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Classy USB status box

Statbox2
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool

Flickr member OldScot built this aesthetically pleasing data display using a Freeduino, 4 surplus LED telephone displays and a housed it all in a photo display box - nice!

- STATBox on Flickr

a bunch more pertinent project/code details can be found on his site - USB StatusBox

Mkfl1-2T Mkad9-2T
ArduinoUSB7 6 Digit LED Display Kit & DC Boarduino (Arduino Clone) Kit

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Posted by: timmaah on October 9, 2008 at 8:10 AM

Great minds think a like...

I put this together a few months back..

http://www.82smugglers.com/blog/?p=7

And my weather status box that was on make as well..
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/02/arduino_powered_weather_s.html

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Posted by: OldScot on October 9, 2008 at 4:20 PM

Hello timmaah,

Nice job on your displays! I had been thinking I needed smoked glass for the display and yours prove it. I also use mine to monitor services, in my case imaging web services at work.

Now if only the displays were still available for $1...

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Posted by: Collin Cunningham on October 9, 2008 at 6:37 PM

yeah if they were still a buck each, might even be pics of a third here - good stuff.

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