Daniel - CrowStudio
A note to the schematic:
The "wires" from the schematic is there to illustrate where the circuit will be hooked up to the RGB LED on the PCB, the R LED that looks like it is in parallel with it is actual the Red part of the RGB LED.
I have made a spice simulation of my circuit by using LTSpice. This is as a proof of concept before doing the actual hack. It is very nice to be able to test your circuit before buying all the components, in case you got a brain fart, it might save you some time and money ;-)
The optocoupler and voltage source, down in the right corner of the LTSpice window, simulates the push button that will wake up the background LED.
Michał Nowotka
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Chris Chung
Instead of using the electronic circuit as you propose here, I intend to use one of those TTP223 touch buttons ( https://www.aliexpress.com/item/5PCS-TTP223-Touch-Key-Switch-Module-Touching-Button-Self-Locking-No-Locking-Capacitive-Switches-Single-Channel/32807399108.html?spm=2114.search0302.3.9.761249ffU9YfQ8&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_0_453_454_10618_536_317_537_319_10059_10696_10084_10083_10304_10821_10843_10887_10307_321_322_10065_10068_10301_10103_10884_10820,searchweb201603_0,ppcSwitch_0&algo_pvid=bd7743ee-48b3-4d87-90f8-4fd3cd3b0ef6&algo_expid=bd7743ee-48b3-4d87-90f8-4fd3cd3b0ef6-1 )
Easy connection, one can glue the switch to the outside (back) of the clock.
Yet my problem first how to open the case as I still need to solder the I/O pin to one of the colored display LEDs.