As if i wasn’t busy enough….

But I have been wanting this for a while. Something to close the blinds at night and open them around 8am so I actually will wake up and get into work before noon. maybe. (i’m pretty light sensitive)

Current thoughts are taking one of the l298 boards, adding some code to keep a timer / set the current time, and just let it free run after that. (presumably would need to reset it after a while or when the power dies, I don’t see the need to add a RTC, although integrating a SPI one should not be too hard.

Might sketch this out. Main concern is where to get a long flex joint from the motor to the blind control stick thing, and the lack of any encoders or stop feedback. Was planning to just do it timer based for now since /some/ overrun on either end won’t break anything, otherwise would need to buy a stepper or encoders. In theory the l298 can drive steppers by running the 2 bridges out of phase.