Catena clock tells time with a chain
If there’s one thing I can’t get enough of, it is funny ways to tell time, and this catena wall clock definitely fits the bill.
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Gear clock is both functional and structural
Alan Parekh of Hacked Gadgets made this really nice looking gear clock using a PIC microcontroller, a scavenged stepper motor, and a bunch of wooden gears that he cut out on a CNC router.
Tick-talk clock amuses, might tell time
Nicholas Wallen’s tick-tock clock takes an interesting look at what constitutes a clock.
BlokClok Project
Here’s a super-nerdy timepiece created using Arduino, a DS1307 real-time clock chip, four 74HC595 shift registers, and an 8×8 RGB dot matrix display. How does it tell time? The time is indicated using blocks of colour. The central 6×6 grid is split into 4 x (3×3) grids and each 3×3 block is a different colour. […]
The poetry of time
As a huge fan of TokyoFlash, I love weird and wonderful ways of telling time. Time is stranger than we like to acknowledge, why not monkey with it more, taunt it? This objet d’heure moves around to mark the hours. A continuous line of verse skirts the edge and the clock moves to rest on […]
Wake up your fish feeder
Cheap automatic aquarium feeder on the go. – More DIY How To Projects Zach, one of my 9th grade students showed me this last week. Hey, maybe you should really mess with your fish by modifying this idea to feed them every time you download files to your thumb drive. It really could be feast […]
Celestia clock finished!
We’ve been anxious to see how this amazing calendar clock turned out since we first wrote about it last April. One year later, it’s finished! Actually, it was finished in December — the builder, Sean Gallagher, finished it over the holidays, as a present to himself. Really incredible design, engineering, and craftsmanship. And it’s driven […]
