This is my second project on Hackaday.io. This time I will focus on the end product aspect of the project rather than just playing with electronics.

The goal of this project is to build an electronic gadget device that my wife will approve to put on display in our living room. This means we will have to work on aesthetics a lot - no hanging wires, nice enclosure, usable interface. The enclosure will be made of painted lasercut plywood with LED lighted sides (see bellow) and the control user interface will be presented on OLED monochrome graphical display. Hopefully it will be enough.

Inspired by one of my competitors project during Sci-Fi contest, the Fifth Element Stone Mood Lighting, I decided to throw in some RGB LEDs to light up my project. The idea is to use Adafruit's NeoPixels to light the sides of the enclosure for ambient lighting effects and for notification purposes.

Thought by previous experience with delivery problems, this time I did a complete list of hard to find elements (at least in Poland), and order it with courier deliver (no Post Office this time). Components on the way:

• Thermal Printer
• OLED graphical display
• NeoPixels modules

I already have a Spark core, so that simplifies things a bit. This allows me to work on reading new article titles from hackaday.com home page.

That's all for now, I'll write more soon.