Start Your Day With The Mountain That Rises
Like many of us, [Zach Archer] enjoys the comfort of his darkened room so much that he has trouble getting up and facing the day. To make things a little easier for himself, he decided to put together...
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New Contest: Tell Time
Clocks. You love ’em, we certainly love ’em. So you hardly need a reason to take on a new clock build, but it makes it much sweeter when you know there’s a horde of people waiting to fawn over your...
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It’s About Time We Saw Another Infinity Mirror Clock
Have you made an infinity mirror yet? They’re pretty much a rite of passage project at this point. But unlike that DIY power supply, most of them serve no function beyond looking cool (not that there’s...
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A Nixie Radio Clock Fit For a Victorian Mad Scientist
[Ioszelos] built a nixie clock with a dizzying array of features. Do you ever wish that you could log in to your clock from your phone and turn off your TV? We assume that [Ioszelos] did. The clock can...
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Replace Your Smartphone With These Arcane Amulets
It’s hard not to feel the constant pull on our limited attention from the very interesting rectangles in our pockets and packs. [Antoine Pintout] is fighting against it with three interesting pendants....
View ArticleNumitron Clock Is A Tidy ’70s Throwback
As far as hacker clock builds go, the more obscure the parts involved, the better. By this yardstick, [sjm4306] has a great piece on his hands with this Numitron-based build. The Numitron was a type of...
View ArticleTiny Bubbles in the Clock
When [DonHo] sang about tiny bubbles, he probably wasn’t thinking of them embedded in glycerine. But that’s where the bubbles in [ShinodaY]’s clock reside. The viscous fluid holds the bubbles better...
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Color Coded Clock Runs On Roman Numerals
Roman numerals are, by modern standards, a bit unusual. By virtue of using designations for both 5 and 10, and not scaling well to higher numbers, they’ve fallen out of favor outside of some specific...
View ArticleWord Clock Does The Job With Laser-Etched Acrylic
As far as telling the time, word clocks go out of their way to spell it out for you. As long as you know the language, they’re a stylish and effective way to get the message across. [Simon] built an...
View ArticleAnalog Meter Clock Uses Parts From A Simpler Time
Clocks with hands that turn are all well and good for the common folk, but hacker types prefer something different. [Sjm4306] is one such person, and developed this analog dial clock with parts we’d...
View ArticleVoltmeter Clock Looks Great On Display
Voltmeters are cheap, and have a great industrial aesthetic about them. This makes them prime candidates for hackers looking to do a clock build. [Brett Oliver] went down this very road, and built a...
View ArticleCity Clock Is Beautiful Tribute To Parisian Architecture
Binary clocks are often created as a programming exercise, or to display the time in a project with the minimal practical components. Displaying the time in binary needn’t always be for practicalities...
View Article74-Series Clock Gets A MEMS Heart
[Erik van Zijst] has had a long career as a programmer, but lacked an understanding of what was happening at a bare metal level. After building a few logic gates out of transistors to get a feel for...
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Clock Uses Custom LED Displays to Keep Myst Time
The Myst fans in the audience will love this project because it displays the 25-hour timekeeping system of the D’ni. The hardware hackers will lean a little closer to their screen because it does so...
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Soviet Soyuz Clock Teardown
We love spacecraft and we definitely love teardowns, especially if they are for vintage devices. [Ken Shirriff] writes about taking apart the digital clock module from the Soviet Soyuz series of...
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Unique Clock Finally Unites Hackers and Sequins
We’ve all seen the two-color sequin fabrics you can “draw” on by dragging your finger over so the pieces flip to the other color. It’s fun stuff to play with, and very popular with the kids right now,...
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A Network Attached VFD Tube Clock
The elegance of Power over Ethernet (PoE) is that you can provide network connectivity and power over a single cable. Unfortunately not nearly enough hardware seems to support this capability, forcing...
View ArticleWatch Your Life Tick Away with This Lifetime Countdown Clock
Good news, everyone! Now you can have an ongoing existential crisis, every second of your ever-dwindling life with this personal life countdown timer. Why would anyone want to be confronted by a count...
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Huge Seven Segment Display Made From Broken Glass
A staple of consumer devices for decades, seven segment displays are arguably one of the most recognizable electronic components out there. So it’s probably no surprise they’re cheap and easy to source...
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Tell Time Contest Winners: Clocks to Knock Your Socks Off
The results are in and the Tell Time Contest was a spectacular showing of creativity. Five winners and a number of runners-up have have been chosen based on craftsmanship, functionality, and...
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