DIY kitchen timer with a vintage needle gauge and quasi-logarithmic display

Michal Zalewski, author of The Secret Life of Circuits, wasn't happy with store-bought wind-up kitchen timers. They weren't precise enough, and they only ring once. So he built his own, with a vintage needle gauge and a quasi-logarithmic display.

This is peak tinkerer energy: a problem most people would ignore, solved with electronics and a lovely retro dial. I'm just impressed and a little jealous.

Michal Zalewski, author of the book The Secret Life of Circuits, which I posted about recently, was dissatisfied with the wind-up kitchen timers he found in stores. They weren't precise enough for him, and he doesn't like that they only ring once. — Read the rest

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