I documented my adventures with a tower clock about 7 years ago . It has kept working over that time, but I have had to replace the minute hand drive motor a couple of times as the gears had stripped teeth. The latest one uses a helical (worm)... Read More | Share it now!
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Adding a Qi / USB phone charger to a Leitner Libelle e-bike
When cycling in unfamiliar territory, it is good to be able to have Google maps available, the trouble is, a) mounting the phone, and b) charging it. I found out that these problems were fairly easy to solve. The charger I bought was... Read More | Share it now!
Leitner E-Bike LCD Panel Control
Having recently bought some Leitner Libelle’s, and not finding this information anywhere else (including in their manuals), I thought I would document my findings here: These instructions apply to the Leitner Libelle, and presumably also for... Read More | Share it now!
Arduino Tower Clock
Notes: 1. This is documenting a Tower Clock that I installed in January 2015. It has been running successfully since then. Given that background, some of the code might not be compatible with current versions of the Arduino environment. 2. This is... Read More | Share it now!
Javascript: Find next nth day of month
Having looked around for code that will find the next, say 4th Wednesday, or the next 5th Sunday, I decided to write my own. The problem is that most solutions I found do not handle the 5th Sunday problem correctly. This is my solution. First the... Read More | Share it now!