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- Galaxion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Make it with yellow light instead of green, then your own bedroom can look like a scene from 24!
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I 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. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Dugg 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
- Dradis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"Welcome to the Spark Fun Center for the Farsighted. The time is currently..."
- antoni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8imagine that as your alarm clock
- pilotmike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8As 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. - secretagent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It would be like that seinfeld episode with the red light from the chicken place. You couldn't sleep if you wanted to, unless you were drunk
- Petronski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Finally an alarm clock I can see without my glasses.
Hell, I bet I can see that thing without even opening my eyes. - Sofa_King_Jank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You'd be 'Clark Griswald' all year long.
- SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Make STRAIGHT LINES with RIGHT ANGLES. That looks a lot better."
This is why the people that build the house aren't the ones who decorate it. - CatFood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You'll need a date as well, then you'll know when Google Earth's satellite takes the next photos of your house :) (Yes, I know the satellite is actually Iconos, and is not owned by Google....)
- b0nde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Nice 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.
- MrDolomite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4totally useless, and uses geek technology. Totally +digg-able :)
- Brutis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3neat project, but could be profitable to sell to a niche crowd of die hard "24" fans
- Scourge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I so need one of these on my roof
- neogeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Replace the LOST clock with that one and more of them would have stayed around to punch the codes in.
- jnorris441, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"Beat that bed side alarm!"
My bedside alarm is smaller than a bread box and costs $10. I think we have a winner. - DFchoke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I always seem to be 100 ns late for work. When i get my hands on one of these, that won't happen anymore!
- captaindan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The current time is the payload of a GPS satellite transmission (along with a satellite almanac), so a GPS-driven clock just uses the time reported from the satellites. Almost any GPS receiver will report the current time, which is probably why they didn't mention it. A basic receiver with NMEA-formatted output will include the time in the GPGGA, GPGLL, and GPRMC sentences.
- Petronski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's hilarious.
- wihtwolf1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Going to need Sunglasses to sleep
- sgtkillmore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2heh don't you mean nearsighted?
- kc7gr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sure, 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.
:grumblegrumblemumble: - ExtremeSkier444, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Can I buy one?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That won't quite work too well in any room in my house though.
- spdorsey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2OK - that's just plain cool.
- dmoffitt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1love it
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Brilliant!!
Have bookmarked the site for future use.
sparkfun.com bank account = digg effect :-D - CandySnatch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2lmao! - you got there just before me!!
- wayjer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3That is supposed to be 12' not 21' sorry about the error
- jet3004, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Nice! Digg+!
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't forget that beeping sounds. :) If someone important dies, make it silent!
- DMBDan85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd never miss a class again! or better yet, never sleep...that thing is so bright
- theundone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'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?
- unamas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1great idea!!! although, it's a bit pricey though...
- jovet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty 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. - OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why a wall clock? Why can't we have a 12' wrist watch with automatic time setting through GPS?
- ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Holy crap is that thing bright. It would suck having to work on the PCs right below it.
- captaindan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1gxti: If you're talking about the almanac data, you're sort of right, but I suspect you're just making ***** up.
- thecoolestcow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like this one:
"I now hate Styrofoam. If you want to replicate any part of this project, prepare to have little white balls all over your work area."
How random and funny. It's got its own paragraph :p Good advice. - Firethorne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The 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.
- tj9991, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It doesn't use GPS to get the location of itself, it gets the time with amazing accuracy.
- iDude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It would be pretty much impossible to focus on anything else other than that clock!
- challahc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This 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.
- challahc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wow, i would liek to learn more about this. What is this "satellite" that holds gigantic atomic clocks?
- DFchoke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awsome idea for normal size wrist watch with automatic GPS/time sync for those who travel a lot.
- ChrisGranger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now 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.
- justice7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1gps 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 - tmibiker2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2SWEET!
I want one! - adamkmccarthy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0fair play - now i want to go and make one! Just need to find a wall here big enough...
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