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Here is example of time switch with solar dial [1][2]. Big Clive explains its internals a bit. The dial seems to be made for specyfic latitude as cams are set a
by tau255 9y ago
Here is example of time switch with solar dial [1][2]. Big Clive explains its internals a bit. The dial seems to be made for specyfic latitude as cams are set and only input is day of the year.
I think that it can be made to use latitude input with some more complex set of cams and user setable input.
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i_vfsuCpJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i_vfsuCpJY
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_dial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_dial
- userbinator 9y agoI thought of that video too. Before electronics, mechanically calculating the movement of celestial objects was pretty common, and goes back a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism