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An art project I made to be shown at work, specifically at my cubicle. I have some bezels from various storage appliances, and since some of them either have light pipes for status LEDs, or embedded LEDs, I figured I'd make them and the desktop rack do something other than collect dust.

I actually have a second set of these, because idiot me ordered the common anode version of the part instead of the common cathode version. While both part houses I use (Digikey and Mouser) have both part numbers, one had the CA version, and the other had the CC version, but not both. :(

Building the Pure bracket was interesting, and if I needed to do it over again, Id do it differently. the molex connector is attached to the chunk of protoboard, and since it requires 12 volts, it also acts as the power ingress for the entire project. the LEDs and Scorpio board are driven off a 12 volt to 5 volt adapter (the blue thing next to the black connector to the right of the printed parts), and the bezel plugs in to the molex connector. (that was also a difficult part to source, because Molex has a hojillion different part numbers for a 2x2 connector.)

I did eventually find the right connector part number, got a couple ordered, and Viola! it works!

A size comparison: the i2c backback, its mating 4 digit LED display, and the tiny led module the Netapp disk shelves use.

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