led pocketwatch v1 0 demo

An analog-style LED pocketwatch. Details at http://www.eng.yale.edu/pep5/pocket_watch.html

My grandfather was a horologist. When he passed away in 2005 I inherited from him a collection of broken pocketwatches. I felt it would be a fitting tribute to him to produce an electronic movement in place of one of the broken ones he'd never had the time to fix.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• hacking
• LED
• pocketwatch

[rockintom99]

Inspired by the Corpus Clock, are we?

Awesome watch, I would buy one in a heartbeat if they were for sale.

[KuriositatElec]

Actually, I started this project before the Corpus Clock was unveiled, but they beat me to the punch. If you check out the website (linked in the notes) you'll see that the idea is, in fact, well travelled.

[18CaStRaDoMiS89]

No offense, but there is no way in hell that I would of done that to a real antique pocket watch. I can't see all of those old internal components you gutted out easily replaceable.

You should of just fixed it and did the LED mod on a cheap modern one.

[KuriositatElec]

Rest assured, this movement was impractical to repair, which is why my grandfather never took the time to fix it. However, the movement was carefully extracted without doing any violence to the workings, just in case. No pocket watches were harmed in the making of this project.

[Atsumi]

cyberpunk meets steampunk!

Wow, that is so freaking awesome! The ingenuity and creativity of some people seriously amazes me

[RagingGear]

WHEN ARE WE GETTING THESE?!?!

[wandering1coyote]

I also would be interested in knowing if you're still working on these... because I also would totally buy one, even as a kit (would love some different colored LEDs though)

Seriously. All my money. Take it. :x

[TheDigitalJanitor]

Are you still working on this? I want one!

[ElginPocketwatch]

you should make a dial where you can see the lights going through it or something, instead of looking at that boring green chip thing.

[Simsker]

The music was kindda scary.But still...awesome work!!!:D

[thebloddyzorrow]

creativity has no limits

[dimputhegreat]

@KuriositatElec nice concept of steampunk pocket watch.is it very accurate ? and how loud is the alarm ?is it water resistant ?thanks.

[joeymagaines]

beautiful tribute

[ElginPocketwatch]

@KuriositatElec Good point. but you didn't just toss the broken movement right?

[Depapepe98]

This is a deadringer.