Amazing DIY computer control panel

David Pescovitz 7:40 am Fri Aug 21, 2015

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If only all computer interfaces were as gloriously sci-fi as this excellent "DIY Overhead Control Panel" hand-built by a maker called Smashcuts. It features a slew of LEDs and 100 programmable buttons and switches that activate shortcuts on his PC, open apps, control volume and screen preferences, etc.

Click here for more images and build notes.

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Above: "The green section turns on the different programs I run most often. The top row triggers Chrome, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects and iTunes."

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Above: "The top four switches control the control panel (brightness, backlight, ect) Bottom controls the panel's AI mastermind override (currently broken)."

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Above: "'More Rock' and 'Less Rock' control volume."

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