rescued the DC3 this summer, and finally got around to teachin this old dog new tricks.  here’s the frame with the lenses removed, and about 1/2 the guts cut loose.

the cork for the glass is molded and rotted, hey, she’s 13 years old or so…

here’s the new brain on the bench.  11 channel touch sensor, at90usb1287, and level shifter set to drive 4 led strip channels (clocked simultaneously), looking like 8 led on an edge, so that’s 80 strip led’s going in to replace the 6 handmade ones.

gotta put a shout out to saleae for their logic8 bit analyzer, pulling SPI data live off the bus is a big win talking to “smart” slaves…..

and here’s the long look with strip on the bench and bc7#10 getting his firmware firmed up.

this is what she used to look like, soon to be 10x brighter and 100x smarter!!!