Travel Bug Dog Tag Blue Blinky Bug #2

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Released:
Friday, September 9, 2005
Origin:
New Hampshire, United States
Recently Spotted:
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Current Goal

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

About This Item

Solar Powered Altoids Tin


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.


User Operation:
  • 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.

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Tracking History (5509mi) View Map

Dropped Off 3/8/2007 Lisatx1966 placed it in 23 Kazoo Texas - 208.8 miles  Visit Log
Discovered It 2/13/2007 catweb79 discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered it from Lisa,TX,cool blinking TB.
Discovered It 2/8/2007 Reese_Texas discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered this TB while in the possession of Lisatx.
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/1/2007 Lisatx1966 retrieved it from I-45 Travel Bug Hotel Texas   Visit Log

picked up tonight and will move it on its way.
Dropped Off 1/10/2007 Boxer Pups placed it in I-45 Travel Bug Hotel Texas - 166.64 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/1/2007 Boxer Pups retrieved it from Redwater City Park Cache Texas   Visit Log

Great Travel Bug, we picked it up from the Redwater City Park and will take it with us to San Antonio, TX and warmer weather...........We will find a good cache for a drop off.

The battery is still holding a good charge. Still blinks and chirps like crazy.....
Dropped Off 11/2/2006 MrNezzer placed it in Redwater City Park Cache Texas - 1,387.13 miles  Visit Log

Blinky is back on the road.

Retrieve It from a Cache 9/30/2006 MrNezzer retrieved it from Old Highway 67 TB Exchange Arkansas   Visit Log

Blinky was clicking very sadly when found. After a few minutes in the sun he started blinking and clicking.
Dropped Off 9/4/2006 hummer dude placed it in Old Highway 67 TB Exchange Arkansas - 294.72 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/28/2006 hummer dude retrieved it from The Hole in the Tree Texas   Visit Log

What a great TB We will take it on a trip and place it someplace neat. The blue light is doing just fine.
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