NICE!

that is the qlocktwo. it was recently featured on engadget and many design blogs. i wanted to make one but never got around to it. nice job, drj, for acting so quickly.

I was just thinking of two sweet features that would be so cool. One making a makeshift round clock with hands on the face of this using the letters a number places and strings of letters as the “hands” of the clock. Also make it so it just says random phrases for each individual time of the day. Eventually (and with some fun) you will know which phrase means which time.

Nice work – I want one!

In the middle it says: MEGAN WOZ. I was half expecting to see ‘ERE’ underneath…

It looks like a regular board, but they’re usually translucent enough with bright lights behind them. I often shine lights through circuit boards to see the traces on both sides at once. It works surprisingly well.

This project could be made much simpler by using a double sided board, and mounting SMD LEDs facing into the board. Depending how big it is, you could get away with PWMing them instead of using drive transistors.

@kabadisha:

that “megan” looks intentional. i wonder who would need a clock, that can say “five minutes past megan” – unless of course your girlfriend is megan.

there is of course also an eve, but also doug, alf, hal, and an ian (down)

- or is it:
“megan woz four, i ve eve do twelve”

whatever that means.

Sanding the top of the LEDs may help with the narrow viewing angle. Nice project!

Oh that’s so cool!

It would have been cool without the extra words and names, but the person’s name who it’s built for lighting up occasionally, and the maker’s when it boots?

-Those just seal the deal. -IT’S AWESOME!

You could build a little grid shield into the back to help separate the individual segments or phrases to reduce light bleeding into adjacent segments. Might crisp it up a bit.

It would be fairly easy to cut the design from vinyl using a craftrobo or similar and then stick it over an acrylic sheet, the back of the sheet could have a diffuser layer stuck on it. Side mounting the LEDs would make the project thinner and would reduce spotting that you normally get with LEDs.

All in all I am very impressed with this project.

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Ok – I’ll bite….. What does that comment mean?

I adore this product! Will there be anything else in the line coming out soon?