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Months after publication, the post was submitted to Hacker News, climbing to a score of 310 with 70 comments and appearing on the site's front-page RSS feed.
“Can you help keep Portobello on time? Action Porty has recently bought the Police Station for the community, but we can't work out how to change the time on the clock tower!”
Author's friend, Message to blog author · hn ↗Blog author (pointinthecloud.com) Volunteer and blog authorAction Porty Community organisation, building ownerAuthor's friend Contact who initiated the clock-fixing visit
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> The "Status" LED flashes some kind of code - long long, short short short. I assumed the number of flashes would correspond to the time but apparently not. We didn't have time to figure this out before we had to leave.long-long-short-short-short is 7 in morse code. They don't say what time they tried this or if it ever changed, though, so that's…
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How fun! Once, after climbing around in a dusty old church attic like this, I had to head straight to the airport for a flight. Barely made it on because something in the dust kept flagging as dangerous. They were using a test strip on my backpack and clothing and analyzing it in some kind of machine. Stressful as I was already pressed for time!…
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The battery on that circuit looks very much like a backup battery we have connected to our house alarm.We moved in to the house in 2003 and that battery died this year, so I would imagine that it is already or will very soon die. That said, if it's a backup battery and the electricity supply is stable then it may not make any difference.
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