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!
The Lenovo 100S is a good little laptop, but it has one drawback, as Windows has continued to bloat, the onboard solid state disk drive of 32GB (in reality 28GB) has become increasingly inadequate, with e.g. Windows updates no longer being able to be... Read More | Share it now!
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!
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!
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!