A while back I had an idea to make an actual paintress who rises up and "paints" a new number on her monolith. I was finally able to put it together.

It uses a servo and a stepper motor to turn/lift the paintress. And a small OLED screen is used to show the number.

It rises every day. Currently it counts days until The Game Awards show. But when Sandfall announces a DLC or a new game, I'll switch it to count down to the release day. I can control it with my phone by sending a date to count down to and the gommage time when the gommage happens.

Everything is modeled from scratch by me with Blender. It was quite an ambitious project, so I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Here is a video to show the Paintress in action.

Parts:

• ESP32
• 28BYJ-48 Stepper Motor
• SG90 Servo
• ULN2003 Driver
• 2x 688RS Bearings 8x16x5mm
• 1.3" OLED Display SH1106
• Thin Nylon Cord