Hi guys,
Please forgive if this is wildly off topic.
I've been working build give an office building in London a hackable API, to allow all kinds of interesting stuff to happen inside it, and I've been looking for a decent supplier of high quality attractive pushbuttons to trigger stuff inside it.
I'm new here, so please forgive me steaming in with an in depth question, but ...
I'm working on a project where the black void here in needs to be replaced with a nice big very durable button which would fill the gap, and ideally keep in with the same metal aesthetic on display here.
You can see the same photo here on flickr, with annotations on flickr.com/photos/daggi/3276473551/
The plan here it to get a chunky button that talks to an arduino, that triggers a blinkM style light array to beneath the drilled holes spelling 'bye', then sends a request to the door actuator to open the door.
The blinkM and actuator stuff is okay, but jeez, finding a decent supplier of attractive looking, durable pushbuttons is so, so, so much harder than it needs to be.
Any ideas?
For what it's worth, the building runs on an pythonic open source access control system that we built and put on github for others to use, and that's what the button will talk eventually talk to, so if anyone is looking for an open source access control solution for any clients, you're welcome to fork off it, hack on it and use it in any of your own projects just search github for 'doord'.
Okay, that's me for now.
Have a good weekend everyone,
Chris