep the wiring as nice as possible
Jesse STOP you have so much other more important work to do
Brief pause on the project because the 3D printer needed some serious maintenance. Replacing/repairing all four filament feeders.
Ooooh the problem was a crummy one! Cracked housing deep in the ams was the root of all problems.
I was gonna scream two hours ago and now I feel like a Real Man Who Fixed a Thing!
And then I 3D printed a part to fix it the next time it cracks.
The problem with wanting to do things The Right Way from now on… is it’s hard and takes more time.
Technically this is a 14 day project but the dead printer put us on a 2 week hiatus
Nailed it. A short 22 hours to print the top. Sigh.
Welp. It took forever and I got really freaking close, but not enough room for batteries, need to re-engineer the lens, move some stuff around for stability. But at least I nailed all the measurements and the screw placement. Power switch fits perfect too!
Version 2 ! Everything fits slightly better. And the lens snaps pleasingly into place.
Unfortunately the next step is some extremely fiddly soldering that I am not looking forward to.
Man I hope I didn’t mess that up because that was awful
Welp! Finding the one tiny little error causing the short circuit meant even more fiddly soldering, but I did manage a success, and I have code that correctly jumps to the inner ring at the same spot each time
Knob. Lightning. Test fit
Need to up the infill on the knob to make it more opaque. But I’m mostly pleased with the setup.
Controls mostly work. I think the FEEDBACK COULD BE BETTER? I might want to design a different knob that shows the LED position better
Putting off the coding because quite honestly, I remember the last one was a bear to move from the breadboard to the object, so this time I’m going to make the object the build site since it’s gonna be pretty simple. Two rotary encoders, a speaker, battery, a Nano, and a fuckton of rgb leds.
