![]() … for those that want to venture into the journey of building this: Using the 4017 decade counters is an unnecessarily complicated way to control the LEDs. With the initial design in place (well – sketched out rather quickly on a piece of paper at least) I was ready to move on to actually figuring what it would take to build this – how many and which parts I would need, which Arduino controller to use etc. So I started sketching down a few ideas for the control panel until I reached a look that I was happy with. ![]() Bob Lander’s beautiful little control panel toy, was also an inspiration, but I wanted to build something with a bit more interactivity. Jeff High Smith’s amazing spaceship toy and Duncan Jauncey’s remix of it were great inspirations, but were a bit too big a mouthful for me since I was lacking: a) Enough experience to build it, b) Enough time to gain the experience and c) I wanted the project to be controlled only by an Arduino to make it simpler (and cheaper) than having to interface with e.g. So I trawled the internet for tutorials on simple Arduino toy tutorials to get inspired by, but I couldn’t quite find exactly what I was looking for.
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