Wednesday What Is It?
MikeDYur
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Looks like a highly technical device for a simple operation.
Designed to wind something.
Two motors and four LEDs.
Switch input, microcontroller control over gear/belt motor output, with some LED bling.
Trays are three and a half inches in diameter by one inch deep.
With a spring loaded spool holders that are not identicle.
I have no AC adapter, will power it up this evening.
Designed to wind something.
Two motors and four LEDs.
Switch input, microcontroller control over gear/belt motor output, with some LED bling.
Trays are three and a half inches in diameter by one inch deep.
With a spring loaded spool holders that are not identicle.
I have no AC adapter, will power it up this evening.
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Comments
Automatic watch winder for "kinetic" watches.
So much for "self-winding watches". Funny how that monstrosity basically replaces two small watch batteries. How many more times power is consumed motorizing that thing than 2 batteries can deliver over a year?
It would be cooler if they rotated at 1 RPM like a sweep second hand. With lots of LEDs. And feedback sensors for full PID control. Needs to balance on 2 wheels like a Segway. And be a humidor for cigars.
Invented by a consortium of the clueless to provide clocks to the third world.
I was thinking the same thing about self-winding watches and needing a machine to wind them. Oxymoronic to a point. But I guess if it's a "stylish", dress watch not worn often, it might make sense since it seems the unit can be programmed to wind periodically.
A good old self-winding watch is a great example of "energy harvesting" decades before the term was coined.
Some people are just so lazy and sedentary it's hopeless.
I get the same feeling of gross expense, inefficiency and pointlessness over the current trend to wireless phone chargers.
-Phil
I had a self winding watch, I wore it, it wound itself, we got along very well. I've never been in a position where I needed to own several watches. One wrist, one watch, one time zone - it's all good!!
Now, wireless phone chargers are something I will defend. My last perfectly good phone had to be replaced because the charge port became damaged from repeated insertions. Having a phone that you plug in to charge but doesn't reliably charge is no fun.
Setting a phone on an $8 pad to charge makes sense to me.
(Shaken, not stirred.)
I got lazy and gave up my wrist watch when it's battery died. My phone always knows the time, right?
The phone should is set to get local time from whatever operator it connects too.
Except it does not. Or sometimes it does. Who knows. The time becomes a lottery. Which causes great confusion and stress if you need to know. It's amazing how hard it is to find out the time in an airport.
At first thought I wished I had a couple of those Hawaiian dolls with the grass skirts.
Sharper Image or Skymall?
Get one of those solar powered sun dials... they have Windows 10 installed.
I haven't used a wristwatch in years, I have the chemistry that drains battery power. I depend on cell phone network time, why not? It will be used against you.
Yeah Heater, there's an app for that.
http://www.timeanddate.com/android/worldclock.html
LOL, now you need an app to tell the oh so smart phone what time to tell you. Its like a watch winder for lazy people....
I never knew what an industry this was, there are some fancy self winding watches and winders out there, guess I never payed attention to what watch people are wearing.
Not sure if this applies, thought it was an interesting site.
@skylight, this thread has run its time, will sit back and unwind.