
In the longer term, it'll make it easier to read the gas meter. That's in the farthest recess of the cabinets right in that corner, and every month I have to get on my knees, turn on the camera app on my phone, and reach as far as I can trying to get it lined up with the dial while it takes a picture. This then usually needs to be enhanced in various ways as it's too dark back there, but not quite dark enough to trigger the flash

I have seriously considered manufacturing a small periscope, as I can remember the instructions on how to do so in The Eagle Book of Things a Boy Can Do (or some similar title; it was definitely an Eagle tie-in) which my brother received one Christmas in, probably, the late 1960s and later handed down to me. I suspect I attempted more of the projects in there than he ever did, as he's never really been much of a tinkerer

But this thing solves that problem now

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