{"id":5741,"date":"2015-04-26T17:46:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T21:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/?p=5741"},"modified":"2015-04-26T17:46:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T21:46:57","slug":"grandfather-floor-clock-interior-lighting-build-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/26\/grandfather-floor-clock-interior-lighting-build-install\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandfather floor clock interior lighting \u2013 Build & Install"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it came time to integrate this into the clock my goal was to make it as invisible as possible and to make the fewest alterations to the clock itself. \u00a0I decided to put the electronics on the top of the clock. \u00a0It is high enough that only a very tall person would see it, require only a few small holes in the cabinet and readily accessible for the inevitable repair & upgrades.<\/p>\n

I put the circuit together on a Seeed Studios protoshield<\/a> because I had one at hand. \u00a0It has plenty of room for upgrades and was quite easy to work with. \u00a0I added a pig-tail to connect the incoming 12v supply to the Arduino Uno board and a separate power connector to feed the LED strips. \u00a0I also used pin headers for the connections to the PIR sensor, button and photoresistor. \u00a0These parts will be mounted to the case so I wanted to make it easy to remove the electronics without breaking out the iron.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2994\"<\/a> \"IMG_2998\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMG_2997\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I swapped the huge arcade button for a much smaller push-button mainly because I didn’t have a drill big enough to make a hole for the arcade button. I did manage to get it shoe-horned into a small case along with a small top mounted hole for the photo sensor. I mounted the PIR sensor in a separate case so I could move it around the clock for best performance in the space. The are connected with standard 1\/8 inch stereo audio cables. \u00a0I mounted the PIR sensor well off-center in the case so that I could stand it on one end and have it extend past the trim piece on the top of the cabinet.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3111\"<\/a>\"IMG_3127\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After taking a very deep breath, I drilled a small hole in top of the cabinet into the interior of the clock. \u00a0 I positioned the hole close to a corner so I could route the wires in the least visible place. \u00a0I did not want to see the wires or LED strips\u00a0from the outside of the clock but I wanted the clock face and mechanism to be lit. \u00a0After considerable testing I found that mounting one strip on the top door frame facing down lit the face nicely while a strip on one of the cross members facing inwards highlighted the mechanism quite nicely. \u00a0I had a small piece of weather stripping on my bench (don’t ask) and that provided a nice downward\u00a0facing angle for the mechanism strip.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3108\"<\/a> \"IMG_3110\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I did have a bit of trouble getting the LED strip to stick to the plastic weatherstripping — \u00a0a touch of hot glue took care of that. \u00a0The last step was to route the wires to the LED strips. \u00a0I used 22 gauge clear speaker wire. \u00a0I tacked it to the cabinet with a bit more hot clue to the hinge side of the door. \u00a0It is quite invisible unless you completely open the door. \u00a0I put the control box on the top of the cabinet well back from the edge so you cannot see it. \u00a0The PIR sensor is all that is visible but it small enough to be unobtrusive. \u00a0The entire contraption is powered by a small 12v 1.2A wall wart.<\/p>\n

Overall I am quite pleased with the result. \u00a0It does cast a very nice light onto the clock face and mechanism and provides a small amount of general lighting to the area; just enough for when we are making snack runs from the TV room to the kitchen. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Two things are less-than perfect. \u00a0You can see the individual LEDs in the reflections around the clock face. \u00a0I could solve this with a bit of diffusion plastic on the LED strip but… meh, it’s not really that noticeable. \u00a0Secondly, it occasionally goes into these on-off-on-off… death cycles. \u00a0The only way to interrupt it is to remove the power. \u00a0I’ve looked at the code and I can’t figure out how this is happening. \u00a0At the moment it is rare enough that I just live with it.<\/p>\n

I’ll post a video of it in operation when I have a few extra minutes.<\/p>\n

Questions are invited!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it came time to integrate this into the clock my goal was to make it as invisible as possible and to make the fewest alterations to the clock itself. \u00a0I decided to put the electronics on the top of the clock. \u00a0It is high enough that only a very tall person would see it, … Continue reading Grandfather floor clock interior lighting \u2013 Build & Install<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[653,664],"tags":[778,667,688,689,690,654,655,665,247,659],"class_list":["post-5741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iot","category-projects","tag-arduino","tag-diy","tag-floor-clock","tag-grandfather-clock","tag-herman-miller","tag-iot-2","tag-led-strip","tag-led-strip-light","tag-light","tag-microcontroller"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5759,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions\/5759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}