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Wireless home router with analogue utilisation meter

Step 2Front panel

Front panel
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I desoldered the LEDs from the router's pcb and routed them out to the front with a ribbon cable and header connector.

Designed an overlay in Omnigraffle on a MAC, printed on to overhead projector film with a laserjet, there's an inkjet equivalent. Chiseled out a channel for the overlay so it had a nice inset look.

I fell in love with a power switch from a piece of development hardware at work, unfortunately it was a momentary switch so I spent quite a lot of time retro fitting a N/O microswitch with a blue LED glued to the tip.

The edge of the large front panel section was routered.


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Sep 9, 2008. 5:17 PMVyui3 says:
Is there any way I can get a copy of that 'icon strip'? I'd love to do something similar to this, and I absolutely adore what you've done here. -- Thanks

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