Pates de fruits

IMG_3488This was first posted on 20th September 2015.

 

I have made a few over the years and more recently have shared with some friends the current recipe so below is slightly updated process etc…they are still super nice!

It is very easy to do and a classic of a recipe that our Grandmas would have been making all the time and we just forgot how to do it…because of supermarket stuff.

 

It is also a bit “Zen”, like caramel making because you need to stay close to your hot pan and keep stirring until the right temperature is reached.

A bit like caramel, you definitely need a Thermometer to keep track of the temperature of the mixture in the pan. I am sure that our grandmothers were capable of knowing the right time of cooking but for me, it is just easier.

The trick is to heat up the mixture until it reaches 107 degrees celsius. This is the temperature at which the sugar and the pectin change structure and become the jelly-like sweets. If you leave the temperature to go higher, you will get something closer to candies.

I like to make small pieces with sugar on them so that they don’t stick to each other. Other people like to coat them with granulated sugar.

The very best is to use a little bit of citric acid and mix it with some granulated sugar, then blitz this in a coffee grinder or blender. You get something like icing sugar which has a bit of a sour taste which most people love on their sweets.

My prefered is to simply have them naked, it is a bit sticky but who cares! Simply lick your fingers afterwards…

Ingredients:

  • 300g of Fruits (I am using Raspberries in the pictures)
  • 300g of Sugar. (yes 50/50 is ok)
  • 20g of Pectin (without this forget it). I got mine here. But Amazon has plenty as well.
  • for the coating: 1 tablespoon of citric acid for 7 to 10 tablespoons of granulated sugar.

Preparation:

  • Blend the fruits very fine. I use the Vitamix or the  Bamix for that with the chopping attachment on full speed. Ideally, to take the Raspberry seeds out, you can filter through a fine mesh but you probably lose a bit of the goodness that is in the seeds. I prefer to blend the fruits a bit longer and crush the seeds to keep as many vitamins and goodness in the end product. The Vitamix is the best for that. Full blast for 45 seconds and the seeds will get blended within the mixture.
  • Mix the sugar and pectin together
  • Put everything in a pan, and stir over strong heat.
  • Stir again and again until you get to 107 degrees, it will take forever….until you get something fairly sticky in the pan. It will bubble up and boil. check the temperature regularly.
  • Once the 107 degrees has been reached, pour the mixture on a tray with cling film or even better a sheet of silicone. Try to make a rectangle that has a thickness of about 1.5cm. The mixture should be thick enough so that this is an easy step.
  • Let it cool down, this will probably take a good hour or more.
  • Make the coating mixture with the citric acid and the sugar. Simply blend a bit of citric acid with a fair amount of sugar. Taste to check how “sour” you want it to be. You can have then fairly sour because the overall “Pate de Fruits” is very sweet anyway.
  • Slice little cubes or rectangles of the size of your choice, then put into a Ziplock plastic bag or simply in a bowl. Pour the powdered sugar on the candies to coat them with a fine dust that will prevent them to stick to each other.

You can keep these sweets for a long time in a box but you will struggle to not eat them! After a few days, they become just a little bit gummier that’s all.

Although the recipe has a lot of sugar in it, like Jam, it is a good way of getting fruits and vitamins inside our kids … they love it.

I make some with Strawberries, Apples etc….it think that most fruits would work and you can also make blends of Apples and Blueberries or anything you fancy! It is also very nice to add a little bit of Lime juice to the fruit mixture.

Actually decided to make a list of fruits to try :

Raspberries, Strawberries, Blueberries, Apricot, Blood Orange, Lemon+Apple, Red currant, Kiwi, Mango, Melon, Pear, Cherries, Peaches….

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Black Lives matter

As I was playing with the coding of some generative art things on my computer, I was influenced to make a design which connected with the overall sentiment of revolt and rage following the protests of Black Lives Matter. This small code is supposed to represent people walking some of them upset or worried, initially, it might make you feel angry but then the slow random cycling makes it soothing.

 

Here is the link to the animated code

BlackAlive

This is even more meaningful to me as I recently travelled to the mixed wedding of my goddaughter. The wedding was an amazing celebration of love and friendship and further proof that not a difference of colour or a world pandemic can stop people to be together if it is what they wish.

As I mingled amongst the guests, I met an absolute moron that was under the influence of too many Champagne glasses. As rage and hate were building in me I used the inspiration that the newly wedded were showing to the world to simply move on and stay away from his vomit.

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Creme Brulee

Need to make some of these with the recipe from my mum.

 

 

 

 

Ingredients :

  • 3 Egg Yokes
  • 100ml of Full fat milk
  • 250ml of single cream
  • 50g of Sugar
  • 1 pack of Vanilla Sugar
  • 1 Zest of lemon
  • Some brown sugar for the top crust

How to make :

  • Mix all ingredient and put into 3 small ramekins
  • Put into oven at 120 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes

That’s it !

 

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Garde Manger

I made this “Garde-manger” to keep my Copa Corona and all the future dry-aged hams and duck and other things that need maturing away from the insects…

It probably translates loosely to the pantry.

I will also be used for cheeses that I plan to make in the future.

It has stainless steel mesh, aluminium lock, and hanging bars at the top of the box.

It is made out of Cedar which will never rot and has a smell that keeps insects away through its natural oils.

 

It will also be a physical reminder of the confinement for a long time to come, the way I have built it…it will also be part of my kid’s inheritance…..slightly over-engineered…

I might equip it with a webcam to take daily pictures and keep an eye on the ageing process…

 

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Generative Art

This is my first Generative Art design on using the white polypropylene I used for the NHS Shields. (I am using wastage).

It is called “Mummy and Daughter”.

I have always been interested in Generative Art, my latest project on the Zen sand frame is another reminder that I like modern designs and technology blended together. I have been following (on and off) “Inconvergent” as I like his approach and the fact that he published his work on github as well. I also like matt pearson book, Generative Art which gives practical algorithms and code examples to some very nice art.  I also like organic and repeating patterns often with subtle changes that fool the eyes of most people. Some particular pattern becomes invisible to most and only the creator knows that there is either imperfections or on-purpose changes.

Although it is possible to design these patterns with hand tools, or even with the illustration software in a very repetitive fashion, I am more interested in creating the design by coding the underlying algorithm required to get to the final product. Recently because I have improved my Python skills, I feel like I am getting closer to programming more Generative Art things. The Sand Zen project might help me learn some new skills. In the meantime, I would like to reproduce more of the art below using my laser cutter and the wasted polypropylene purchased for the NHS shields.

 

Here is an example of something I am working on at the moment to replace the virus simulator with a rotating set of Generative Art. This one is inspired by the sea and surfing.

 

 

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Helping a bit the NHS…update

Over the last few weeks, I got myself involved in trying to help the NHS to cope with the Corona Virus outbreak. It feels a bit more practical than just the clapping on Thursdays. There is nothing more satisfying than a few smiles and a picture of your stuff being used on the front lines.

It all started with a plea from the NHS staff that protective equipment was not available. It started with shields then gowns. Now, straps for the masks.

During the week preceding the Easter bank holiday, a group of people with 3D printers started to get themselves organised to help out. I joined the group and started printing.

So SLOW>>>>>> !!!!! The design was “decided” by the group and everybody started printing the same thing. With many forums of people asking many questions about how to print, best settings, where to source the filaments etc…. the creativity of people and generosity was amazing. I saw some people buying 10 to 20 cheap printers to produce 3D printed shields as a mini-factory in their living room. Printing one shield takes about 2h 45 minutes….for most home printers…

Although I was printing for the “BIG PRINT”, and delivered about 25 shields, I also explored using the laser-cutter with the knowledge that the production could be massively improved. The 3D shields require filament, transparent plastic and some buttonhole elastic band….all of which have become very scarce and expensive on amazon within days…

The worse of people is also visible in those times of stress. With some people trying to sell materials at 10X the normal prices…I find this disgusting. I would consider myself a seasoned businessman who had to make difficult decisions to drive profit. In a normal environment, if somebody can get away with pricing ridiculous levels simply because of supply-demand dynamics I fully understand and would admire the business modelling.

However, I also think that ethics trump everything else in life. It is one of the reasons I could not stay at Xerox anymore. And as such, I find despicable the behaviour of some people profiteering from the misery of others. It is so easy to forget that “lives” are actually at risk…you are just selling some plastic on the internet…luckily in my experience, there is always more strength and personal conviction and drive and energy and compassion in the people that have the ethical and moral standards than the weak slime that will always live in the dark. “Karma” always finds a way to keep the good stuff on the winning side.

Back to laser cutting, I started a small production shop in my garage, making jigs to punch holes in the transparent plastic, coding the X-Cave CNC machine to cut round edges on the shields, sourcing materials in the wrong sizes to avoid the silly prices… I have now managed to get the production to about 50 shields for a day of hard work. Unfortunately, I have quickly run out of transparent plastic having made about 150. Still, as I connect with friends we find unlikely sources of materials or odd shapes and use our creativity to get things moving.

Recently we have engaged with a larger laser cutting company who had to furlough staff and would prefer offering real work to their employees. We have found that it is possible to get people back into work, produce useful products for the NHS and make some good for the front line staff.

 

I designed a 3D strap for a “Cambridge challenge” which ended up being a scam from somebody trying to profiteer from an “open” group of people ready to share their ideas openly etc…although I was initially disappointed for being fouled, I now have a design to give to the laser cutting company and get them to produce them in larger quantities. Amazingly these things sell on the internet at “normal” price for £0.40 apiece, but currently are being sold for £1.85 !!!!. My design is 50 pieces for a sheet of 600X400mm, my material cost is “between 50 and 100 times less than that…”

Within days, a few people went from chatting online to prototyping, to small batch production in garages and sheds, to now full-blown mass production with small businesses

Getting to work on this project allowed me to learn a few new skills in programming, design, organisation, etc… it is making confinement a little bit more bearable. It also gave me the boost to install the internet in my garage….something I wanted to do for years but simply could never find the energy to run cables through walls and garden. (2 days work by the way).

It is nice to feel that my garage/shed/man-cave who has always been a bit of an eccentric playground has found meaning in a time of crisis. Although the coronavirus has created a big problem for my hopes in finding a new job and making a fresh start in life in general,  I always finish the day with a beer thinking how lucky I am on balance and continue to marvel how so few people can make such a big difference.

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Corona Virus links

The first post of this was done on the 17th of March 2020.

Just keeping track of Total cases and deaths for 3 countries of my interest today.

 

Update 20th August 2020 :

Just back from a holiday in France…going through my 3rd testing for Covid…to protect family and friends and reassure ourselves that we are not sick. Feeling ok but clearly second wave is in progress for European countries.

Still using my Colab code to access the latest data. [here] 

Update 19th July 2020 :

How can anybody say that the UK is out of the crisis !….still 80 to 100 people die daily …I can’t see the flat part of the curve…

 

 

 

Update April 2020:

I still find the media and the countries governments very poor at providing useful information to the general population. I also continue to struggle to understand the true impact of this virus on our overall deaths levels in the UK.

I remember the BBC posting an idiotic  “we have reached 100 death per day” when all scientists were explaining that we were on track to get to 1000 deaths a day. The media was not helping in preparing the population to understand the scale of the problem.

Having said the above, I still do not understand how much more deaths per day did the virus bring to us in comparison to all other diseases we have had in the past. I need to research this.

After many updates and searching the internet for the right data, I have decided to build my own tracker using the source data. I used python and google COLAB.

The code in the link will access the source data and make some graphs out of it.

I coded the notebook to plot the countries of my interest.

We are currently being told that we might have reached a peak…with 400 people dying daily in the UK I find this obscene.

 

 

 

Status 27th of March 2020:

Getting annoyed by the media system that they are not preparing the population in the UK for what is about to come. We had headlined on BBC website on the 26th saying that we had passed the 100 people dead in a single day. With nothing explaining what to expect in the coming weeks. If we are anything like other European countries we should brace for circa 1000 people dying per day…today 27th…184 dead in the day…no headlines from BBC…maybe they are starting to get it….

 

 

 

A few interesting links :

World number of cases, the best link in my opinion: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The FT Graphics : here

 

The source Data:

https://qap.ecdc.europa.eu/public/extensions/COVID-19/COVID-19.html

A live panel of Data

https://covid19.dsplay.tv?countries=United%20Kingdom%2CFrance%2CSpain%2CBelgium&duration=5

UNited Kingdom Gov Stats : https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c90da5b4e9f9a0b19484dd4bb14

BBC Cases in your area: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

Nice Graphics to explain contagion: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/?fbclid=IwAR1axXapFPLQJbWX1LDgBo9zIMaPs_rdgLvcugvniGdoog17AQNNKe4Sze8

Beds Available:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/critical-care-capacity/critical-care-bed-capacity-and-urgent-operations-cancelled-2019-20-data/

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Changing subject

A quick post to move away from Virus stuff…

As I have been making a few biscuits/waffles calling for either levure chimique or baking powder of Baking soda. I have tried to understand the differences.

Levure Chimique and Baking Powder are very similar, they will produce CO2 in your pastry/dough as long as you simply add a liquid. The base and the acid are already present in their dry form.

The levure chimique has wheat flour and baking powder has maize flour. The levure chimique is supposed to be more performing at the same weight.

A packet of levure chimique is about 11g or 2 teaspoons, sufficient for around 500g of flour.

The baking powder should be scaled up by about 40%. So about 15g for 500g.

The Baking Soda (or Sodium bicarbonate) is only a base (high PH) agent for which your recipe needs to have an acid to react with to create the CO2. This could be lemon juice or yoghurt. 3 Tablespoons of baking soda in 500ml of water will make water with a PH of about 9.5…. (Lye or Lessive de Soude is usually PH14). Baking soda is useful for heartburn as it will lower Gastric Acids. (1/2 teaspoon in one glass of water). Baking Soda is also helpful to absorb odours in the fridge or to make a scented jar with essential oils.

Note: Baking soda can be used to clean drains or degrease kitchen ustensils because of the high PH but is not as efficient as Caustic Soda or Crystal Soda (the green bags stuff) is further up the PH scale at approx 11.5. The best being “Lye” or Lessive de Soude which is up in PH14.

 

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Helping NHS – Staying home

After a couple of frustrating days trying to get my 3D printer to work as it is supposed to, I managed to get my first Face Shield made using a Czech design for a crowd of 3D printing enthusiast helping the NHS with a lack of protective equipment.

The crowd is printing the 3D frames and a charity is assembling, cleaning, distributing for us.

Only 30 hours to go before I can send my first batch.

 

 

Update: There is now 5500+ people producing parts like me…and friends on Facebook have reached for help etc…really cool. Also purchased some polypropylene for laser cutting a different shield. If it works, the production will be up to a hundred a day rather than the 5-7, I can do now.

As of Monday 13th. : 20 Shields complete. just run out of orange PETG

 

I use a type of plastic called PETG which is food safe and easy to clean even if the shields are expected to be only single-use shields. To print reliably with my setup requires 2H and 49 minutes of printing for the top part and about 30 minutes for 2 bottom parts. I am still challenging the group for the need for the bottom part full stop. The design might change over the coming weeks.

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Cedar Gas Bottle

I am going nutz with this confinement thing….did this today…it is on wheels so can move easily around. The top is like a hat to have easy access to the bottle. It is also open on the back to slip the bottle into it without having to lift it very high. It is made with cedar wood which is nice to work and soft. Also smells nice when cutting which I had lots to do…

 

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New Project

Need a new project….thinking of doing something like this…It is a small stainless steel ball which appears to roll magically over sand and leaving nice patterns in the sand like to some Japanese Zen garden techniques. It is like a frame with a concealed robotic arm to drive a magnet moving the ball from below the sand.Japanese Sand Gardens - www.japaneseflowergardens.weebly.com

Will document over the next few weeks how I am progressing and what I am doing. Given it is computer controlled, I envisage to place a stone in the sand as well and make sure the ball can avoid it.

I obviously, there is a fair amount of internet browsing.

 

been doing some research and found this

https://www.geogebra.org/

and this

https://www.geogebra.org/m/uxc2G78E

need to start with some design in Fusion 360….

More research :

 

 

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Virus Simulator

With the home confinement imposed by the epidemic of the COVID-19 virus, I have been doing many projects that I had on hold for long. But also started new ones…

I saw a nice explanation of the impact of containment on the spread of the virus through the population and the potential impact on the health services and the level of mortality etc…

I thought that I could make some sort of display frame and build a simulator.

 

 

It is an electronics build but the actual coding of the simulator has been more of a challenge. In particular, creating a model that is simple enough so that the display is fluid and give an impression of true virus spreading etc…

This is interesting: try

The current system creates a random population of people (pixels) scattered across the 4 panels of 64 by 64 leds. The system picks randomly a level of containment (or none), and a level of agitation of the people moving across the display. These are blue pixels.

The computer creates an initial load of viruses across the population randomly. Between 5 and 10.

If the people with the virus get in contact with a pixel that is not sick, then there is contagion and the new person can infect others.

There is a lifetime for the disease and a mortality rate. If a person survives the virus, they are then immune but only for a certain amount of time. This creates waves of disease spreading across the screen.

At the top of the display, there is a graph that shows the number of people sick in the population. This clearly shows the curve of the evolution of the disease. Sometimes the peak is very sharp and sometimes the peak is only a small bump.

The system tracks the time it takes for all the sick people to either die or recover. Once there are no sick people anymore, the system re-starts a new simulation with new parameters picked randomly within boundaries.

The system also tracks the parameters that result in the longest disease time, the shortest disease time, the hight death ratio and the lowest death ratio.

In general, it takes between 1 to 6 minutes to run a single simulation. This one is about 3 minutes.

So far I have been able to observe that the longest disease is when there is a high level of containment. It also reduces the level of mortality but not as much as I expected. I tend to spread the disease over a longer time period.

As per the above, the shortest simulation was 31 seconds with a starting population of 1600, an initial virus load of 12 viruses, as disease life of 45 cycles and an immunity life of 70 cycles, with no containment at all. This resulted in a 54% death rate.

Clearly this is not a scientific experiment but just a toy display. I am very please with the simulation effect which gives a good sense of a disease spreading through a population.

It is made with a Raspberry Pi running a version of Linux. It is programmed in Python.

 

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End of Week 1- Coppa Corona

Time for me to check on my Corona-Coppa… started this a week and a half ago. It is a piece of pork shoulder which I have started to cure about 10days ago.

I salted the meat with Kosher salt for 1 day and 1 night in the fridge. I then washed thoroughly and dried it very well.

 

Then I took some black pepper and blitz to a coarse crush. Covered the meat on all sides and simply left in the open air within the fridge.

I am checking on the meat regularly and turning it from one side to the other to ensure that the moisture is not accumulating anywhere. It is important for the meat to stay dry to prevent any bad bacteria or mould to start growing on the meat.

So far so good.

I can allow myself a glass of red to get me waiting …..

 

I need to wait until the meat is 65% of whatever it was when I started…which could be 8 weeks…

I wish I had measured it at the start….

oh well….

will simply have to wait until I cannot resist the urge to tasting it…

 

 

I am also ready for a weekend treat with a nice milky-bread bun. It is a recipe from one of my nieces (Benedicte) with who I exchange recipes regularly!

Will document this recipe properly very soon…

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Same Place different soul

Since we are now on confinement and only allowed to go out alone and for essential reasons, I cannot go out on a ride with the motorbike beast.

So I converted my authorised sports activity to be a cycling ride to the same location but this time I was accompanied by Philippe who also passed away last year in February. He was a keen cyclist and the weather made us both happy this morning.

30KM cycling even with the electric bike is still a good exercise for the body and the soul.

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Oli-Cookies

In a continuation of the survival to virus series….here is an essential recipe for keeping the moral on a high.

It is an international recipe with Belgian Sugar, French  Butter and Pralin, Swiss Chocolate, English eggs, Canadian Flour…probably could stretch the baking powder to be Irish.

Expect sugar rush and nice smell in the house.

Undercook for chewiness. (15 minutes)

Crispy cook. (20 minutes)

 

Ingredients :

  • 150g of Butter (softened)
  • 150g Cassonade or light brown sugar. (beetroot based if possible)
  • 100g Caster sugar
  • 2 sachet of vanilla sugar or a 1.5 teaspoon of vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 240g of plain flour
  • 1 sachet of levure Chimique or 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 1 Tablet of dark chocolate 100g (with Salt) or add salt to the recipe
  • 100g of “Pralin”. ( hazelnut sugar-coated — see pictures)

How to Make:

  • Mix butter and all sugars with a mixer. Medium speed to get a soft, lightly coloured mixture.
  • Add the egg and mix again.
  • Add the flour and mix to a soft dough. (probably manually)
  • Break the chocolate in small pieces and add to the mixture with the Praline.
  • Roll the dough into a long sausage shape
  • Cut pieces to make cookies and put on a silicone sheet or baking tray.
  • Put into oven for 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees celsius. (Enjoy the smell in the house, think about your childhood etc….)
  • Cool down on a rack….eat with ice cream, and-or coffee.

 

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Just before confinement…

It is a bit more than a year that Guy left us. So much has happened since and the recent events are putting a lot of things in perspective.

Decided to take Guy on a motorbike ride with me today. He loved his motorbike and I know he was looking after me as I was getting back on the wild animal…with a 1.2L engine, 4 parallel carburettors, a V-Boost compressor, a shat-drive, 145 Horsepower, a loud puffing noise…

On many occasions, I have considered selling it. My brain says, I only do a few miles per year and it is costing me taxes, MOT and insurance, it is dangerous. My heart says… NEVER…. love it too much. The thrill and adrenaline always put a smile on my face. It reminds me of good times and brings them to the present.

As I come back home the prime minister just announced the full lockdown of the UK for the foreseeable future…I am glad I followed my instinct to do it “now” and not tomorrow.

Life is too short to wait for the right time just do it now.

 

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Stay Calm

 

Staying home does not feel like fighting an enemy or being brave as the invisible threat invades our hospitals.

Made this small incent burner from Japanese inspiration, trying to find the much needed inner calm that we all want at the moment.

It is a great time to reflect on what is important in life, how hard it is for others that we tend to forget in our rushed city lives. A few months of rationing will never compare to a lifetime of struggle to find food or fight wars and diseases.

 

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Survival skills #1 – Bread Making

A family fun thing, I was challenged by a brother in law to explain my bread recipe in a short video…

Here you go: Video link

 

Good health to all.

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Word Clock

Yes, that is right, not a world clock, a word clock.

It tells the time in English…

Made it all from scratch using online inspiration, in particular, the faceplate.

 

 

I saw this first online a long time ago and then at Selfridges more recently, it reminded me that I must build one for myself. Various versions of this are sold for an enormous amount of money (£1000-£2000), there is much satisfaction in building one yourself.

The code is a copy and pastes from a version I found online. The box is made from scratch using Fusion360 and my laser cutter. I made 4 different iterations before getting to the right dimensions and hole alignment etc…this is the latest. Not 100% perfect but nobody will notice except me. Will do one last version…it is my OCD.

It is made of a Trinket 5V controlling a matrix of NeoPixels and the time is kept accurate using a Real-time Clock communicating to the Trinket using I2C protocol. The time is kept in memory in case of power cut through a small button battery.

As usual, it took me forever to get this project done…I bought the part almost a year ago exactly!

When I started this blog in 2012, I already had some interest for “time” in general. (As per the tag line ) Why do some people manage to do more things than me with the same amount of time as me? How can somebody become a president within 50 years and others struggle to do their tax returns on-time?

Why is there no “pause button” (that would be super cool) for time? [some science why]

When I was still working, I used to tell my team:
“Enjoy today like if it was the good old days……. because it is!”

Recently, I feel that time is taking me through life quicker than I would want it to. Seeing time as words rather than a running set of numbers or a needle counting seconds gives me a bit more peace to enjoy “now” as a dear friend used to tell me.

 

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Just another Friday !

Friday

 

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