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***** awesome!

imagine that as your alarm clock

That is supposed to be 12' not 21' sorry about the error

"Welcome to the Spark Fun Center for the Farsighted. The time is currently..."

I so need one of these on my roof

Dugg for concept!! Very cool. You couldn't fall asleep with that on in your room. You should make it an alarm clock. A train horn is probably the most appropriate for the alarm itself. lmao

"Beat that bed side alarm!"

My bedside alarm is smaller than a bread box and costs $10. I think we have a winner.

Make it with yellow light instead of green, then your own bedroom can look like a scene from 24!

Nice! Digg+!

Can I buy one?

OK - that's just plain cool.

Nice project!! Very well done indeed. But he needs to make the wiring on those walls a bit more neat :P Also nice thing with the CAT-cables.

SWEET!
I want one!

As a former contractor, the cables dangling against the wall drive me crazy.

The first thing I would do is grab some wire ties and cbale clips and make the cable runs straight, or, better, fish the cables through the wall.

Make STRAIGHT LINES with RIGHT ANGLES. That looks a lot better.

Going to need Sunglasses to sleep

fair play - now i want to go and make one! Just need to find a wall here big enough...

This is not quite portable, so gps is a little much. Then again the whole project is about making a freakin huge clock, so why not gps! This should be mounted on a van. It could be like a ice-cream truck, but sell clocks.

Sure, the display is truly cool, but I want the details on the clock electronics themselves, dang it! The only thing they included in TFA, as far as I could tell, was details on the display driver circuitry. I couldn't find anything at all on the GPS-slaved timing stuff.

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totally useless, and uses geek technology. Totally +digg-able :)

neat project, but could be profitable to sell to a niche crowd of die hard "24" fans

love it

I would program that thing to count down to some random time.. Just so when people ask what it's counting down to you could look psychotic and say "You'll see. You'll all see."

With a clock that size, people would actually worry.

Now we wait for someone like ThinkGeek to market this for those of us who aren't so much into the do-it-yourself thing... Perhaps a half-sized but still huge alternate version would be nice too. Also, let us choose which color to use.

Brilliant!!
Have bookmarked the site for future use.

sparkfun.com bank account = digg effect :-D

great idea!!! although, it's a bit pricey though...

That won't quite work too well in any room in my house though.

Holy crap is that thing bright. It would suck having to work on the PCs right below it.

It would be pretty much impossible to focus on anything else other than that clock!

I'd love to build one but good grief I'm not good enough with electronics to build that controller. Anything pre-made that will work?

I always seem to be 100 ns late for work. When i get my hands on one of these, that won't happen anymore!

Why a wall clock? Why can't we have a 12' wrist watch with automatic time setting through GPS?

Someone has waaaaaaay too much free time on their hands. Very cool!

gps on a huge wall clock seems kinda ... useless?

woudlnt it be easier just to write down its gps location on the damn thing? not like ur gonna move it around much... ;P

cool tho

The thing needs 92 of thoes LED strips? At the retailer suggested in the article, you'd be spending over $350 for the LED strips alone, not to mention all the other stuff. Its cool, but way too expensive. You'd have to be really into clocks to justify building this one.

Pretty neat project. A big clock like this would be nice in a big store. It also woudln't be too hard to scale the size of the digits larger (3 light bars) or smaller (1 light bar).

However, using the common positive on one of the lines of the CAT5, it looks like it carries about 420mA. That appears to be just under what the 24AWG of the wire can carry, so, lucked out. (Adding more light bars per segment would require thicker wire, in addition to a slightly different controller design...)

Of course you could make your own LED arrays to cut down on the cost, too.