drazak
Member
So, I've been thinking about this for awhile, all of the digital timers are so expensive, and to be honest, I don't know if I'd ever use all of the functions that an fstop timer has. However; my grablab and I are not very happy with eachother, the hands aren't easy to see in the dark, probably because I don't have enough safelights in my darkroom. So, with a couple potentiometers, an atmega chip, an lcd screen, a programmer, a breadboard, and a adc, wouldn't it be possible to build a fairly simple enlarger timer for cheap? The cost of all that, a couple 120 ends, and what not is still not anywhere near 100$ probably not even 50$, so why the expensive digital darkroom timers? Why couldn't some of us, who (if not wanting to go the breadboard way) know how to solder, make our own darkroom timers?