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What is it?

The Ahmsville dial is an Arduino based device inspired by Microsoft’s surface dial, the dial serves as a secondary dial controller for your pc, something you can use in Fusion 360, Solidworks, Premier pro and other applications geared towards creators. It can also be used for quick launching applications, zooming and scrolling operations in various applications, controlling your systems media/audio, and also as a color based passkey to login to your system.

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Why did you make it?

I made the dial as a controller to aid me in my creative process, something that was very intuitive to use, built to last and based on a platform (Arduino) that’s easily accessible and customizable for other makers.

What makes it special?

• It has 4 mappable capacitive touch inputs, a contactless and robust rotary encoder design for the Knob, with vibration feedback and programmable leds.
• Its based on the arduino which gives makers a lot of options when it comes to the dial's functionalities.
• It has a Dedicated Arduino library with examples for easy programming.

Dial Features

• Magnetic Rotary Encoding (for contactless and smooth knob rotation).
• Capacitive touch top (Detects four touch types - single and double tap, short and long press).
• Programmable LEDs and vibration feedback.

Buy the Dial as a Kit or Fully Assembled

Kit Option 1 is the essentials only, you will get the Dial board, capacitive touch pad and the vibration motor, choose this option if you have all the other parts on hand.

The kit Option 1 includes:

• 1x Dial board.
• 1x Capacitive touch pad.
• 1x vibration motor.

Kit Option 2 is The Full Assembly Kit, you will get everything you need to make the dial for convenience, all you have to do is 3d print the enclosure from thingyverse. STL Files

The kit Option 2 includes:

• 1x Dial board.
• 1x Capacitive touch pad.
• 1x vibration motor.
• 1x Arduino pro micro (ss micro).
• 1x Individually addressable led strip.
• 1x 6906 Bearing.
• 30x (3x1 neodymium magnets).
• 6x (8mm rubber base pads).
• 1x usb cable.
• 6x (m3 self tapping screws).

Download Assembly Instructions

The fully assembled option includes:

• A fully assembled and fully functional 3D printed dial.