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 +====== Blinker ======
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 +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.
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 +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.
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 +[[projects:blinker:work_logs:1_beginnings|Work log: The Beginnings]]
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