For me the interesting parts of the (kinda hate this term) "maker revolution" are share-ability and remixability. The community and sharing sites are an integra

For me the interesting parts of the (kinda hate this term) "maker revolution" are share-ability and remixability. The community and sharing sites are an integral part of this. So you can have lots of people who've never met quickly iterate on a design. Then yet other people customise or use it in unexpected ways. The end result would be not a clock, but a species of mutant clocks spreading across the world.