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-This project is a follow-on to the [[projects:glass_sphere:overview|glass sphere project]]. I'm going to scale down my ambitions and start with a metal housing with a glass window.
+====== Blinker ======
+This is a project to create an electronic device that should continue to operate from solar power for a long time - hopefully a few hundred years.
+I stalled out on the [[projects:glass_sphere:overview|glass sphere project]]. It was too hard to make the glass nice, and get the surfaces wringably flat, and I had serious doubts about the strength of glass I was going to be able to produce.
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+Several years passed and I scaled back my ambitions. I decided I would make the enclosure out of metal, with a glass window for light to get in and hit the solar panel to provide energy for the system. Output would be via a single LED that would blink Morse coded messages. I think I'll be able to realistically carry this project through to completion.
+[[projects:blinker:work_logs:1_beginnings|Work log: The Beginnings]]
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