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Category Archives: clock hacks
HDD-Driven Chime Clock is Quite Striking
It seems that the more hectic life gets, the harder it is to consciously slow down and enjoy the experience. There’s always another bill to worry about, and a new deadline around the corner. The last thing we need are ultra-precise digital clocks everywhere we look. When it’s time to …read more
Posted in chime, chime clock, clapper, clock hacks, hard drive actuator, hdd, NodeMCU, solenoid, uln2003, westminster chimes
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74-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 electronics, he set out to build a working clock using 74-series logic. …read more
Posted in 74 series logic, clock, clock hacks, MEMS, mems oscillator
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City 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 sake, however. The City Clock shows that it can be applied quite artfully, too.
The electronic side of …read more
Posted in binary clock, clock, clock hacks
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Voltmeter 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 very stylish timepiece along the way.
[Brett] initially wanted to go with 240-degree voltmeters, however the …read more
Posted in clock, clock hacks, multimeter clock, voltmeter
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Happy 50th Birthday to All You Epoch Birthers
Good morning everyone, and what a lovely start to the new year it is, because it’s your birthday! Happy birthday, it’s your 50th! What’s that you say, you aren’t 50 today? (Looks…) That’s what all these internet databases say, because you’ve spent the last decade or so putting 1970-01-01 as …read more
Posted in clock hacks, Featured, history, Interest, Original Art, timing, unix, unix epoch
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Numitron 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 display popular in the 1970s, and often used in aircraft avionics and other high-end …read more
Posted in clock, clock hacks, display, numitron
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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 anything wrong with that). Might as well make it do something, right?
[How …read more
Custom Nixies Perform When Cranked Up to 100,000 Hertz
With the popularity of Nixie clocks, we’d be forgiven for thinking that the glowing tubes are only good for applications with a stately pace of change. But we forget that before they became the must-have hobbyist accessory, Nixies were used in all kinds of scientific instruments, from frequency counters to …read more
Posted in clock hacks, gas discharge, ground state, half-life, High speed camera, neon, nixie, timer
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Tracking Wasted Time With A Ferrofluid Clock
We know this project is supposed to be about developing a fine-looking ferrofluid clock, and not about the value of procrastination. But after watching the video below, see if you don’t think that procrastination has taken these two students further than expected.
We first ran into [Simen] and [Amund] several …read more
Posted in brine, Chemistry, clock hacks, electromagnet, ferrofluid, magnet, misc hacks, Procrastination, Teensy
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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 creation. Hackaday’s Tell Time Contest is a celebration of interesting …read more
Posted in clock, clock hacks, contests, tell time contest, timepiece
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