Hard Drive Clock

This is a persistence of vision clock I built from an old hard drive. It uses a slot cut into the platter and pulses of light from underneath to give the illusion of clock hands. It has some jitter problems I am working on, but otherwise is working as I had hoped. I used a PIC16F88 to control the timing of the lights.

I got the idea from this page:
http://alan-parekh.com/projects/hard-drive-clock/

And here is my page with more details:
http://www.ian.org/HD-Clock/

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hard
• drive
• clock
• diy
• electronics

[GReddySTi05]

Dude its obvious he had some problems in the past so he's going back in time to fix the problem...XD

[davik42]

Holy cock that's awesome.

[WaWoWieWa]

seconds in turbo mode :)

[stalker7d7]

Counter-clockwise just became clockwise!

[olegcci]

hey you are going back into time!



[givitallawy]

will this tell me how deep the fish are?

[KorexMilas]

whata fuck!

[KorexMilas]

bad way -.-

[draugfriend]

OMG there's a lot of flags of my country (Lithuania) :D

[Corpor3aL]

dude! a CLOCK is supposed to rotate CLOCKWISE! moron...

[brandon1976]

i might be a little more concerned about the running water i hear lol

[Naarden4ever]

its running around so quick that the earth is tuning around the wrong way!

the sun will come up in the south-west.