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A One LED Clock
Esoteric clocks are something of a staple among hardware hacker projects. If it can be made to tell the time correctly, even if only twice a day, the chances are someone’s made a clock from it. And if...
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Unusual 72-Bulb Display Mechanism Found in Vintage Clock
It’s hard to beat a vintage clock for something that you can hack, and that your significant other might actually let you display in your home. It’s practical and it’s art all at the same time! But,...
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You May Have a Nixie Tube Clock, but Can Yours Levitate?
Nixie tubes, electromagnets, levitation, and microcontrollers — this project has “Hackaday” written all over it! Time Flies: Levitating Nixie Clock comes from [Tony Adams], and uses a lot of technology...
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Puzzlingly Simple Tutorial On GPS Time Corrected Clock
We’re not sure if [Derek Lieber] is messing with us or proving a point. Why are you doing this [Derek]? We know there’s technically enough information to build the clock. You even included the code....
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Wake Up With A NeoPixel Sunrise Alarm Clock
Like many of us, [Lee] wakes up every morning grumpy and tired. Once he decided to try to do something about it, he settled on making a sunrise alarm clock using NeoPixels. Over the course of thirty...
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VFD Clock Only Speaks Romanian
There’s no shortage of clock projects, but [niq_ro] has his own take using a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD), and Arduino, and a pair of MAX6921 ICs. Those chips are made to drive a VFD, and the use...
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Quick Hack Creates A Visual Beep Alarm
Sometimes a simple modification is all it takes to get something just the way you want it. The Ikea LÖTTORP clock/thermometer/timer caught [Mansour Behabadi’s] eye. The LÖTTORP has four functions...
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Simple Clock from Tiny Chip
If you haven’t jumped on the ESP8266 bandwagon yet, it might be a good time to get started. If you can program an Arduino you have pretty much all of the skills you’ll need to get an ESP8266 up and...
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Want To Wake Up In A Ship’s Warp Core? Circadia Sunrise Clock Makes it So
Who among you has difficulty rising in the mornings? Sunrise clocks that simulate a — well, sunrise, are a gentle means of returning to the waking world. [FlorianH], grappling with this very issue,...
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Rubidium Disciplined Real Time Clock
[Cameron Meredith] starts the Hackaday.io page for one of his projects by quoting a Hackaday write-up: “A timepiece is rather a rite of passage in the world of hardware hacking“. We stand by that...
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Who Could Resist a Color Coded Clock?
[Luc] wanted to make a clock like no other. He knows that the territory is well-trod, especially in the area of minimalist design. Undeterred, [Luc] came up with a fresh design that uses the resistor...
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Not Just Another Alarm Clock
Even though [Stefan] sent in this link with the heading “Another Sunrise Alarm Clock“, it’s anything but plain. Sure, from the outside it looks like a simple and refined design, but the story of...
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It’s a Clock! It’s a Puzzle! It’s The GoonieBox!
[Dr.Duino] recently completed the latest piece of what he calls “Interactive Furniture” – the GoonieBox. It took over 800 hours of design and assembly work and the result is fascinating. Part clock and...
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Minimal Arduino Clock
Making a clock with a common microcontroller like an Arduino isn’t very difficult. However, if you’ve tried it, you probably discovered that keeping track of wall time is difficult without some...
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Laser Pointer Clock Makes Timekeeping A Drawn-Out Affair
Designing a unique clock to flex your technical skills can be a rewarding experience and result in an admirable showpiece for your home. [Andres Robam] saw an opportunity to make a laser-pointer clock...
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Sunrise Alarm Clock with Organic Twist
Most hardware hackers have a clock project or two under their belt. A pretty common modification to a generic clock is to add lights to it, and if the clock has an alarm feature, it’s not too big of a...
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Really Big Digital Clock Finds Use for Really Big 3D Printer
What does it take to make a really big digital clock? If [Ivan Miranda]’s creation is any gauge, it takes a really big 3D printer, an armful of Neopixel strips, and a ton of hot melt glue. It looks...
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ESP Clock Needs More Power
[Victor-Chew] is tired of setting clocks. After all, here we are in the 21st century, why do we have to adjust clocks (something we just did for daylight savings time)? That’s why [Victor] came up with...
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The Little Mechanism That Made Precise Time-keeping Possible
There are few things to which we pay as much attention as the passage of time. We don’t want to be late for work, or a date. Even more importantly, we don’t want to age and die. Good time keeping is an...
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Heathkit: Getting Closer This Time?
We’ve been following the Heathkit reboot for a while now, and it looks like the storied brand is finally getting a little closer to its glory days. I was thumbing through the new issue of QST magazine...
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