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Category Archives: clock hacks
Inverse 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 lying around with some old toys and don’t mind cannibalizing it for the project, …read more
LEGO 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 the same old boring clock, contemplating time and the meaning of time itself, why …read more
Posted in Arduino Hacks, clock, clock hacks, DS3231 RTC, led matrix, lego, LEGO clock, real time clock
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Seven-Segment Shelves Do Double Duty
[Lewis] of [DIY Machines] was always on the lookout for that perfect something to hang above the couch. After spending a lot of time fruitlessly searching, he designed and built this awesome shelving unit with recessed lighting that doubles as a huge 7-segment clock.
The clock part works as you …read more
Posted in arduino, Arduino Hacks, arduino nano, clock hacks, RGB LED, ws2812b
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144 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 together, and you’ve got 1152 individual LEDs to control. This presented a problem, …read more
Posted in 7-segment display, clock, clock hacks, multiplex
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OpenChronograph Lets You Roll Your Own Smart Watch
At first, smartwatches were like little tiny tablets or phones that you wore on your wrist. More recently though we have noticed more “hybrid” smartwatches, that look like a regular watch, but that use their hands to communicate data. For example you might hear a text message come in and …read more
Posted in Android Hacks, clock hacks, fossil, openchronograph, skagen, smartwatch
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Arkanoid 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 touchstone. It can even be both, in the case of the …read more
Posted in arkanoid, clock, clock hacks, oled, pic
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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. In the field of handwriting recognition, the MNIST database is commonly used to train …read more
Posted in clock, clock hacks, handwriting recognition, mnist, mnist databse
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Foxie 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, for there are other ways to go – as [Alex Fox] demonstrates with the Foxie Clock. …read more
Posted in clock, clock hacks, edge-lit
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Huge Seven Segment Display Made From Broken Glass
A staple of consumer devices for decades, seven segment displays are arguably one of the most recognizable electronic components out there. So it’s probably no surprise they’re cheap and easy to source for our own projects. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for personal interpretation.
[MacCraiger] wanted to build …read more
Posted in clock, clock hacks, diffuser, epoxy, led hacks, RGB LED strip, seven segment display, wall clock
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Watch Your Life Tick Away with This Lifetime Countdown Clock
Good news, everyone! Now you can have an ongoing existential crisis, every second of your ever-dwindling life with this personal life countdown timer.
Why would anyone want to be confronted by a count of the number of seconds left until you’ve made 80 trips around the sun? We can think …read more
Posted in clock, clock hacks, countdown, doomsday, DS3231, rtc, Teensy
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