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NES Alarm Clock

mavrinac.com — "So I built a funky alarm clock out of an old Nintendo console. Why? Because I was at Value Village with my girlfriend and my sister, and while they were browsing through miles of clothing the only thing of interest I could find were two broken Nintendo units without paddles, and I had to do something with them."

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  • dementio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've been wondering what to do with my non-working NES for months. Great digg
  • luke--, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I can just see it...waking up in the mornign and slamming the hinge shut instead of hitting the snooze button.
  • underburn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Very Cool
  • Fizban119, on 10/12/2007, -5/+01337sauce.
  • skinner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sweet
  • Fly1m1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Easy but cool.....digg
  • steal_apps01, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0At Value Village with you sister and girlfriend sure you where buddy, what did you DO! with them after. If you know what I mean
  • F1234K, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0paddles?
  • garretble, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0No digg because he said "paddles." But neat nonetheless.
  • jizzimmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Elitist Nintendo fanboys hah.

    Anyways, that's easily the most awesome alarm clock I've ever seen.
  • Plaguefox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1... paddles? Not to be elite, seriously, but is this a term used ... in a particular vocabulary? I haven't heard controllers called paddles in a long, long time.

    Imagine the absurdity of calling X360's controllers paddles. ;)

    The actual digg is well worth it. :)
  • skooma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1wow, paddles? paddles is like, old, old school terminology.
  • HebrewHammer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0crazzy cracker
  • definiteform, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ill take one.
  • ezod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Everyone seems to be getting stuck on the fact that I called the controllers "paddles," and we're too cool to call them paddles anymore. The hulking masses with 93 buttons we have on modern systems don't much look like paddles, but back in 1986, I assure you, all the cool kids were calling them paddles.

    Anyway, thanks for digging my stuff! I think now I'll finish modding the PADDLE to control it.
  • I8PP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't get it. I think it's only a bit better than the PlayStation that was made into a lamp. The PC and the DVD player made better use of the NES case. Sorry.
  • charliechaplan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool - yes

    freaking massive alarm clock - yes

    would make one myself - no (too lazy)

    respect to maker of this case mod - somewhat yes

    diggable - yes
  • Jolene, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*calms self down* Man...I was about to blow when I read the title. "How could you rip apart an NES?!"....but...it was broken...so...heh...

    Nice mod. If I was a DYI type and had a broken NES I'd do this my self.

    +Digg.
  • I8PP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't mean to insult the skill in making this as it's more complicated than the PC and the DVD mods, but I think there should be some more bits in there other than the clock - how about a clock radio
  • Kissitfatty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you could get laid with that clock
  • R4wBon3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ezod - for clarification, in the pre-joypad controller days, there of course was the most popular 'joystick' and then 'paddles' were before that from the Pong days; a dial used to move a bar around on the screen to simulate a paddle in table-tennis-like games. The Atari 2600 (VCS) often came with a set of paddles ina bundle since many of the games were very simple and only required 2 directional input. Paddles is incorrect for anything NES related - I don't even remember an input device for the NES that was paddle-like.
  • ezod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I know, I know, but people called them paddles anyway. Maybe it's just a Canadian thing.
  • squenix1221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool project...but it probably isnt worth doing all the wiring for it for just an alarm clock.

    +digg
  • molecool, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0let me see - the average cost of a digital alarm clock these days: $10.-

    does this dude ever get laid? LOL - hey, whatever - more for me :-)
  • I8PP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In England we call them enjoyment execution interfaces
  • ezod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sure do.
  • knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1THEY'RE ***** CONTROLLERS.

    It's like when black people who play xbox live call maps 'boards'...

    Nice clock though, >_>
  • ascheinberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sweet, but, emmm... isn't that a little impractical for use? The opening is about 1/2 inch.

    Either way, my NES still works!
  • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It's cool enough, but it seems.. i dunno.. unambitious, perhaps? I mean, basically he took an alarm clock and replaced the case with a busted NES's case. Okay, 9 out of 10 for retro style, but 2 out of 10 for creativity. C'mon, man... wow me. Make the thing play CD's too. MP3-CD's at that. The slot looks like a great place to front load CD's. Build a snooze button on top the thing. Make it play music. Hell, make it have a video output and play DVD's too.

    Putting one thing inside another only barely qualifies as a "mod" these days. You can do better, I know it.
  • mrFREEZE, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"No digg because he sad 'paddles'..."

    Wow, you are easily one of the biggest douches here on digg. You sure you're not a slashdotter and wandered in here by accident?
  • Kissitfatty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0"It's like when black people who play xbox live call maps 'boards'..."
    Get out of digg you crazy racist
  • regedit2D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2who cares that he calls them paddles? Everybody has their own terms for things, so leave him to it.
  • Abyss_908, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pretty cool but also an easy mod. I think you could just remove the plastic covering of the alarm clock and then drill a hole for the cord out the backend and just tape the alarm clock components inside. One of the diggers a few posts up is right. This isn't a mod. It is as much of a mod as moving your old CDs from a cardboard box to a Transformers lunch box. The best NES mods are the PC ones. Then there are the DVD/CD ones. I don't think it would be that hard to fit a PS2 in there.
  • Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I know a guy that insists on calling them joysticks...

    It annoys the crap out of me but hey..
    I like this, good stuff. :)
  • Odo08, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I thought it was cool.

    Although, a really cool casemod/hack would be making a functional computer look like the freaky retro-yet-futuristic computers in the movie "Brazil".

    That movie is more relevant today than in 1985.
  • cptn_cardboard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0aaaaaasomwe
  • AKron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Do those fancy game paddles still use four buttons to move around, like the old Atari joystick, but without the stick? I never understood why that is. I like a mouse's variable input, rather than LEFT! RIGHT! STOP! GO!

    hehe - I said "paddles"

    DIGG!
  • echosierratwo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Love it!
  • KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"you could get laid with that clock"

    Rather you could get laid next to that clock lol.
  • tidu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"It's like when black people who play xbox live call maps 'boards'..."

    Aside from the racist part, I thought it was pretty funny.
  • ryanlynds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@abyss
    did you read the page at all? it's a lot more than just "taping components inside." sheesh.
  • mcgirt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anything NES rocks. This mod is fscking leet.
  • Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0its not a nes alarm clock its a clocktendo or a nintenclock or maybe a clock entertainment system
  • Darth_tater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol very easy to do but still he did a very good job, i like it.

    i name you "nintendigital"

    lol
  • wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Decent, but pretty kludgy. You have to manually short the controller ports to set it, so more of a nice display piece than a practical clock. Neat, though.
  • BrianHolt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what a waist of an NES. fixing the NES would have been more valuable.
  • kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 Not a very usefull mod. Seems like someone with to much time on their hands.
  • roastedbagel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome dude, good work.. +digg for sure
  • automagically, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0His instructions were hard to understand, and the writing in was vague and poor. That is probably why it wasn't included in the magazine. The editors would've had to rewrite the whole thing. Having a Nintendo alarm clock would be cool, I'd need to follow a different article though.
  • ezod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm sorry you found my writing "in" to be vague and poor, but the site isn't intended as an instruction manual for building your own... you know, this kind of project isn't fun at all if you're just following what someone else has already done.
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