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Wiring and Light Control

A project log for Kerbal Spaceship Potato

This is an input focused control panel for Kerbal Space Program.

matthew-peverillMatthew Peverill 10/28/2019 at 12:490 Comments

Now that the basic circuits are lined up it's time to start wiring. I wired up some of the LEDs and wrote a script to let them be controlled by buttons.

Only issues at this point are:

1. The light test button isn't working. This may also be a loose wire (I continue to have problem with the budget wires I bought - so not worth it).

2. My wiring is a mess:

This level of chaos will become truly frightful extended to all the other connections I need to make for this build. Even worse because in later versions I want backlit controls, which will need me to keep the wires away from labels (or maybe I'll just need to rely on diffusion). It seems like the best bet would be to fasten wires to the panels somehow, but I'm not exactly sure how to do that (and it would be easier with thinner wires).

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