The [<googa>https://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-store/products/status-board-pro |Status Board] </googa> from The Pi Hut is just about the simplest and most affordable controller available for Box Of Stops.
While it was clearly not designed with this in mind, the combination of five input buttons (available cheaply separately), each with two related LEDs is ideal to drive a few controls in Box Of Stops.
To make best use of the buttons, typically they are assigned to [[Combination|combinations]], but in fact they are just normal [[Trigger|triggers]] in Box Of Stops - [[Coupler|couplers]] and [[Stop|stops]] can be assigned too. Then the LEDs on the Status Board will show which buttons are active and/or playing.
[[File:Status-board-standalone.jpg|300px]]
== What to buy ==
Then press the chosen button to toggle its related control - the green LED will show while it is playing, and the red LED while it is off.
[[File:Status-board-on-pi.jpg|300px]]
If you want to track which controls are assigned to which buttons, the Status Board is designed to be written on with a drywipe marker.
Alternatively, as shown in the picture above, another solution is to print the layout. For example, edit and cut out this <googa>http://boxofstops.com/layouts/status-board-sample-registration.docx|Word document</googa> (file scanned for viruses, but please do so too).
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