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A project log for Distance Analyzer 3000

Measuring device housed in an Altoids tin. Uses a rotary encoder with a wheel to estimate distance and display measurements on an LCD.

john-hamannJohn Hamann 11/26/2014 at 07:070 Comments

This is my first project on hackaday.io and I'm not a very experienced maker/hacker, but I think this project fits into the Pro-Trinket EDC idea and it'll be a good learning experience.

The idea is to make a measuring device to measure linear distances easier than a measuring tape. The Altoids tin makes a great housing and it fits in the hand nicely. There is going to be an LCD on the lid of the tin as well as a reset button that clears the current measurement. The screen will be protruding from the face of the lid. The rotary encoder is going to be mounted facing down with the rod poking through the bottom. And the battery will go somewhere inside.

The GUI will read out the measurements with units and then I might have another button that cycles through unit conversions.

This idea is basically all in my head right now and it's like 1am and I still need to do homework, but obviously this is far more important.

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