As part of this weeks update, while I wait for my package to arrive, I have got the project underway by 3D designing and printing test part for two of the mirror panels as you see in the picture below. As of now, I have the 3D printed parts printed in blue PLA, but as part of the final setup I plan to have the parts printed in wood PLA and apply wood stain to match the rustic look of the clock..
The first panel is going to hold the display, here I plan to use the Grove LCD RGB backlight display which is part of the Grove sensor kit. For now as you see in the picture below, I am using a old LCD display which I had laying around. And, also hoping the dimension of the grove display will match the part I printed 
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As part of the second panel I have two tactile buttons and a potentiometer with a fancy knob attached to it. This will be basically used to setup things like the alarm, cycle through temperature and weather conditions on the grove LCD...
The parts were designed in Autodesk Fusion 360 and 3D printed on a Flashforge 3D printer.
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Autodesk Fusion 360 used to design the panel |
Second panel printed using 1.75 mm blue PLA |
Wires solder'ed to POT which will connected to A0 on the Intel Edison Arduino board |
Pot and button added to the 3D printed part, the plan here is to use hot glue to hold the buttons to 3D printed part |
In addition, here I would like to give a shout-out to Mark mcb1 for posting multiple comments on my previous blog, which got me thinking of an alternative to adding the pot to the clock, with out impacting its aesthetics.Basically, adding the pot as part of panel gives me an opportunity to replace it with the mirror, if I require to in the future.
