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Word Clock Don’t Need No Stencil Font
Word clocks use natural language to display the time. They’ve been in vogue in the last 20 years or so, as low-cost digital technology makes them particularly cost effective and easy to build for the...
View ArticleWooden Clock To FPGA Conversion
[John] wanted a project to help him learn more about FPGAs. So he started with his wooden clock — made with an Arduino — and ported it over to a Lattice FPGA using Icestorm. What’s nice is that he...
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UV Glow Clock Tells The Time Glowingly
Reddit user [TuckerPi] wanted to make something to thank his father for helping him get through his engineering degrees. He hit it out of the park with this awesome glowing clock. The clock uses a...
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Arduino Tachometer Clock Fires on All Cylinders
We’re certainly no strangers to unique timepieces around these parts. For whatever reason, hackers are obsessed with finding new and interesting ways of displaying the time. Not that we’re complaining,...
View ArticleFollow The Bouncing Needles Of This Analog Meter Clock
Our community never seems to tire of clock builds. There are seemingly infinite ways to mark the passage of time, and finding unique ways to display it is endlessly fascinating. There’s something about...
View ArticleThis Creepy Skull Shows Time With Its Eyes
Sometimes you have an idea, and despite it not being the “right” time of year you put a creepy skull whose eyes tell the time and whose jaw clacks on the hour into a nice wooden box for your wife as a...
View ArticleEvery Digital Clock Is Made Of Analog Components
In 2008, an art studio out of Stockholm released the ClockClock, a digital clock with an analog heart. The ClockClock used 24 individual analog clocks — hour and minute hands and all — to display time...
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Is That A Word Clock In Your Pocket?
Word clocks are one of those projects that everyone seems to love. Even if you aren’t into the tech behind how they work, they have a certain appealing aesthetic. Plus you can read the time without...
View Article3D Printed Alarm Clock Looks Just Like Store Bought
Clocks are a popular project on Hackaday. They’re a great way to showcase a whole range of creative build techniques, and can make an excellent showpiece as well. We’ve seen everything from the...
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Ten 3D Printed Gadgets That Just Can’t Stay Still
There was a time, not so very long ago, when simply getting a 3D printer to squirt out an object that was roughly the intended shape and size of what the user saw on their computer screen was an...
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RetroPie NES Clock Tells You When it’s Game Time
We’ve all seen the 3D printed replicas of classic game consoles which house a Raspberry Pi; in fact, there’s a pretty good chance some of the people reading this post have one of their own. They’re a...
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An ESP8266 Sundial For Your Wall
Hackers absolutely love building clocks. Seriously, there are few other devices for which we’ve seen such an incredible number of variations. But while the clocks that hackers build might blink out the...
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A Scratch Built VFD Clock with Inner Beauty
Vacuum fluorescent displays (VFDs) are one of those beautiful pieces of bygone technology that you just don’t see much of anymore. At one time they were a mainstay of consumer electronics, but today...
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ESP32 Alarm Clock Doesn’t Skimp On The Features
The ESP family of microcontrollers is absolutely on fire right now, with a decent chunk of the projects that come our way now based on one of the impossibly cheap WiFi-enabled boards. In fact, they are...
View ArticleRobot Arms Nudge the Hands of Time in the Strangest Clock
We see a lot of clocks here at Hackaday. Digital clocks, retro clocks, lots of Nixie clocks, binary clocks, and clocks that appear to be designed specifically to be unreadable. But this dual-servo...
View ArticleWhat’s More Accurate than a GPS Clock? The OpenPPS GPS Clock
Making a GPS clock is a relatively straightforward process on the face of it. Buy a GPS module for a few dollars, hook it up to a microcontroller board of your choice, pick the appropriate library and...
View ArticleA Tetris Clock
We have had no shortage of clock projects over the years, and this one is entertaining because it spells the time out using Tetris-style blocks. The project looks good and is adaptable to different...
View ArticleMaking A Digital Clock A Little More Intuitive
Digital clocks are extremely useful and generally considered pretty easy to read. However, they can sometimes have rather arcane interfaces for setting the time and alarms. For [Michael Wessel], he...
View ArticleAn ESP8266 Clock With Built-In Notifications
When we recently discussed the skills that we might wish to impart upon a youngster, one of those discussed was the ability to speak more than one language. If any demonstration were required as to why...
View ArticleSplit Flap Clock Keeps Time Thanks to Custom Frequency Converter
Why would anyone put as much effort into resurrecting a 1970s split-flap clock as [mitxela] did when he built this custom PLL frequency converter? We’re not sure, but we do like the results. The clock...
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