Collaborate Disseminate
There’s a good chance you’ve seen “Nixie clocks” on the Internet that replace the classic cold cathode tubes with similarly sized LCD panels. The hook is that the LCDs can …read more Continue reading Recreating a Popular Faux-Nixie Clock
Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeepers we have, losing only seconds across billions of years. But apparently that’s not accurate enough – nuclear clocks could steal their thunder, speeding up GPS and the internet, among other things. Now, scie… Continue reading World-first nuclear clock prototype could outperform atomic clocks
Time zones are a complicated but necessary evil. Humans like the numbers on the clock to vaguely match up with what the sun is doing in the sky outside. To …read more Continue reading Globe-Shaped World Clock Is A 3D-Printed Mechanical Marvel
So many are the clock projects which cross the Hackaday threshold, that it’s very rare indeed to see something that hasn’t already been done. We think we’ve not seen a …read more Continue reading A Lenticular Clock Spells Out The Hours
Although marketing folk and laypeople may credit [Steve Jobs] as the man behind the success of Apple, those in the tech world know the real truth that without [Steve Wozniak] …read more Continue reading Single-Stepping the 6502 Processor
Iron Man was the film that kicked off the Marvel craze, and is widely regarded to be better than a lot of the movies that followed. If you’re a big fan …read more Continue reading Iron Man Arc Reactor Clock Is A Stylish Piece
Scientists have developed the most precise and accurate atomic clock to date – if you ran it for twice the current age of the universe, it would only be off by one second. This could not only improve services like GPS, but help scientists probe how gra… Continue reading World’s most accurate atomic clock off by 1 second every 30 billion years
[Kelton] from Build Some Stuff decided to create a clock that not only had kinetic elements, but a healthy dose of Rube Goldberg inspiration. The result is a work in …read more Continue reading Intentionally Overly-Complex Clock is Off to a Good Start
If you’ve ever seen artifacts on a digital picture of a computer monitor, or noticed an unsettling shifting pattern on a TV displaying someone’s clothes which have stripes, you’ve seen …read more Continue reading Using the Moiré Effect for Unique Clock Face
There are plenty of cool clocks out there, and maps by their very essence are cool, too. But a map that’s also a clock — or is it a clock …read more Continue reading A Look Inside the Geochron Clock