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The worlds coolest clock...

Published on 11th April 2007 by Joe Martin

Frank Bemelman's clock made from an old TRIO 20Mhz oscilloscope. Cool stuff, but which is the Snooze button?

We love mods and we love teh funnies. So, when we found this oscilloscope clock over at Make, it was like a match made in heaven.

Put together by Frank Bemelman of Frank Techniek, the clock is constructed inside an old TRIO 20Mhz oscilloscope and built around an Atmel 'AtMega8515' microcontroller. It has provisions for other programs to run on it as well if anyone fancies making some games to go on it.

In fact, we reckon a Breakout clone would work like a dream on this type of system, since using the dials to control paddle movement would be fairly simple.

Frank's website provides more details and instructions for those who want to have a go at building one themselves.

Whilst this is a fantsatic mod, the Nixie clock mods on our own forums will give this a run for its money on the coolness stakes. Or, if you're feeling just as adventurous, then making an LED clock from scratch might be just up your street.

Do you know of any cooler clock-related mod projects? Post links in our forums and share the wealth!

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DougEdey 11th April 2007, 10:51

Could make a real breakout, have a linear potentiometer :D

Hugo 11th April 2007, 11:21

Pong!!

CardJoe 11th April 2007, 11:41

Pong's been done.

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/11/vectorbased_pon.html

eek 11th April 2007, 12:02

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Originally Posted by Archangel
Pong!!

Easy+done loads of time, we had to do that at uni in our first year!

gpw111 11th April 2007, 12:09

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Originally Posted by eek
Easy+done loads of time, we had to do that at uni in our first year!

Yeh i saw that on a uni-open day i went on quite recently.

Omnituens 11th April 2007, 12:12

i wrote i binary clock program from my G15 LCD screen

even shows the date in hex

i call it the BIHEXIDECIMAL CLOCK!

CardJoe 11th April 2007, 12:26

Mmm, I love the G15. It's a shame theres so few programs and games that use the LCD screen on it.

Omnituens 11th April 2007, 14:52

i would distribute mah clock, but its written for LCDStudio, so you need that installed for it to work :(

Vid of the clock (from phone)

smoguzbenjamin 12th April 2007, 00:45

I have LCDstudio, and a G15! Would you mind maybe sending me a copy of your clock please?

Constructacon 12th April 2007, 06:43

Everyone here has old hard drives. Why not make a hard drive clock?

jrseattle 7th May 2007, 06:36

Hi, all.

Here is another oscilloscope clock. This one has a built-in Real Time Clock but can also be fed the 1 PPS signal from a GPS clock. The clock is controlled using a serial port (like COM1 on your computer) and even has a demo mode!

www.dutchtronix.com/ScopeClock.htm

http://www.dutchtronix.com/images/OClock-04-20-07-1s.JPG

jrseattle

identikit 7th May 2007, 19:13

Awesome clocks, but how about from scratch?
http://www.cathodecorner.com/
Also features a wrist watch nixie clock.