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September 19, 2023 Kristina Panos 2 Views 3D printed fascinator, 3D printed hat, clock, sea urchin, sea urchin hats, tide clock

Time and Tide Are One Thing

The rise of 3D printing has given us incredible things, from awesome tchotchkes to intricate chocolates to useful things like spare body parts. But none has been so vital to

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July 9, 2023 Bryan Cockfield 16 Views 3d printed, ball bearing, clock, escapement, kitchen, rolling ball, time-keeping, timer

Clock Escapement Uses Rolling Balls

The escapement mechanism has been widely used for centuries in mechanical clocks. It is the mechanism by which a clock controls the release of stored energy, allowing it to advance

Clever Optics Make Clock’s Digits Float in Space

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May 10, 2023 Robin Kearey 43 Views AIRR, clock, holographic display, LED display

Clever Optics Make Clock’s Digits Float in Space

If you’ve never heard of Aerial Imaging by Retro-Reflection, or AIRR for short, you’re probably not the only one. It’s a technique developed by researchers at Utsunomiya University that uses

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May 5, 2023 Bryan Cockfield 64 Views 3d, beam splitter, clock, ESP32, gcode, hologram, microcontroller, model, prism

Holograms Display Time With ESP32

Holograms and holographic imagery are typically viewed within the frame of science fiction, with perhaps the most iconic examples being Princess Leia’s message to Obi-Wan in Star Wars, or the

Tempus Nectit, a DIY Knitting Clock with Instructions

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April 5, 2023 Navarre Bartz 97 Views clock, fiber arts, knitting, knitting clock, raspberry pi, scarf, stepper motor, textiles, time, yarn, yarn work

Tempus Nectit, a DIY Knitting Clock with Instructions

We’re no strangers to unusual clocks here at Hackaday, and some of our favorites make time a little more tangible like [Kyle Rankin]’s knitting clock. Inspired by our coverage of

Displaying the Time is Elemental With This Periodic Table Clock

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March 7, 2023 Dan Maloney 101 Views Chemistry, clock, ds1307, elements, neopixel, periodic table, rtc, ws2812b

Displaying the Time is Elemental With This Periodic Table Clock

We see a lot of clocks here at Hackaday, so many now that it’s hard to surprise us. After all, there are only so many ways to divide the day

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March 3, 2023 Al Williams 97 Views clock, LED display

PCB Makes 7 Segment Displays

Of course, there’s nothing unusual about using 7-segment displays, especially in a clock. However, [Edison Science Corner] didn’t buy displays. Instead, he fabricated them from a PCB using 0805 LEDs

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March 3, 2023 Al Williams 101 Views clock, ws2812

The Curved Nature of Time Clock

While we’re told that space-time curves, we aren’t sure that was what [andrei.erdei] was going for when he built a great-looking curved LED clock. The LEDs are courtesy of a

Decorative Clock Uses LED Strips To Beautiful Effect

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February 9, 2023 Lewin Day 134 Views clock, led, ws2812b

Decorative Clock Uses LED Strips To Beautiful Effect

Clocks used to be dowdy old things with mechanical hands and sometimes even little cuckoo birds that would pop out to chime the hour. [David] built something altogether more modern

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February 9, 2023 Dan Maloney 150 Views citizen science, clock, detection, earthquake, seismometer

Ask Hackaday: Incidental Earthquake Detection

It never seems to fail: at the very moment that human society seems to reach a new pinnacle of pettiness, selfishness, violence, and self-absorption, Mother Nature comes along and reminds