Daily Five — habit panel with backlit icons (customizable)

Daily Five

A desk panel for five daily habits. Five toggle switches, five backlit icons: red means pending, flip the switch and it turns green. No screen, no app, nothing to charge or sync. You look at it and you flip it.

Pick your own icons. The online builder lets you choose up to five icons, preview them on the real model and download a 3MF ready for two-color printing: labs.ferced.com/tablero

Animated build guide. Every step is animated, almost without words, with the wiring in detail: labs.ferced.com/tablero/armado (EN / ES).

Files

• front-5-icons.3mf: the front panel with a sample set of icons as separate bodies (two colors). Make your own with the builder.

• front.step: the front panel without icons.

• mainframe.step: the body.

• proyector.step: the light projector. Print five, in white (it bounces the LED light onto the icon).

What you need

Printed parts (no supports): body · front panel with your icons · 5 × light projector, printed in white.

Electronics (no soldering):

• 5 × micro toggle switch, SPDT (3 pins, ON-ON)

• 5 × 5 mm RGB LED, common anode

• 5 × 220 Ω resistor

• MB102 breadboard power module (5 V from USB)

• 400-point breadboard

• Male–male jumper wires

• 4 × M3 × 6 hex-cap screws

Build

1. Print. Body, front panel and the five projectors. The panel comes from the builder as a 3MF with the icons as separate bodies, so they print in a second color. The projectors go in white so the light reaches the icon.

2. Switches. Push the five toggle switches into the panel from behind and tighten the nuts from the front.

3. LEDs. Seat a projector in the square pocket behind each icon, then push an LED into the 5 mm hole at the tip of the projector. The long leg is the anode.

4. Wiring. One circuit, repeated five times, each in its own column of the breadboard (see the photos):

• Power: the MB102 sits across the end of the breadboard. Red rail = 5 V, blue rail = GND.

• Resistor: 220 Ω from a hole of the + rail to row a.

• Anode: a wire from that same column to the LED's long leg.

• Ground: a wire from the − rail to the switch's middle pin.

• Colors: top pin → red leg, bottom pin → green leg. Switch down is red, switch up is green.

• Repeat for the other four circuits, each in its own column.

5. Close. Breadboard first: it rests on the platform inside the body, with the MB102 ports facing the two holes at the back. Then the front panel, and four M3 × 6 screws, two from the top and two from the bottom.

6. Done. Plug the USB. Every icon lights red. Flip a switch: green.

Designed and printed in Buenos Aires by Ferced. Also on MakerWorld.