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Category Archives: clock hacks
Nixie Clock Failure Analysis, [Dalibor Farný] Style
We’ve become sadly accustomed to consumer devices that seem to give up the ghost right after the warranty period expires. And even when we get “lucky” and the device fails while it’s still covered, chances are that there will be no attempt to repair it; the unit will be replaced …read more
Posted in clock, clock hacks, failure analysis, nixie, pcb, QA, QC, quality control, repair, solder, teardown, via
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Ask Hackaday: What’s The Perfect Hacker Smart Watch?
Since Dick Tracy all the way back in ’46, smart watches have captured the public imagination. After several false starts, the technology has gone through a renaissance in the last 10 years or so. For the average consumer, there’s been a proliferation of hardware in the marketplace, with scores of …read more
Posted in Ask Hackaday, clock hacks, Interest, Original Art, pebble, smartwatch, wearable hacks
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This Word Clock Has Dirty Alphanumeric Mouth
Clocks which use words to tell the time in place of numbers are an increasingly popular hacker project, but we have to admit that before seeing this gorgeous clock from [Mitch Feig], we didn’t realize how badly we wanted to see one that could curse like a sailor.
But don’t …read more
Haptic Clock Lets You Keep Your Eyes Shut At Night
Picture this: You’re in your bed in the middle of the night, and you want to know what time it is. Bedside alarm clocks are a thing of the past and now you rely on your smartphone to tell the time. Only, if you turned the screen on, you’d find …read more
100 Year Old Atomic Clock
Precision time is ubiquitous today thanks to GPS and WWVB. Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘Atomic Clock’) that is part of a global consortium of atomic clocks known as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Without …read more
Posted in clock hacks, Featured, gps hacks, Interest
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Impractical Clock Uses Tuning Fork
Clock projects are so common that they are almost a cliche. After all, microcontrollers have some clock source and are good at counting, so it stands to reason that a clock is an obvious project. [WilkoL’s] clock though has a most unusual clock source: a 440 Hz tuning fork.
Posted in ATtiny Hacks, clock, clock hacks, tuning fork
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Nixiewatch Looks Stylish In Aluminium
Nixie tubes are a perennial favorite, with their burnt orange glow bringing a smile to the face of even the most jaded maker. Due to their power requirements they’re usually seen in desktop clocks, but [RemcoK3] decided to whip up a Nixiewatch, with stylish results.
Packing twin Nixie tubes, the …read more
Posted in clock hacks, nixie, nixie clock, nixie tube, nixie watch
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Torturing an Instrumented Dive Watch, for Science
The Internet is a wild and wooly place where people can spout off about anything with impunity. If you sound like you know what you’re talking about and throw around a few bits of the appropriate jargon, chances are good that somebody out there will believe whatever you’re selling.
Case …read more
Posted in BMP280, clock hacks, crown, depth, dving, ESP-01, misc hacks, pressure, seal, sensor, temperature, watch, water pressure, wifi
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Scripting Language Rapidly Develops A Clock
In the past, you might very well have started programming in Basic. It wasn’t very powerful language and it was difficult to build big projects with, but it was simple to learn, easy to use, and the interpreter made it easy to try things out without a big investment of …read more
Posted in annex, Arduino Hacks, basic, clock, clock hacks, scripting
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LED Matrix Becomes Fun Tetris Clock
Sometimes a project is borne simply out of the fact that some interesting parts have been left sitting around too long. Of course, this is as good a reason to build as any other, and can often lead to some interesting results. [Jorj Bauer]’s Tetris Display is one such project. …read more
Posted in clock, clock hacks, ESP-01, tetris
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