I’m so glad! If you like, early in my IT career I discovered the value of “early and often,” that is, expressing ideas often no matter how half-baked they may seem–don’t be afraid to express yourself.
The community will look and say, “that won’t work…that won’t work…but that will” and we take off from there.
Putting what is basically a kitchen timer between a PLC and the wax injection mold nozzle is nuts–but it’s just what’s needed to wax inject a large Pratt-Whitney jet engine mold for casting.
Last night/this morning I thought of “the commuter IF,” an wearable apparatus like the above except without the compass (say, “show compass” or tap a capacitance touch sensor to switch to nav mode having the compass display on the e-ink screen) and thinner with the e-ink display “lopping” over your wrist.
The physical form factor using the Orange Pi looks a little like this:
When you combine this with my book-based IF idea you get IF that you can play to pass the time on the subway.