Nixie tubes, while built during the vacuum tube era of the mid-20th century, still exist in a niche among hackers. It’s quite the task to get them up and running due to a number of quirks, so getting ...
You could cruise the Internet bazaars for a talking clock but you’ll never find one as awesome as this. Just look at it… even if it didn’t work it would be awesome. [Art] certainly lives up to his ...
Commercial smart alarm clocks run $50 to $150 for a device that does exactly what the manufacturer decided it should do. You can't expand it or change it, and what you bought is what you get. Mine, on ...
As a rule, Donald Saff doesn’t collect clocks he can’t see inside of. It’s the harmonic entanglement of gears—and the skill needed to craft them—that first lured him to horology, the study of ...
Adapted from "THE BELLS OF OLD TOKYO: Meditations on Time and a City" by Anna Sherman. Published by Picador August 13th 2019. Copyright © 2019 by Anna Sherman. All ...
Clockmaker James Borden and his sculptural wooden timekeepers make a compelling argument for the humanities. The Iowa-based craftsman attended Dana College, a small liberal arts school in Blair, ...
The project aims to build a digital clock by using an Arduino while lighting up a group of discrete LEDs wherein each segment is driven by transistor since they require more power. The project aims to ...
In a not-so-common breakthrough towards redefining the basic unit of time, a Chinese research team at the University of Science and Technology has unveiled a groundbreaking optical clock that provides ...
A new program from Amazon called Build It lets customers choose to back a new product, and if it gets enough support within 30 days, Amazon will build it. Customers will get charged only if the ...