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Category Archives: clock hacks
Matrix of Resistors Forms the Hot Hands Behind This Thermochromic Analog Clock
If you’re going to ditch work, you might as well go big. A 1,024-pixel thermochromic analog clock is probably on the high side of what most people would try, but apparently [Daniel Valuch] really didn’t want to go to work that day.
The idea here is simple: heat up a …read more
Posted in analog, arduino nano, clock, clock hacks, flip-flop, heat, lcd, resistor, shift register, smd, thermochromic
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Is that an ESP32 on Your Wrist?
What could you do with a dual-core 240 MHz ESP32 that supports Arduino-style programming, with 16 MB of flash, 8 MB of PSRAM, and 520 k of RAM? Oh, let’s throw in a touchscreen, an accelerometer, Wifi, and Bluetooth. Besides that, it fits on your wrist and can show the …read more
Posted in Arduino Hacks, clock hacks, ESP32, Lilygo, smartwatch, watch, wearable hacks
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LED Matrix Takes You Down To Nixieland
It’s said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Sure, there are some who might simply sugarcoat blatant plagiarism with fancy quotes, but there are still cases that come from well-intended, genuine admiration. The Nixie tube with its ember-like glow is a component that definitely gets a lot of …read more
Posted in clock hacks, led hacks, nixie, nixie clock, RGB LED matrix
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Clear Some Space and Build a Cosmo Clock
Like many of us, [Artistikk] is inspired by astronauts and space travel in general. To keep the inspiration coming, he made the Cosmo Clock — a sleek little clock that changes color whenever an astronaut is launched into space.
As awesome as space is, we’re inspired by the amount of …read more
Posted in clock hacks, ESP8266, IFTTT, Microcontrollers, morse code, NodeMCU, reuse, space, wristwatch
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Beautiful Free-Form LED Clock Recreates 20-Year-Old Weekend Project
Here at Hackaday, we love a good clock project. And if it’s an artistically executed freeform sculpture, even better. But tell us that it’s also a new spin on a classic project from two decades ago, and we’re over the moon for it. Case in point: [Paul Gallagher’s] beautiful recreation …read more
Posted in clock hacks, Microcontrollers
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Cheap Smartwatch Hacking, To Run Your Own Code
[Aaron Christophel] has been busy, he picked up a P8 smartwatch of the type that many of you will no doubt have seen. They cost almost nothing and do almost… nothing. In all fairness, they do connect to your phone using Bluetooth LE courtesy of a chip from Nordic (the …read more
Posted in clock hacks, nordic, nRF52832, smart watch, smartwatch
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LED 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 longer you look at [andrei.erdei]’s literal realization of time as a flat circle. …read more
Posted in art, clock, clock hacks, ESP-01, ESP8266, fastLED, led, ws2812
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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 [Looman_projects] though was not afraid of calculating gear ratios and tooth counts for his planetary gear clock. …read more
Posted in clock, clock hacks, laser cutter, planetary gear
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Seven-Segment Single-Steps Through the Time
Have you ever looked at the time, and then had to look again because it just didn’t register? This phenomenon seems more prevalent with phone timepieces, but it’s been known to happen with standard wall clocks, too. This latest offering in a stream of unusual clocks fashioned by [mircemk] solves …read more
Tell 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 [Leo Fernekes] all-transistor digital clock build, which he started a year ago with his students. …read more