I have long been looking for a way to make a word clock (although there is no shortage of clocks in our home…), but until recently I haven’t found a financially reasonable way to make one. What changed is that I recently acquired a desktop 3D printer. This dramatically expanded …
This article is a new iteration on the wall clock I made a while back. (What can I say? I like LEDs, clocks and clock made up of LEDs…) This time I used a new PCB for driving the circuit and I designed a fully 3D printable enclosure for it …
I must have thought there were not enough kinds/shapes/etc clocks in the world. Or maybe I thought: “I made one in the eighties, one about 10 years ago, so it is time for another one.” I’m not sure at this stage. What I do know is that I wanted to …
Introduction Towards the end of the ’80s, when I started out in electronics, one day I decided to make a special alarm clock: one, that, when the time comes, switches on some device in my room – be it a radio, TV or anything else. At the time microcontrollers were …
Introduction This digital clock displays the time in binary format. Binary clock s have become very popular recently, many hobbyists create their own version of it and they are even available commercially. To decode the time you need to be familiar with the binary number system and have to decode …
