Isn’t serendipity a fine thing? I found these little tins for mini teddies today on one of my sally anne and mountain top climbing forays.
Mountain climbing forays you ask? Indeed! I’m thinking about doing a bunch of really big paintings of the old dead volcano cones of Auckland city… with a metaphorical twist, and today I climbed to the top of two discrete little rises that don’t even have proper names as such but happen to be in the middle of parks. The first one I can’t remember the name of but it right at the southern end of Dominoin Rd and right next to the new motorway and the other is the remaining King of the three kings and so called Kings reserve. On that one I bet a fellow I could climb the anti climbing stuff andd get on the top of the resrvior but he declined saying he didn’t want to see me fall and have to run down the hill to call the emergency services. So when he was out of site I climbed it anyways, even though he didn’t take up the bet I was going to make him for twenty bucks, but kinda scared myself when during the trickiest bit my arms went a bit jelly on me and it looked a long way down. I survived and made it to the top and was so rewarded with an absolutely magnificent view and when I looked over the side. There he was, down the path, waving up at me.
Aren’t those little tins just gorgeous? Bit girly I know but absolutly of the right design to put little circuits into with the minimum of fuss. I’ve never seen a match box style tin before and realised as soon as I saw them they were exactly what I needed. The circuit board and batteries can sit inside the box and have plugs on either end then the whole lot slides into the top and sides then the top can have a small hole in it to let the light shine on the LDR. Wonderful life isn’t it?, when everything you need appears jus after you’ve forgotten you needed it.
I think I’ll use this schematic and get the really big LDR’s from surplustronics… they have under the counter. I wonder why these people cal them cds photocells?