Blue Blinky Bug #2

This bug is designed to travel and Blink. It would prefer to migrate South in the Winter to avoid the cold.

The Solar Powered Altoids Tin

PLEASE COMMENT ON THE BLINKING WHEN YOU LOG, like is it still blinking

More information including source code can be found in the Blue Blinky Bug Blog. More photos can be found in the Bug Gallery

Features and Behaviors:

• Solar powered for extended mission life.
• Rechargable internal lithium ion battery. Without actually testing or doing all the math I estimate that the bug can run dark for at least a month, perhaps more.
• Electrolytic capcaitor for backup operation. If the main battery pack dies it can be unplugged to allow light operation and a few minutes of dark operation.
• Light operation the bug blinks a blue LED about every 4 seconds and emit a double click.
• In dark operation it will blink about every 13 seconds and emit a single click
• Transitioning from light-to-dark it emits sad chirps.
• Transition from dark to light triggers happy chirps.

• Open the lid and examine it! Wait for the clicks and blink.
• Take it with you while in your care and try to keep it in the light (solar panel up) as much as possible to charge.
• Try to place it in safe and dry caches that have a lot of traffic. The bug doesn't like to hide for too long.
• The bug doesn't like extreme cold so it would prefer to migrate South for the Winter.
• Please mention in your up/down log entry the health of the battery. It is designed to run dark for several minutes even with no battery. I am interested if the battery is working when you first open the cache.