HackTrack

HackTrack is going to be a system to keep track of who's been spending time cleaning the lab (HackLab.TO) and award points and such for doing so.

Ideas

• Lots of switches and knobs to flip/dial, LEDs to blink
  • Some number of big toggle switches to identify which tasks you have completed
  • LEDs with each of these switches for ... something
  • Space beside each toggle/LED for a written label identifying what the task is
  • A toggle switch with associated selector knob for an 'other' option, knob to specify minutes put into lab cleanup
  • 20x2 LCD screen for feedback and because I like LCD screens
  • Three large red/yellow/green LEDs to give feedback on something (mostly because someone suggested it would look cool)

• HID reader to identify members
• Ethernet connection to send data to a message queue
• Arduino to tie everything together
• Acrylic front/back panels (as we can cut them on our lazzor), standoffs between them

Build Log

Before 2011-02-27

• Put basic design together
• Decided on the MiniProx HID reader that another lab member was going to be freeing up soon, designed front panel
• ...found it wasn't going to be freed up after all
• Redesigned front panel for the ProxPro HID reader that I had laying around
• ...found it was really big and the acrylic i wanted to use wasn't big enough
• Redesigned front panel for the ProxPoint Plus that another member donated to the project