No, but I have done and said stuff that gives me an intense feeling of embarrassment when I recall the event.
I built a solar tracking system with light sensors for a solar cooker. It worked beautifully on a cloudless day but sometimes got confused when there were some clouds. Some weeks later I realized that my glorious invention was trying to find something we know the position of at any time during the day. Considering the time and money spent and how smart I had felt for building that monstrosity made me feel very dumb afterwards.
A non-optical sensor based solution would require other sensors to calculate the relative position of the solar cooker oriented to Earth as well as calculate the elevation. Your solution is turnkey that you just slap down and it does everything needed without external input beyond solar radiance.
Also, a whole bunch of your approach has many other applications with only very minor tweaks. I like what you did.
Not that I recall, but I feel you have a story you’re not telling us?
I’ve forgotten how to spell “of” before because I couldn’t sound it out. Not my proudest moment.
Uv. Obviously.
For a moment I thought a motion-activated sink garbage disposal would be convenient so I wouldn’t have wet hands flipping the switch and dripping all over the counter.
Heh.
Honestly, this isn’t a horrible idea. If the motion sensor is in a different location than the actual disposal, Like a motion sensor under a black panel instead of the light switch to remove the electrical hazard chance
