September 22

Jewelry Box FAQ

Along the way, I’ve gone back and forth between components, boards, displays, and the lack of using parts I listed in my Parts post. I hope this sorts out the hurdles, and helps someone that stumbles across my site.

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September 17

Jewelry Box: Finished Product

This project is finally done. There was a lot of learning from both electronics and woodworking, with planning and patience playing the biggest role. This was my first time with a woodworking project, and thought it’d be mostly straightforward: design, measure, prototype, measure again, finalize, and build. While this was mostly true, there were things that I didn’t consider, which made the build that much more difficult to finalize and build.

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February 20

Jewelry Box: Components Complete

There are two factors to making this sketch complete:

  • if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it, and
  • don’t reinvent the wheel, if all you need is new tread

The example sketches provide much of what I want to do, and they work in the way I need for my jewelry box; refer back to the two points! With the exception of a few changes to function calls, and minor code addition, the majority of the sketch is a copy/paste from example sketches.

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