I tidied my breadboard, trimming the resistors and wires for the buttons and LEDs.
Then, moving on to the cable management behind the palette, I tried braiding and twisting the wires for each component and then considered making some wire art that I picked up from a sculpting class. However, I realized I wouldn’t have enough space after adding all the buttons and LEDs.
I sandwiched the wiring and electrical components between two palettes so users could pick up the palette in their arms as intended without damaging any of the technical parts.
According to a shop staff member, all the hot glue guns were out on the floor, probably put inside someone’s red bin. They were also out of tape. So, I found some Elmer’s all purpose glue and began gluing things down. Fortunately, someone returned a hot glue gun that I used. But the shop was also out of glue sticks to refill the gun with. So, I had to manage with reusing some of my original tape, a single stick of hot glue, and Elmer’s all purpose glue.
I rolled up cardboard to place as a buffer inbetween the palettes to even the spacing between the palettes and to prevent the palette from pressing against the reset button on the microcontroller.
Here is a demonstration of the various things you can do with the switchboard palette!
Screen Recording 2022-12-11 at 8.48.33 PM.mov
Here’s a simultaneous screen recording of the interaction. The recording is longer than the video because I forgot to hit start on my phone, so the interactions are featured twice in the screen recording.