Alarm Clock Mods

Okay, you will need some type of desk drawer thingee or something like it.

Disassemble everthing:

You can take out the center divide with a screwdriver like this:

You should get something like this:

Cut the bottom board you took out earlier so it will fit the frame on top.

Put one of the cut board on top and your proto-board on it.

Make a hole where you will get your LCD cable and some LEDs through:

Solder on the 4pin connector male onto the bottom of the proto-board and you will get something like this:

Solder on 3 Blue LEDs on the bottom of the proto-board next to the male connector:

Solder on a 100 Ohm resistor from the end of the 3 Blue LEDs to ground:

Connect the 4-pin connector to 5V and ground:

Solder on two 4.7K Ohm to P8 and P9 to 5V. This is for the I2C line for the LCD. You need 4.7K Pull-up resistors for the data lines SCL and SDA.

Now connect SCL and SDA to the 4-pin connector and you are almost ready to goto your Christmas party.

Connect the LCD and power it on! (My gf is getting mad becaz of this project but I am almost finshed!!!)

Now connect 2 wires from the bottom of the proto-board on P10 and P11. These will be connected to our push-switches (IO tact switch) .

Here's the IO Tact switches that we will embedd onto our drawer thingee:

Connect the Ground and 5V together on the back of the IO Tact switches:

Drill some holes and fit them on your other half of top board. You can hot-glued them on like we did:

You should have the 4 lines coming from the bottom of your proto-board for the IO Tact switches:

Pull those wires through the holes and wire them to your IO Tact switches:

Hot-glue your LCD on to the frame:

Use screws to screw on the proto-board to the top board:

Hot glue the top boards to the frame and hot glue anything that's not:

Power it on and see if it's working...

You can use a piece of binder like we did to cover over the LEDs, so they will diffuse and mix colors!