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With zero knowledge of electronics or hardware, the product description seems to outline why it's interesting pretty clearly (and quickly; the lede is not burie
by lucideer 5y ago
With zero knowledge of electronics or hardware, the product description seems to outline why it's interesting pretty clearly (and quickly; the lede is not buried).
TL;DR:
> Novelty clocks:
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> Whacky clock - ticks once a second, but on a random tenth-of-a-second, so it's arhythmic.
> Wavy clock - tick frequency is proportional to a sine wave. Sort of looks like it's "surging."
> Lazy clock - picks a random interval and then ticks that number of seconds very quickly and then just stops.
> Crazy clock - runs at three different speeds - slow, normal or fast. Much more subtle than it sounds.
> Vetinari clock - runs slightly slow, but adds a periodic "stutter" tick to make up for it.
> Warpy clock - runs 10% fast for 12 hours, then 10% slow for 12 hours. Makes the days just fly by.
> Early clock - keeps time anywhere between 0 and 10 minutes fast. For those who like to set their watch ahead to avoid being late. This clock keeps you from trying to "compensate," because you never know how early it is at the moment.
> Tuney clock - ticks normally most of the time, but occasionally will tick out "songs," like shave-and-a-haircut, or SOS in morse...
- Cd00d 5y agoI do wish there was more detail on the "more subtle" crazy clock. I'm having trouble imaging what it means. It may be obvious, but I missed it - do I buy one kit, but then I can load all these firmwares, or is the goal to have me buy one kit per novelty?
- bshep 5y agoFrom the hackaday link you can load alternate firmawares but its not so easy due to the coil potentially interfering with the programmer.
- IIAOPSW 5y ago>I do wish there was more detail on the "more subtle" crazy clock. I'm having trouble imaging what it means. In more subtle mode the clock just works normally. The crazy part is the shared delusion of time. Subtle isn't it?