Thinking of a new gadget...

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Here are a few pictures showing the assembly of this "gadget".

This first image is just for fun - could not resist to put it in here. That tiny speckle on my finger is one of the resistors to be soldered in... Luckily, my wife is an optometrician



The PCB itself (that tiny resistor from previous image is actually in the left-top corner). This is the side that ended up being "double decker" - LED chip goes on top of these parts. This is how I saved the 1/8"



The "business side", with decoder and microcontroller.



Display chip in place. This is a 3-segment black face LED, allowing me to get rid of the seam lines between digits from previous iterations. Looks much better imho. Also, LED color is cold white - about the same color as the Honda instrument cluster light.



Added the light sensor, ambient temp sensor and wiring harness. Also, that blocky black thing is an ultra compact 1A buck regulator (for efficiency's sake...)



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