DIY Hard Drive Clock 2

Posted by Matthew Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:29:00 GMT

The hard drive clock is quite possibly the best diy electronics paperweight I have come across. Even though it has no particular use, it is uber cool. The clock requires a PIC 16f628 microcontroller, and old hard disk, and some miscellaneous components.

Unfortunately, the design lacks a real time clock. After a few days, you’re going to be late. He also mentions adding a fancier hourly chime. Personally, I think an old school computer beep and some circling LEDs would be perfect.

HDD Clock on HDD Clock off

Hopefully I can find some time to convert my old 800MB drive into a $300 clock. It would be perfect for my office because the bedroom is definitely out of consideration.

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    tepid Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:41:38 GMT

    A link that actually works: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umparekh/hard_drive_clock.html

    Found you on /.

    Cool blog.

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    Matthew Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:55:46 GMT

    Interesting, I have not seen anyone coming to this site from /. yet. Markdown kind of slaughtered your url so I fixed that and edited the article.

    Thanks for the help. Hopefully my head will be back on my shoulders after the first week of school is over!

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