Telling Time Used to be a Ball
If you watch the New Year’s festivities from New York, you know that they mark midnight with the dropping of a big, gaudy ball. You might assume this was just …read more Continue reading Telling Time Used to be a Ball
Category Archives: timekeeping
A Cyberpunk Pocketwatch
For a time, pocketwatches were all the rage, but they were eventually supplanted by the wristwatch. [abe] built this cyberpunk Lock’n’Watch to explore an alternate history for the once trendy …read more Continue reading A Cyberpunk Pocketwatch
Geochron: Another Time, Another Timeless Tale
The Geochron World Time Indicator is a clock that doubles as a live map of where the sun is shining on the Earth. Back in its day, it was a …read more Continue reading Geochron: Another Time, Another Timeless Tale
Timekeeping For Distributed Computers
Ask any programmer who has ever had to deal with timekeeping on a computer, and they’re likely to go on at length about how it can be a surprisingly difficult …read more Continue reading Timekeeping For Distributed Computers
Mechanical Timekeeping Hack Chat with Clickspring
Join us on Wednesday, February 3 at noon Pacific for the Mechanical Timekeeping Hack Chat with Clickspring!
The reckoning of the passage of time has been of vital importance to humans pretty much for all our history, but for most …read more
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Antique Pocket Watch Project Updates Antique Pocket Watch
Here at Hackaday we have a bit of a preoccupation with timepieces. Maybe it’s the deeply personal connection to an object you wear on your body, or the need for ultimate reliability. Perhaps it’s just a fascination with the notion of time itself. Whatever the case, we don’t seem to …read more
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Waking Up To Classic Soundgarden Screaming
In a project that was really only slighly less creepy before the singer’s untimely death in 2017, this alarm clock built by [Rafael Mizrahi] awakens its user to a random selection of Chris Cornell’s signature screams. Not content to be limited to just the audio component of the experience, he contained all of the hardware within a styrofoam head complete with a printed out facsimile of the singer’s face.
An Arduino Uno coupled with a seven segment LED display provides the clock itself, which is located in the base. There’s no RTC module, so the Arduino is doing its best …read more