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Handmade Wooden Wall Clock Keeps Surprisingly Good Time

Handmade Wooden Wall Clock Keeps Surprisingly Good Time

By David Scheltema

David Scheltema

I love to tinker and write about electronics. My days are spent building projects and working as a Technical Editor for MAKE.

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While cleaning out an old laptop’s filesystem back in October, David West discovered a few videos he took of a mechanical clock atop the South Ward Meeting Hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Years before his digital find, he worked in that very building and became so interested by the clock’s movement that he recorded several […]

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Craft Your Decor: DIY Perler Bead Clock

Craft Your Decor: DIY Perler Bead Clock

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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Fusible beads are for more than just craft time with kids. Use hama or perler beads to make your own cool DIY perler bead clock! Pretty neat, right? Craft up some unique and creative home decor with this fun perler bead clock tutorial from FRK Hansen.

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How-To: Polka Dot Wall Clock

How-To: Polka Dot Wall Clock

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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Is a custom clock on your DIY to-do list? You’ll definitely want to check out this polka dot wall clock tutorial!

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Masterpiece of Soldering: You Won’t Believe This Handmade Electronic Clock

Masterpiece of Soldering: You Won’t Believe This Handmade Electronic Clock

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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This clock not only displays the time, but all of the components you would see in a wristwatch microchip if viewed under a microscope.

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“Dottie” the Flip Dot Clock

“Dottie” the Flip Dot Clock

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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Most of us have probably seen clocks or numerical displays that flip sequential boards to display the next number in a sequence. If you wanted to take that a step further, you could make a replica of “Dottie,” which flips small dots as pixels. As the great video below says, it makes a “pleasant mechanical […]

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