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I have been working on an LED rainbow project for M. It’s really coming along and I also managed to get an RTC module soldered on to the board tonight. Everything was going well until the sketch upload to the Trinket failed. Apparently Adafruit Trinket has this issue where it’s easy to override the bootloader by mistake. I think it happened because I was using 99% of progmem. Solution is easy, you just hook up the Trinket to another Arduino and use a little sketch to burn a fresh bootloader. Problem was: Trinket was already soldered on the prototype board! ...

I could watch this thing tick all day. Weirdly satisfying!

Flipclock prototype is working well. Had to modify the front panel design and reprint, but now it’s moving smoothly. Next step is assembling the embossed digits and minute motors. Flipclock digits are assembled! They are looking clean and beautiful. I will be assembling the full device tomorrow evening and hopefully have it functional. ...

This weekend’s project: Building an old school flip clock from scratch. I based the prototype on this awesome project, but ended up redesigning the number cards. New versions are looking great with the embossed digits.