A screen-accurate console standing nearly a metre and a half tall — printed in translucent PETG, lit from within by addressable LEDs, and detailed by hand down to the last switch.
This has been the build that ate my spring. The central time rotor is an octagonal stack that actually rises and glows, ringed by six control panels carrying somewhere north of two hundred individually placed switch caps. The translucent walls were the whole gamble: print them too thick and the glow dies, too thin and they warp. Several reprints later, the amber gradient finally reads exactly like the reference photos.
I’m documenting it panel by panel below — the wins, the reprints, and the tolerance tweaks — so anyone wanting to take on something this size can see how it actually went together.
close-up
photo coming soon
detail
photo coming soon
Wired and tested the addressable LEDs in the central column. The amber gradient came out better than the reference photos — the translucent PETG diffuses it perfectly. Photos to come once the top dome is back on.
Finished detailing all six control panels — roughly 240 individually placed switch caps. My tweezers and I are no longer on speaking terms, but they look fantastic.
Base hexagon assembled and glued. Test-fit of the central column showed it needs a 2mm tolerance tweak before final assembly — reprinting the collar.
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