re: #601 Desert Dog

Pinewood Derby

In 1983 I built a timer system for our Cub Scout pack’s pinewood derby track.
It was based around the (my) Apple II computer, and had an accuracy of 0.01 seconds.

MANY years later, a Scoutmaster asked me to help with their track and timer system. He told me “some guy had built it about 15 years earlier, and it broke”. It turned out to be my system, and I gave him schematics and fixed it.

I should have taken out a patent.