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A good while back Flo and I went for a date night at Telus Spark, during which I built the Useless Box.

Unfortunately it didn’t stay working for very long as a result of my shoddy soldering skills during the workshop, but I’m now the proud owner of my very own soldering iron, so this afternoon I fixed it!

As an aside, this thing runs at 3v: more or less the same voltage as the home-brew home automation devices I alluded to planning on my blog. Do I replace the simple circuit that runs this thing with a WiFi enabled micro-controller?