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Category Archives: clock hacks
Making A Digital Clock A Little More Intuitive
Digital clocks are extremely useful and generally considered pretty easy to read. However, they can sometimes have rather arcane interfaces for setting the time and alarms. For [Michael Wessel], he noted that in the 1980s he had to routinely help his grandparents set their clocks for this very reason. That …read more
Posted in clock, clock hacks, seven segment
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Stylish Alarm Clock Rocks a VFD
There are a great many display technologies available if you wish to make a digital clock. Many hackers seem to have a penchant for the glowier fare from the Eastern side of the Berlin Wall. [ChristineNZ] is one such hacker, and managed to secure some proper Soviet kit for an …read more
Posted in arduino, clock hacks, vacuum fluorescent display, vfd
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A Tetris Clock
We have had no shortage of clock projects over the years, and this one is entertaining because it spells the time out using Tetris-style blocks. The project looks good and is adaptable to different displays. The code is on GitHub and it relies on a Tetris library that has been …read more
Posted in Arduino Hacks, clock, clock hacks, ESP32, tetris
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Waterproofing The Best Watch Ever Made
The Casio F-91W is probably the most popular wristwatch ever made. It’s been in production forever, it’s been worn by presidents, and according to US Army intelligence it is “the sign of al-Qaeda”. There’s a lot of history in this classic watch. That said, there is exactly one problem with …read more
Posted in casio, Casio F-91W, clock hacks, mineral oil, waterproof, wearable hacks
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What’s More Accurate than a GPS Clock? The OpenPPS GPS Clock
Making a GPS clock is a relatively straightforward process on the face of it. Buy a GPS module for a few dollars, hook it up to a microcontroller board of your choice, pick the appropriate library and write a bit of code, et voila! A clock with time-wonk bragging …read more
Posted in clock, clock hacks, ESP32, fpga, GPS clock
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Web Interface Controls Nixie Tube Clock
We love our clocks around here and we love nixie tubes as well. The combination of the two almost seems to be a no-brainer. With the modern twist of an ESP8266, Reddit user [vladco] built a minimalist nixie tube clock.
The build starts with the nixie tubes, Russian In4s, each …read more
Posted in clock hacks, ESP8266, nixie clock, nixie tube, nixie tube clock, web ui
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GPS Self-Adjusting Clock With An E-Ink Display
If you mention a clock that receives its time via radio, most people will think of one taking a long wave signal from a station such as WWVB, MSF, or DCF77. A more recent trend however has been for clocks that set themselves from orbiting navigation satellites, and an example …read more
Posted in 2019 Hackaday Prize, clock hacks, glock, gps, time
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Vintage Camera Flash Turned OLED Desk Clock
After covering a few of his builds at this point, we think it’s abundantly clear that [Igor Afanasyev] has a keen eye for turning random pieces of antiquated hardware into something that’s equal parts functional and gorgeous. He retains the aspects of the original which give it that unmistakable vintage …read more
Posted in Arduino Hacks, classic hacks, clock hacks, flash, oled, retro, rtc, ssd1306, vintage
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Random Word Pairings Mark The Time On This Unusual Clock
Gosh, the fun we had when digital calculators became affordable enough that mere grade school students could bring one to class. The discovery that the numbers could be construed as the letters of various dirty words when viewed upside down was the source of endless mirth. They were simpler times. …read more
Posted in clock hacks, led, PICAXE, prng, seven segment, word clock
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ESP32 Alarm Clock Doesn’t Skimp On The Features
The ESP family of microcontrollers is absolutely on fire right now, with a decent chunk of the projects that come our way now based on one of the impossibly cheap WiFi-enabled boards. In fact, they are so cheap and popular that we’ve started to see a somewhat unexpected trend; people …read more
Posted in alarm clock, BH150, clock, clock hacks, dht-11, ESP32, ILI9341, Microcontrollers, touch sensor
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