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Building A Sliding Tile Clock

Hackers like making clocks, and we like reporting on them around these parts. Particularly if they’ve got a creative mechanism that we haven’t seen before. This fine timepiece from [gooikerjh] fits ...

Building a Flip Clock Part 1 | From Breadboard to Operation Check

IntroductionA flip clock is a mechanical clock that displays the time by flipping plates. In the past, flip-style displays were commonly seen at train stations and airports, and this project applies ...
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Jeff Bezos spent $42 million building a 10,000-year cuckoo clock that ticks once a year — calls it a ‘symbol for long-term thinking’

Most people struggle to plan next year’s vacation. Amazon an d Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos helped build a clock designed to outlive entire civilizations. During an appearance on the "Lex Fridman ...
Science Daily

Scientists build a nuclear clock that could make atomic clocks obsolete

Scientists in Vienna have achieved a major breakthrough in timekeeping by creating the world’s first self-stabilizing nuclear clock, a technology that could eventually surpass even the most precise ...
Hackaday

Shadow Clock Shows The Time On The Wall

What if you build a clock that displayed the time not just on its own, but in its shadows as well? [Lewis] from [DIY Machines] has done just that, with a nifty 3D-printed shadow clock build. The clock ...
Design News

Building a Wall/Desk Clock With a Customized Arduino and NeoPixel Displays

Every maker needs a geeky wall clock and the geekiest way to get one is to build your own. With so many modular and open-source options, building your own decorative clock is far from the most ...
American Physical Society

Building a Scalable Ion Clock with a Coulomb Crystal

Researchers have built an optical clock using an array of trapped ions—an architecture that can be scaled up to boost the clock’s precision. Improving the precision of optical clocks depends on ...
EurekAlert!

Building a safer and more affordable nuclear clock

In the quest for ultra-precise timekeeping, scientists have turned to nuclear clocks. Unlike optical atomic clocks—which rely on electronic transitions—nuclear clocks utilize the energy transitions in ...
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Jeff Bezos Spent $42 Million Building a 10,000-Year Cuckoo Clock That Ticks Once a Year — Calls It a ‘Symbol for Long-Term Thinking’

Most people struggle to plan next year's vacation. Amazon an d Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos helped build a clock designed to outlive entire civilizations. "The 10,000-year clock is an idea conceived ...