With all of my recent mechanical ministrations, Bonecrusher has become a relatively trouble free ride. I’ve had time to focus my attention on fixing a particularly annoying design decision that Honda made with its CB motorcycles back in the 70s.
When you use a turn signal on a Honda CB, the turn signals blink and a [...]
Last March I was bored and decided to build a clock using analog meters. My idea was to use three analog meters with scales that went from 1-12, 0-59, and 0-59 and indicated hours, minutes, and seconds respectively. Although it’d look analog I planned to use a microcontroller to do the heavy lifting.
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I built another clock recently. This time I decided to go with an orrery that uses a laser pointer to track the location of the sun in three dimensions. The idea is that if the clock knows three things (time, location, and north) it can figure out where the sun should be and point a [...]
