Nixie Clock Claims to be Simplest Design
[Engineer2you] built a nixie tube clock and claims it is the simplest design. We felt like that was a challenge. In this design, the tubes are set up as a matrix with optoisolators on each row and...
View ArticleFoxie Clock Works In Two Ways
Nixie tubes are a hacker favorite for their warm glow and elegant, mid-century numerals. They’re also a pain to drive, demand high voltages, and aren’t exactly cheap and easy to come by. Never mind,...
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MNIST Clock Uses Famous Training Database
When training neural networks to recognise things, what you need is a big pile of training data. You then need a subsequent pile of testing data to verify that the network is working as you’d expect....
View ArticleArkanoid Clock Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
A clock can be a simple device that keeps you aware of the current time, but it can also be so much more. It can express an aesthetic ideal from yesteryear, or be a throwback to a popular cultural...
View ArticleMake a Vintage-Looking Clock in a Flash
Now that everyone has a phone with a camera, we would bet that fewer people than ever are in the market for a nice vintage flash unit such as the one [lonesoulsurfer] chose for this cool clock build....
View ArticleNixies Adorn a Cold War Relic to Make a Geiger Clock
Say what you will about the centrally planned economies of the Soviet bloc during the Cold War, but their designs had a brutal style all their own. When one comes across an artifact from that time,...
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Giant Clock Made In the Nick of Time
When [tnjyoung] was asked to build a huge lighted clock for a high school theater’s production of Cinderella with only two weeks before opening night, he probably wished for a fairy godmother of his...
View ArticleJust When You Thought There Was Nothing New In Nixie Clocks…
Nixie clocks have become such a staple in our community as to have become mundane. They’re pretty, but show us something new! It seems [Marcin Saj] has done just that with his offering, because with a...
View ArticleGorgeous Clock, And Not A Line of Code in Sight
[Harry] dropped us a note to let us know about his completed CMOS clock project, and we’re delighted that he did because it’s gorgeous. It’s a digital clock satisfyingly assembled entirely from...
View Article144 7-Segment Displays Combine To Form A Mighty Clock
What do you do with 144 7-segment displays? If you’re [Frugha] you put them all together to create an epic clock. Each display has 8 individual LEDs — 7 segments, and a decimal point. Put that all...
View ArticleLEGO My Colorful Custom Clock
[Sofia] spent a lot of time looking around for the perfect LEGO clock. Eventually, she realized that the perfect LEGO clock is, of course, the one you build yourself. So if you find yourself staring at...
View ArticleInverse Kinematics Robot Arm Magna-Doodles The Time For You
Following a surge of creativity fueled by the current lockdown, [Diglo] writes in with his tabletop clock driven by a robotic arm drawing on a Magna Doodle tablet. And if you have one of those still...
View ArticleWhat Day Is It?
With much of the world staying at home at the moment, keeping track of our sanity and the day of the week is a bit of a challenge, especially without the normal daily routine to hold onto. To help with...
View ArticleTell Time like It’s 1960 With This All-Transistor Digital Clock
When you’ve got time on your hands, doing something the hard way can be therapeutic. Not that the present situation and the abundance of free time that many are experiencing has anything to do with...
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Planetary Gears Tell Time In This Ornamental Clock
A clock is perhaps one of the the most popular projects among makers. Most designs we see are purely electronic and do not bother with the often more complicated mechanical part. Instructables user...
View ArticleQuarantine Clock Focuses On The Essential
In these dire times of self quarantining, social distancing, and life as know it coming to a halt, time itself can become rather blurry, and even word clocks may seem unnecessarily precise — especially...
View ArticleLED Clock Strips Time Down to Pulses of Light
Nietzsche said (essentially) that time is a flat circle — we are doomed to repeat history whether we remember it or not. This is a stark and sobering thought for sure, but it’s bound to dissipate the...
View ArticleServo-Powered 7-Segments Choreograph This Chronograph
Good clocks are generally those that keep time well. But we think the mark of a great clock is one that can lure the observer into watching time pass. It doesn’t really matter how technical a timepiece...
View ArticleWatch the Day Inch Along with a Tape Measure Clock
If we asked you to rattle off all the tools at your own personal disposal, you’d probably leave your timepieces off the list. But we say clocks are definitely tools — cool tools that come in countless...
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Quarantine Clock Answers the Important Question
For many people, these last few weeks have been quite an adjustment. When the normal routine of work or school is suddenly removed, it’s not unusual for your internal clock to get knocked out of...
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