Collaborate Disseminate
Smart phones have taken the place of a lot of different devices especially as they get more and more powerful. GPS, music and video player, email, and of course a …read more Continue reading Saving a Clock Radio with an LM8562
A kitchen timer is one of those projects that’s well defined enough to have a clear goal, but allows plenty of room for experimentation with functionality and aesthetics. [Hggh]’s exploration …read more Continue reading Printing a Brutalist Kitchen Timer
Although the cutoff for saying ‘Happy New Year’ is somewhere around today, there’s still plenty of time to reminisce about 2022 and all that we accomplished. Hackaday alum [Jeremy Cook] …read more Continue reading Triple Zone Clock Tells Time In Style
[MakingDevices] has created a simple stopwatch that makes for a nice introduction to surface mount electronic design and assembly. The project is open source hardware (OSHW) certified, with Gerbers, KiCAD …read more Continue reading Add an OSHW Certified Stopwatch to Your Toolkit
Sometimes you need to display a number nice and large, making it easily readable at a good distance. [Lewis] has just the thing for that: a big expandable 7-segment display. …read more Continue reading You Can Build A Giant 7-Segment Display Of Your Very Own
While 7-segment displays are all well and good, they’re considered a bit old hat these days. This project from [Matt Deeds] brings them screaming into the future, though, sporting every …read more Continue reading RGB 7-Segment Display Module Glows In All The Colours
Utter the words “7-segment display” amongst hackers and you’ll typically get people envisaging the usual LED and LCD versions that we all come across in our daily lives. However, mechanical …read more Continue reading Building 7-Segment Displays With LEGO
Student and hacker [prusteen] recently fell in love with the Pomodoro method of time management. That’s where you concentrate on your task for 25 minutes, then take a five-minute break, …read more Continue reading World’s Cutest Pomodoro Timer Is Also a Clock
If you look around your desk right now, odds are you’ll see a 7-segment display or two showing you some vital information like the time or today’s weather. But think …read more Continue reading What’s Cooler Than A 7-Segment Display? A 7200-Segment Display!
Over the years we’ve seen many takes on the 7-segment display. Among the most interesting are the mechanical versions of what is most often an LED-based item. This week’s offering …read more Continue reading A Whole Lot of Stepper Motors Make the Most Graceful 7-Segment Displays