Friday, July 14th, 2017
Manuel Azevedo did a review of Akafugu's modular VFD clock: I discovered this wonderful tiny VFD clock by chance, while browsing Tindie for novelties. As I’m a newcomer to this Nixie/VFD world, I was not aware that Brian Stuckey already did an article in 2014 on a previous incarnation of...Tags: review, VFD
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Friday, January 20th, 2017
Andrew Moser made a lethal nixie tube clock: Clock 1: Single tube Lethal Nixie clock — you know having all the high voltage lines exposed and un-insulated. Inspiration for this design was from this clock. Unfortunately I built mine right after having surgery. I think the painkillers had something to...Tags: Arduino, Nixie tube clock
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Friday, December 2nd, 2016
Nicu Florica blogged about his adjusting clock with alarm, hygrometer and thermometer on 1.8" ST7735 display: I use feature from article Another adjusting clock with alarm & thermometer using DS3231 on 1.8" ST7735 display and change reading internal temperature of DS3231 with DHT22 senzor (AM2302), but you can use a cheaper...Tags: alarm clock, am2302, DHT22, DS3231, ST7735
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
Sverre Holm blogged about his Arduino clock project: Its main features are: Controlled by a GPS module outputting data over an RS232 serial interface, and handled with the TinyGPS++ library Shows raw GPS data such as UTC time and date, position, altitude, and number of satellitess Shows derived GPS data such...Tags: clock, GPS, K3NG keyer, Morse
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Thursday, October 6th, 2016
Frederick Vandenbosch made a binary clock with Raspberry Pi Zero and Unicorn pHAT. He documented the whole process on his blog: At the center of the project are a PiZero and a Unicorn pHAT. The PiZero fetches the time, converts it to binary and controls the Unicorn pHAT with a...Tags: clock, Pi Zero, Raspberry Pi
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
Benoit Frigon wrote an article detailing his alarm clock running Linux project, that is available on github: This is the display i made for my alarm clock project. The first version was a 24x7 LED matrix but later changed the design for a four digits seven segment display. I decided...Tags: alarm clock, Linux
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
Daniel has a nice write-up about building his Manhattan style VFD Clock based on the MSP430G2553 microcontroller and the MAX6921: I know that and IV-18 based clock isn’t anything original. In fact, Adafruit used to sell a kit for this exact purpose. I don’t really care that it’s not original,...Tags: MAX6921, MSP430G2553, VFD
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Saturday, May 7th, 2016
Joakim made a coundown clock for his wife and documented the whole process on his blog: The clock is built using an Arduino, and has a battery powered real time clock to remember the time while powered off. To make it truly stand alone I added the possibility to set the time...Tags: clock, DIY
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Thursday, October 8th, 2015
Markus Gritsch posted pictures of his PIC24 bedside table alarm clock in the project log forum: Another year, another clock, but for the first time for my alarm clocks. I am not using an MSP430 but a PIC24 instead. Standby current is with 5.5 µA only slightly higher than that of my MSP430...Tags: alarm clock, PIC24
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Monday, June 29th, 2015
Kevin Rye has written an article detailing his new Mini 7-segment clock v3. We previously covered version 1 and version 2: I hope the LEGO minifig gives you a good sense of scale. This clock is pretty small. It's amazing how small the Mini Clock has become after just 3...Tags: 7-segment, Arduino
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
Jordan aka njneer made this cool binary watch project, that is available at Github: I’m pretty proud of this project; the clasp is a ribbon cable that doubles as the programming interface for the PIC microcontroller that drives everything. The time is displayed with superbright LEDs that are blinding at 15 mA, which...Tags: binary watch, watch
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Monday, January 26th, 2015
An update on Kevin Rye's GPS clock project we covered previously: I've been working on this clock for a long time, and a lot of effort has been put into it. I've learned so much from this project. I do have to admit some parts of the code aren't as...Tags: clock, GPS
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Monday, October 20th, 2014
F*watch team writes: F*watch is a fully open electronic watch project featuring an integrated GPS receiver. The development started at CERN as an after-work project to make a special present for a retiring colleague who likes hiking and timing. The full design (electronics, mechanics and software) is available under free...Tags: GPS receiver, watch
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Friday, October 3rd, 2014
Kevin Rye writes: I’m in the very early stages of prototyping a nixie clock. I picked up some MJE340 power transistors to switch on some IN-3s. I can then use a digital pin on my Arduino to turn on the IN-3s through the transistor. I’ll then have myself a blinking...Tags: Nixie tube clock
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
DickB over at the 430h forum built this cool MSP430 propelled pendulum clock: This pendulum clock is not only regulated by the pendulum, but it is driven by it. A hidden magnet in the pendulum swings past a hidden coil and induces a current. This is detected and then a current...Tags: DIY, pendulum clock
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2014
ACVoltage wrote this instructable detailing his DIY POV clock using hard disk drive and Arduino Uno: This is a fun project that can be done easily and also cheaply. In this instructable we will explain step by step how to make this beautiful POV clock. Used material: -Arduino Uno, -Tiny RTC modul, -ULN 2003,...Tags: Arduino Uno, RGB, sensor
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
Want to build your own world clock? Check out Wouter's DIY word clock instructables: ...I have found one DIY project that really stands out: Elektronika.ba's wordclock, proving that it is possible to build your own wordclock that is as pretty as the original. Also, here is a video of the...Tags: Arduino, LED
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Friday, August 8th, 2014
Here's a voltmeter clock project based on a multimeter clock design by Alan Parekh: I have used three voltmeters and mounted them on a wooden plinth with a clear Perspex cover to give the clock an industrial look. I have modified Alan’s code to run on PICBasic Pro version 3....Tags: DIY, voltmeter
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Thursday, August 7th, 2014
x2Jiggy wrote a post on his blog detailing the build of his DIY binary clock: This clock uses a minimalist design constructed in the shell of an old hard drive. A DS1307 Real Time Clock (RTC) module keeps accurate time while an ATMega328 (with Arduino bootloader) microcontroller determines which LEDs should be...Tags: Atmega328, rtc
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Thursday, July 10th, 2014
Tom Cousins of DOAYEE made this DIY nixie tube clock: Below is the schematic for the project, as you can see I’m using 6 IN12 nixie tubes, each with it’s own 74141 nixie tube driver. These drivers are great! They simply connect directly to the nixies and display whatever 4 bit...Tags: ATMega328p, IN12 nixie tubes
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