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The Clock (2003)
- antirez 8y agoAwesome, btw I did not think you would need so much discrete components to do that, but probably the conversion of the counter to the digits segments is the majority of it.
- cr0sh 8y agoIt looks like DTL (diode-transistor logic) is being used; if implemented properly, quite a few parts are needed for just a NAND gate, and a BCD decoder uses a lot of them. That said, counters aren't lightweight in that arena either...
- IIAOPSW 8y agoI've had an idea that I've been pinning to build for a while. I call it "the anachronism clock". The time piece is an old fashion pendulum. This is used to generate regular electrical pulses via point contacts. This signal would go to a series of electro-mechanical counters based on drums, motors, point contacts, and regions of non-conductivity. The counters would be arranged to output their position to mock nixie tubes built from LED's and plexiglass. Once an hour a tape recorder would be activated which will play a recording of the chimes of big ben.
- cr0sh 8y agoDefinitely could be done; you'd also need an electromagnet to "pulse" the pendulum (much like the magnetic "perpetual motion" toys out there). Also - I would suggest using regular bulbs instead of LEDs. If you can deal with the higher voltages involved, neon lamps would give it a great look. Also, rather than a tape recorder, use one of those large doorbell "big ben" chimes instead (if you can find a really old one - from the 1960s or so - some of them used a similar motor/drum switched sequencer for the solenoid chime playing system). It sounds very intriguing, and probably would be cool to watch function...
- IIAOPSW 8y agoFor the nixie tube I was going to copy this design https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:880429 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:880429
- alanbernstein 8y agoI suggest naming it "anachronograph".
- Robin_Message 8y agoYou might like this clock: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock Although personally I think the gold is a bit much and doesn't tone well with the blue LEDs. I'd like to see your clock.
- JoeDaDude 8y agoI just want a Turing Bombe Clock: https://www.bad-dog-designs.co.uk/contemporary-clocks/bombe/ https://www.bad-dog-designs.co.uk/contemporary-clocks/bombe/
- hazeii 8y agoComing at it from the other side, not too hard to make a long-case ('grandfather') clock using the per-second signal from MSF (WWV, DCF etc) to drive the pendulum and so lock the clock to 'atomic' time. An old 6 volt relay coil worked for me, main issue is needing a local backup oscillator stable enough to cope with period of signal loss/power outages. Obviously simpler to use GPS 1PPS to derive the drive signal but that's a challenge to pick up with a coil of wire and a capacitor.
- segfaultbuserr 8y agoAnother idea: synthesize a 32.768 kHz clock signal from the 1 PPS pulse of the pendulum by PLL, and use this clock to power a modern microcontroller to drive the 7-segment LEDs and show the current time.
- amelius 8y agoWhy not take a pendulum, point a camera at it, and have a Deep Learning network determine the swing count?
- amelius 8y agoDoes it respect daylight saving time, and leap seconds?
- augusto-moura 8y agoDoes any clock implement it correctly?
- dfox 8y ago5071A does leap seconds (http://leapsecond.com/notes/5071a-leapsecond.jpg http://leapsecond.com/notes/5071a-leapsecond.jpg) and IIRC even can do timezones and DST (although that seems like a feature of somewhat questionable utility). Whether you want to call such an device a "clock" is another issue ;)
- nwillson 8y agobeautiful.
- londons_explore 8y agoWhy are there so many diodes? There totally seem to be more than necessary... Are you biasing transistors with diodes? That doesn't sound like it's going to work well as temperature changes...
- jonsen 8y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode–transistor_logic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode–transistor_logic
- ninjastar99 8y agoIs this for sale? Take my money!
- trixie_ 8y agoHe has another project - the tower, which looks amazing http://techno-logic-art.com/tower.htm http://techno-logic-art.com/tower.htm Anyone know if there's a video of it in action?
- exrook 8y agoI found the creator's HN account, looks like he planned on making one at some point: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Technologicart https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Technologicart Maybe he'll see this post and finish the video :)
- vespakoen 8y agoI really like the clocks made by Maarten Baas, it's basically a 24 hour long video of a guy "updating the time" every minute. He has made a couple different ones: http://maartenbaas.com/real-time http://maartenbaas.com/real-time
- clort 8y agoThat is really cool. I also liked "The Clock", a 24hr film montage with every scene showing a clock with the correct time. I didn't see much of it but it was mesmerising to watch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film)
- nine_k 8y agoThat's a time piece I would call a piece of modern art, here "art" being used in the most direct and non-ironic sense, as it was used in Renaissanse times.
- Waterluvian 8y agoHow long might one expect it to work before something fails?
- kwhitefoot 8y agoWhy no video?
- needle0 8y agoHow can the clock utilize a 120V 60Hz AC signal when it's only taking power from a 12V DC Adapter?
- jloughry 8y agoIt could be a 12V AC adapter. Not too common, but they do exist. Four of the myriad diodes would be connected in a bridge rectifier to convert the AC to DC. (I don't see any smoothing capacitors though....) Depending on how creative you wanted to get, a clock might be designed to run directly on a pulsating rectified DC supply. That would give you a sort of baseband embedded clock signal at 120 Hz. Or use two half-wave rectifiers and design the whole clock based on trinary logic, +12V/0/-12V. Realistically, since the mains connection is hidden behind the frame, it would be easy to tap off internally a connection to the 12V AC signal from the secondary of the transformer, before it gets rectified and filtered to DC.
- ncmncm 8y agoMakes me wonder, why not use decimal counters? If designed cleverly enough, they could drive the segments directly. Each digit would have 7 latches, one for each segment, and cycle through just 10 of the otherwise possible 128 states. It would be ironic to use clockless logic, making simpler latches.