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Raided an old 70s Pioneer cassette deck for parts. Incredible construction quality - all discreet components, single LEDs mounted on individual circuit boards with wirewrap connections, huge thick pins, big globs of solder.

All that work all those years ago, reduced to this... It's the tape counter connected to a broken Turnigy TG9 servo 'converted' to 360 degree rotation, triggered by the Arduino.

Now I need a project that would benefit from a way to inaccurately count up to 999. While making a racket.

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  • Julian Burgess 3 months ago
    Superb. I expect you to be a professor in Arduino upon your return
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  • Someone Else 3 months ago
    Use a servo with normal rotation feedback, or even a stepper, and a gear setup so it only catches one way. To add one, rotate x degrees, back x degrees. How about a live website view counter? I would love to do that... This made me stunningly happy... Perhaps it's the great mechanical feel of that thing?
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  • Luke Marvin 3 months ago
    If only each drum (I'm not sure what to call each thing-of-numbers) could be spun individually. (From what I can tell they don't.) You could make a neat little clock.

    Good work, good eye. Makes me want to go home and look at my parents old stuff gathering dust.

    L.M.
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