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Giorgos Lazaridis writes:
The idea for this project came from Viktor’s site, a guy that has some interesting projects in his DIY subdirectory. He cloned a HDD spindicator with 10 LEDs driven from a 4017 chip. I liked the idea but the implementation was kinda… sterilized. So, i decided to make one for my PC, but spice it up with PWM control…
HDD LED Spindicator - [Link]
This project is an alternative hard disk activity indicator build using 10 LEDs. It works by rotating the LED light like a dekatron tube. The article explores many ways to connect the hard disk activity indicator to motherboard and concluded to negative edge triggered with a lowpass filter. On the link below you can find construction details and schematics. [via]
Spindicator: hard-disk activity indicator – [Link]
