Comments on: Binary clock

By: Raiku

Raiku — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:51:26 +0000

Since there seems to be some division on whether LED projects are appropriate or not, I recommend the following: 1.) adopting a new meme to amuse ourselves, namely, “ZOMG LEDS!!1!!1!”. 2.) someone should immediately take this to an extreme by making a blinking sign of LEDS that says just that.

By: grant

grant — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:46:21 +0000

I wonder how hard it would be to design a binary clock which syncs to NTP? IANAEE, obviously.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:45:10 +0000

i like binary clocks, but why do they all count the day in regular 24:60:60 format? the best use of a binary clock would be to count the time of day by powers of two. For instance the first light would tell you if it was am or pm, the second if it was after or before 6, the third would tell you if it was after or before 3 and 9. then 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 and 10.30 etc.

By: bryan

bryan — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:08:34 +0000

humm, led’s are freaking awesome. i dunno why anyone would hate them. they provide a simple way to show something, with out having to fiddle with an lcd of any sort. keep the led hacks comming…
haha i made something like this for my seventh grade science fair, i don’t think it told the exact time, it just counted up in binary from the time it was turned on in seconds…. I dont think it was too terribly accurate, either.
sweet project, keep em comming hackaday.
-bryan

By: you know who i am

you know who i am — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:24:47 +0000

all this “i ams hate led i ams child” stuff kindah makes me wanna make a led hack, il get on it right now.
or maybe tomorrow.

By: trebuchet03

trebuchet03 — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:48:05 +0000

Is it just me… or has the community been arguing about what is allowed or not allowed to enter the realm of ‘hackdome’ a lot recently?

Really, it just misses the point… is it so hard to appreciate the work of someone else (perhaps give advice if you’ve done something similar)? Flame me/this if you disagree — just put aside the superiority complex…

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:32:21 +0000

I don’t see how LEDs aren’t cool. Humans are naturally attracted to light, like fire for instance…

you know what would be cool? An oLED matrix printed on a foldable mat
can we say, 19″ TV in my pocket? W00t
but i doubt that would be within my price range

By: sean s.

sean s. — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 06:46:30 +0000

Posted Jun 30, 2006, 9:37 PM ET by Benjamin Roy

This isn’t a hack. It’s a how-to.

Ok, I have a hack, and I don’t know why hackaday doesn’t use it. click on my name, and click on $30 serial Bluetooth adapter. I have been working on it for the last month.

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All things being equal, you merely cracked open a piece of plastic and soldered wires to some well-labeled contact points. If this clock or any of his other projects are not considered hacks, then how can you consider what you have done to be a hack?

Here’s my short list for what is considered a hack:

a. Gaining some secret or creative functionality out of a piece of hardware or software.

b. A quick and inelegant method of getting a job done (or pranking people).

As far as a lot of us are concerned, this hack easily falls under “b”. He could have done this with a microcontroller, surface mount components and a silkscreened double-sided PCB. Instead, he threw it together with parts that an average hobbyist electronics engineer has in their toolbox. That’s hack enough for me.

At any rate, I love his site. I think that the DIY Voltmeter also looks pretty and simple to make.
http://www.hanssummers.com/electronics/equipment/voltmeter/index.htm

By: bp

bp — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 06:32:05 +0000

Pretty neat. I’m not enough of a geek to want one, just enough of a geek to admire it! Ha.

Anyway, Steve’s various incoherent mumblings have got me thinking about new projects I can do with LEDs. In fact why don’t we all make lots of new hacks with LEDs. Lets put them in everything. Maybe Steve’s head will explode with childish frustration.

By: sean s.

sean s. — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 06:29:37 +0000

Posted Jun 30, 2006, 9:37 PM ET by Benjamin Roy

This isn’t a hack. It’s a how-to.

Ok, I have a hack, and I don’t know why hackaday doesn’t use it. click on my name, and click on $30 serial Bluetooth adapter. I have been working on it for the last month.

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All things being equal, you merely cracked open a piece of plastic and soldered wires to some well-labeled contact points.

At any rate, elliot,

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 06:03:32 +0000

heh no need for this hack — got a binary clock on my desk right now :)

By: jonored

jonored — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 05:29:44 +0000

Decidedly shiny hack; I like. Very nice with the scap construction. reminds me of what can be done with steel – you’d be amazed at what a truck’s leaf spring can do if you apply a bit of persuasive rearrangement to it :) – woot recycling :)

jfh: LEDs are objected to by some members of the readership. Therefore, mocking.

And as for the quesiton of filtering; dropping anything with the sequence of bytes 0×20 0×75 0×20 would seem a good start. Perhaps have 0×20 0×75 0×72 0×20, as well, just in case.

By: Chris_Rybitski

Chris_Rybitski — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 05:02:06 +0000

“Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry: inappropriate or purely promotional comments may be removed.”

By: Benjamin Roy

Benjamin Roy — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 04:37:27 +0000

This isn’t a hack. It’s a how-to.

Ok, I have a hack, and I don’t know why hackaday doesn’t use it. click on my name, and click on $30 serial Bluetooth adapter. I have been working on it for the last month.

By: PacketMonkee

PacketMonkee — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 04:13:11 +0000

I’ll be the richest man in the world after I invent a way to stab people in the face over the internet.