Assuming you’re not caught in a jail cell with out home windows, you might feasibly preserve monitor of the moon and tides by strolling exterior and jotting issues down in your pocket book. Alternatively, you might save a number of problem by simply constructing this moon and tide clock from [pjdines1994] as an alternative.
The construct relies on a Raspberry Pi Pico W, which is attached to a real-time clock module and a Waveshare 3.7-inch e-paper show. Upon this show, the clock attracts a picture related to the present part of the moon. Because the write-up notes, it was a tad fussy to retailer 24 photos for all of the completely different lunar phases throughout the Pi Pico, however it was achieved nonetheless with a contact of compression. As for tides, it covers these too by pulling in tide info from an internet useful resource.
It’s particularly set as much as report the native tides for [pjdines1994], reporting the excessive tide and low tide occasions for Whitstable in the UK. If you happen to’re not in Whitstable, you’d in all probability need to reconfigure the clock earlier than utilizing it your self. Until you actually need to know what’s up in Whitstable, after all. If you happen to so want, you may set the clock as much as make its personal tide predictions by working native calculations, however [pjdines1994] notes that that is slightly extra sophisticated to do. The completed end result look fairly good, as a result of [pjdines1994] determined to construct it inside an previous carriage clock that solely reveals elements of the show exhibiting the moon and the related tide numbers.
We’ve featured another nice tide clocks earlier than, like this grand 3D printed design. If you happen to’ve constructed your individual arcane machine to plot the dances of celestial objects, do you’ll want to tell us on the tipsline!
