On Saturday, I finally soldered this together. I was pretty eel happy with the quality of soldering I managed to do, which is to say the alarm works. I haven’t started to check it’s time keeping drift, bit I’m guessing it’s somewhere between good and poor. As it is, it probably won’t become my daily alarm. I’ll probably use it for something else.
Seeing as how it has these nice pads already to patch to for redoing is program, the sky is the limit. If I remove the speaker, and replace that with a transistor or relay, I could probably use that for turning on our off pumps once I get all aquaponic. I’m thinking of container alternatives seeing as how fish tanks are expensive. I could invert Jack Daniels bottles and cut the top of maybe? Slaving of bottles, depending where about the Wif and I are this evening, I might get to working on the BeerLite. Admittedly it will be a very brown light, but that’s what experimentation is for. I just want to make sure I carefully dip the LEDs in before I go to town and wire a sixer or something. I have caps at Los Parientes, and so will just need to figure out which ask bottles I have that are screw top (screw tops are balls for recapping I read somewhere). Ideally, I would embed a chunk of perfboard in each cap, with individual resistors. I think the final goal would be that at the controller end would be a constant current thingy, and a daisy chain of cables going from one bottle to the next. Adding in some addressing function would be dope as well. Maybe I should just look at addressable LEDs.
Peter's stuff.