Thanks in advance for any help you guys can offer. This post got away from me a bit, so I really appreciate anyone who takes the time to read it. I was unable to find an answer to this question elsewhere on the forum, and I think it could be a cool (and relatively cheap) project for a lot of peopl…

Great work keep us posted. I have been watching this thread in extreme interest.

Great job! Can’t wait to see the final setup

Thanks for the encouragement! Is there anyone out there with a 7" Fire tablet and a 3D printer that would like to test the fit of my brackets? My tablet won’t be here until the 30th. I can forward the STL file if interested. Thanks!

Mission (mostly) Accomplished! Th tablet arrived early, so I was able to test out the brackets and tweak them a bit. Now that I know everything fits, I’ll be reprinting the brackets at a higher quality, as the current set is very rough. They’re mounted with command strips, so they’re very easy to…

Very nice and clean looking. Thank you for sharing your project. One thing I would do with the switch is flip it upside down. That way you don’t have to remove the tablet to get to the light switch.

Thanks! I thought about flipping the switch, but the way the USB cable I got is aligned, it would be facing in the wrong direction if I flipped it. Then I thought about doing it anyway and flipping the tablet as well, but that puts the power cord on the top-left corner, making it really visible. G…

is that LAMP CORD you used between the switch and the module??? That’s a no-no.

It’s not lamp cord, it’s just some small-gauge wire I had lying around. You need 18 AWG wire for the signal connection between the controller and the switch. I’m pretty sure it’s just a little DC circuit that just tells the controller if the switch is on. You think that’s a concern?

Great Post, I have been trying to figure out how to do this for awhile now. I have a similar light switch with the USB ports on it. Any idea how complex it would be to replace 3 switches (2 are 3 pole)? The spot where I want to put my tablet has three switches in its place. I planned on replaci…

Thanks! If I’m understanding you right, you’ve currently got 3 switches in a 3-gang box on the wall, and would like to put a tablet over it. I don’t see a reason why you couldn’t replace all 3 switches with the same controller that I used, and then install a blank over the 2 now-unused slots. Tha…

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