{"id":21,"date":"2012-04-20T22:10:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T03:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monopoly.foxtailsoftware.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2013-07-14T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T21:26:52","slug":"the-gathering-of-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monopoly.furdaze.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"The Gathering (of Materials)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be an ongoing process, acquiring all the stuff needed to make this project a reality.\u00a0 I&#8217;m actually back-dating a few of these posts as I&#8217;m starting the documentation process, so I may have skipped a few steps here and there.\u00a0 Anyway, here&#8217;s some of the stuff that&#8217;s already come together to start making this happen.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acrylic, and lots of it!\u00a0 Turns out a local plastics supplier, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regal-plastics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Regal Plastics<\/a>, has a scrap pile.\u00a0 You can go rummage around and get their leftovers for cheap.\u00a0 I picked up a variety of different plastics including opaque black, translucent white, and transparent clear for about $8.00.\u00a0 Hopefully I have enough for what I need to do, but even if not, it gives me lots of material to test with and decide what will work best.<\/li>\n<li>Acrylic solvent adhesive.\u00a0 Wanted to get Weld-on from the plastic supply house, but they were out of applicators.\u00a0 I ended up getting some adhesive from a local hobby shop instead.\u00a0 Either way, the stuff actually causes the two acrylic pieces to fuse together into one, giving a nice strong joint.<\/li>\n<li>RGB LEDs.\u00a0 Got a few packs from eBay.\u00a0 Probably have more of these than I need, but wanted to have spares and extras in case my plan of one LED per space turned out to be infeasible.<\/li>\n<li>White LEDs.\u00a0 No sense in wasting an RGB LED on a section of the board that has a native color, like the property bars or the In Jail section.\u00a0 Just light those with a simple white LED and move on with life.<\/li>\n<li>Netduino microcontroller board.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve done raw PIC programming before and played with an Arduino a bit, and this time I&#8217;m going to try something different.\u00a0 A coworker was doing a project with this, but realized he needed a more powerful board, so I got this from him at a discount.\u00a0 May as well see if it&#8217;ll do the job I want!<\/li>\n<li>Two line LCD display.\u00a0 Rather than have a huge switch bank, we want to reduce the number of controls needed for this.\u00a0 To do that, we&#8217;ll need to provide user feedback about what those controls are doing.\u00a0 Two lines of LCD display seem to be quite sufficient for my purposes.<\/li>\n<li>Lots of miscellaneous electronics parts.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been projecting for a while now, so there&#8217;s lots and lots of goodies in my bins already.\u00a0 Many of them should be useful in this process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also have picked up a couple of plastic-specific saw blades for my table saw and miter saw.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve worked reasonably well so far, but I&#8217;m hoping that I&#8217;ll learn even more about how to best use them to get nice, solid, clean cuts in this material.\u00a0 The less sanding and edge-polishing I have to do, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be an ongoing process, acquiring all the stuff needed to make this project a reality.\u00a0 I&#8217;m actually back-dating a few of these posts as I&#8217;m starting the documentation process, so I may have skipped a few steps here and there.\u00a0 Anyway, here&#8217;s some of the stuff that&#8217;s already come together to start making 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