In the Maker Shed: Bulbdial Clock kit

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January 5th, 2011 2

The Bulbdial Clock kit works like an indoor sundial, but with three shadows of different length. You tell the time just like you do on a normal clock, by reading the positions of the hour, minute, and second hands. The kit comes complete with three custom circuit boards, 72 ultrabright LEDs, pre-programmed ATmega168 microcontroller with Arduino bootloader, tactile button switches, aluminum standoffs, 20 ppm quartz crystal, custom clock face, gnomon spike, universal-input plug-in power supply, stainless mounting hardware, plus the resistors, capacitors and other little parts needed to build the Bulbdial clock. We even included a laser-cut acrylic case!

2 thoughts on “In the Maker Shed: Bulbdial Clock kit”

trockenf says:

January 7th, 2011 at 2:22 pm

For me has the Bulbdial Clock a wonderful in colour composition, I am just inspired. Indeed, I will be hardly able to assemble the kit with all individual parts, for it I am not enough talented and not enough technically versed. But if the clock was completely to be bought, I would buy them immediately without looking at the price.