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Pinewood Derby Timer

January 2, 2020

Building a Pinewood Derby Timer: Finishing the arch and adding the last of the wiring!

Well, I finally finished it! The pinewood derby timer is done. Check it out! First, I had to finish the wiring for the lights and the sensors, and then I […]

December 31, 2019

Building a Pinewood Derby Timer: Wiring in the displays

Now that I have the displays mounted on the pinewood derby timer, it was time to wire them in. I still don’t have lights or sensors in yet, but I […]

December 26, 2019

Building a Pinewood Derby Timer: 3D printing some display covers

Well, I decided to print a few display covers to go around the LED displays. This covers up the unsightly hole that I cut from the box, and seems to […]

December 24, 2019

Building a Pinewood Derby Timer: The Box for the “Arch”

As I have been constructing this Pinewood Derby Timer, I needed some sort of box or enclosure to make the top of the arch. So I took apart a junk […]

December 19, 2019

Building a Pinewood Derby Timer: Setting up the LED displays

So one of the driving components (pun intended) of the derby timer is the LED displays. I went with the smaller ones from Adafruit, as we wouldn’t need a second […]

December 17, 2019

Building a Pinewood Derby Timer: Getting the schematics and parts list…

A local church group that I attend needed some help with an Awana project. They use a pinewood derby track for racing cars, and they needed a timer built for […]

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