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		kfarr 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into ... What a great idea. Legacy VCR controls upcycled for digital control! There's a lot of those old decks and LANC deck controllers lying around...

timonoko 4 days ago [–]

This is a hard problem. Solvable only with try and error.

Those signals are just weird mess of coils, switches and resistors.

ESP32 clock speed may also be a contributing factor.

timonoko 3 days ago | [–]

I asked Gemini to make sensible & readable version: https://github.com/timonoko/Jogwheel/blob/main/jogwheel_gem....

But did not improve much, except variable names are now less esoteric.

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