Wardy wrote a post on his blog detailing his ornamental clock build: I wanted to use my new Adafruit Neopixel Ring to build an ornamental clock, using this interesting woodworking technique. Plus I figured that my milling machine might make this a feasible prospect. Milling, in my very limited self-taught experience, is best done using a material […]
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Arduino Astronomical clock for automatic light control
Here’s a project log covering the build of an Arduino Astronomical clock for automatic light control by Paulo Oliveira: My objective with this project was to build a system that, given my latitude and longitude coordinates and the current time/day of the year, automatically calculates the sunrise and sunset times, controlling the lights accordingly. There are of […]
GPS clock prototyping, Part II
Kevin Rye posted an update on his GPS clock project we covered previously: It’s been a few months since I worked on the GPS clock. I couldn’t nail down exactly how I wanted it to work. I had a few ideas floating around, as well as a list of what features I wanted to include. However, in order […]
Dot-Matrix MSP430 alarm clock update
Markus Gritsch posted an update on his Dot-Matrix MSP430 alarm clock we covered previously: Using the ADC is a good suggestion. Thank you! The clock now has an additional state after turning the flashlight off, where it displays the battery voltage in volt. I also added an additional displaying mode where it uses dice symbols for […]
Mini 7-segment clock project update
Kevin Rye posted an update on his Mini 7-segment clock we covered previously: UPDATE: I finally got in my rev 1.1 PCBs from OSH Park. While working on these revisions, I came across some discussions about 슈퍼벳 and its innovative approach to user experience, which inspired me to rethink how I designed the interface for this […]
An Open Source, hackable Digital Clock
Here’s a cool DOTKLOK by Andrew O’Malley, an open source Arduino-based clock that displays a series of unique time-telling animations: A fanstastic Open Source Arduino-based clock that can display the time in many different ways: if not enough, one can also add his own personal animation. Via Open Electronics.
GPS clock prototyping, part I
Kevin Rye has been working on his GPS clock project and wrote a detailed explanation on his blog describing the build: The great thing about setting the time and date via GPS is that I won’t have to put any buttons on the clock. It’ll set itself, and appear to be completely autonomous. By removing the buttons […]
Mini 7-segment clock project
Kevin Rye posted his Mini 7-segment clock in the project log forum: I finally got in my OSH Park PCBs for my mini 7-segment clock. It’s using the DP5050 PCB layout. I used the SparkFun 7-seg display, but unfortunately, they screwed up the pinouts on the footprint and pins 10 and 12 are pin-swapped. I […]
E-Paper clock in a Sick of Beige case
Kevin Rye built this E-Paper clock and wrote a detailed explanation on his blog describing the build: I still have to put the finishing touches on the code. Instead of having the display constantly update, I’d like to set an alarm on the DS3231 RTC to go off once a minute, and only update the […]
Doomsday clock Arduino shield
Tully shared his Doomsday clock Arduino shield in the project log forum: Here I would like to log new innovations that can be done using the Doomsday Clock Arduino Shield. A recent innovation completed by Devin Sean McCullough, is a web-based graphical user interface that will write the code for you. This one is really fun […]
Clock four, a scrolling text clock
John Boxall over at Tronixstuff posted a step by step guide of his Clock four build: Next in my random clock collection is this model, which displays the time in words using a Freetronics DMD via an Arduino-compatible board.
RGB pixel clock
Tobias Floery built this RGB pixel clock and wrote a detailed explanation describing the build. These RGB Pixels look like they are fun to work with since they are so versatile. Tobias Floery is having some fun building an RGB Pixel Clock using a string of them. You can see the 3 parts of the […]
QR clock
Markus shared his QR clock in the project log forum: being inspired by ch00ftech’s QR clock I made my own variation of this nice idea: A PIC32 decodes the time signal from a DCF77 receiver, calculates a QR code containing this time information, and displays it animated at 30 FPS on a ST7735R LCD. Without […]
PCB a Week 4: RetroTime
Mats continues his challenge of designing one PCB every week. In week 4 he came up with RetroTime, a digital clock with RGB LEDs in 12 tentacles extruding from the body of the PCB. Next week I’ll do a slightly more advanced project than a simple breakout. I had this idea of making a very […]
Arduino doomsday countdown clock shield
Tully wrote to us about his latest project, the Arduino doomsday clock shield. The board features six 7-segment displays counting down up to the end of the Mayan calendar. Hey Ian, I want to show off one of my recent creations, the Doomsday Clock Arduino Shield. You can use it to countdown the final hours […]
Ringo3 LED clock assembly
Community at it’s best, one forum member helping another. Matseng sent a Rino3 clock PCB to Arup, which he populated even before the Matseng got a chance to build his own. They are now debugging it together: Few days ago I received one ringo3 PCB from forum member masteng. It’s having 60+60+12 LEDs (ss,mm,hh). The […]
The Akafugu nixie clock
Here is another open source Nixie clock. It’s built with 3 boards stacked on top of each other. One for the high voltage power-supply, one for the control, and one to hold the nixies in place. Uses an Atmega328P microcontroller with Arduino bootloader and firmware preloaded. The firmware is written in Arduino, and is fully […]
Nixie clock sets time from internet, encased in concrete
Chankster built a Nixie clock that uses the NTP protocol to set the time over an internet connection. For a final touch, it was encased in concrete. Time is synchronized using the network time protocol. An ATmega keeps the time, controls the nixie tubes, and connects to the internet via the popular ENC28J60 Ethernet IC. […]
Clock with 180 RGB LEDs on home-etched circuit board
An Arduino-based clock with 180 RGB LEDs. The LEDs are driven via 12 TLC5925 1- channel constant-current addressable drivers. Its built on doublesided copper clad board using Toner transfer method. The routes aren’t smaller than 0.44mm and all vias are made for 0.8mm drilling (truly DIY). Just around 5 vias are under a component and […]
IV-11 VFD tube clock
Haris built this handsome IV-11 VFD clock and wooden case. VFD tubes are similar to Nixie tubes, but use much lower voltages. Via the forum.