I saw a lovely German Art Deco barometer on eBay. Unfortunately the mechanism was kaput. Long story short it now has a microprocessor controlling it and I’ve created a tapping-based interface for calibrating the stepper motor 😂 #arduino #maker pic.twitter.com/yOW58Q5Ue6
@BeardyHowse I feel like we might be at Peak Bin, in between the old days of everything going to landfill and the bright future of everything going in one bag to the recycling centre to be robotically broken down automatically into the most recyclable components.
@WhosTheSuit @Seej500 It’s also normally an old-fashioned flat-toothed gear rather than the quieter helical ones used for forward gears, which is why it has that distinctive whining noise!