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I like the design of this clock by designers Biegert and Funk. It tells the approximate time by illuminating the correct words. Could be a fun re-make!
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Qlocktwo clock tells time with words
Posted by Matt Mets |
Sep 4, 2009 06:08 PM
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I have been wondering for a couple of days now about this project, since I know 0 about coding/programing I wonder, how hard is to program a controller to manage 22 leds (words) plus another 4 (minutes)??? the face can be laser cut and then framed. My first tough was 110 led's 10x11 so you could control them individually for use with different languages, but rather keep it simple....
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It would be pretty easy, I guess, you could probably do it with an Arduino and a couple of ICs.
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1249993886/
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21 IO pins would be needed to do it "the easy way", or fewer pins if you wanted to charlie plex it, which makes building the array and the software a tad more complex. a 28 pin or 40 pin micro-controller would have no problem.
use a look-up table to associate the twelve hours and then "fifths" after / to the hours with the different led combinations.
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damn, I just clicked through and caught a wiff of the price: $1266 USD for a plastic clock, roughly 18 inch square and almost 9 lbs.
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Wow, $1266! I bet you could make one for under $100 plus a few hours of your time. A PIC or other micro of your choice, a couple shift registers, and LEDs should total no more than $5 for the electronics package.
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please somebody make this and make a tutorial for it. i hate the exuberant price, but the design is nice. i cant figure out, what all the wordings would be though?
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"i cant figure out, what all the wordings would be though? "
ITSYQUARTER (Apostrophe t)
TWENTYFIVEG
THIRTYFIVEX
HALFTENWQTO
PASTXISEVEN
ONETWOTHREE
FOURFIVESIX
EIGHTELEVEN
NINEUTWELVE
TENLFOCLOCK (Apostrophe o)
;-)
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Made a project similar to this. Warmer, more analogue aesthetic--more personality. Check it out:
http://www.nicholaswallen.com/tick-talk
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Oooh, thats awesome! Thanks for sharing!!!
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Check it out, there is an instructable for this now.
http://www.instructables.com/id/A-Word-Clock/
Enjoy!
~The Bacon Man
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Yes! And he says he was inspired by this post, too!
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I made 2 versions of this: one in HTML that runs in your browser, and one in python that runs in a text console.
http://tinylittlelife.org/?p=224
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Nice! I really like the hanging version.
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