#binaryclock

2024-08-01

So now I get replies on #Strava from other unicyclists in binary. 😆🤓

This started because we also both wear binary watches

#WristCheck #BinaryClock #UnicycleLife #Unicycle #Enhjulssykkel

Screenshot from Strava with a message/reply in binary from Ola KÃ¥re Risa that reads,

01000010 01101111 01110100 01101000 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101011 00100000 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100101 00100001 00100000 01000001 01101101 01100001 01111010 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01110011 00100000 01110111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110011 00100000 01100010 01101111 01110100 01101000 00100000 01110101 01101110 01101001 01100011 01111001 01100011 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01110111 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110011 00100001

The message has 1 like.Binary watch with a unicycle in the background.Garmin watch showing the time and other details in binary
LeRoy Millerkd8bxp@diode.zone
2023-10-16

M5StickC Binary Clock Original Project Aug 30, 2019

diode.zone/videos/watch/35bb3b

Helles Sachsenhelles_sachsen
2022-11-04

Uhrenquarz ist auch dabei.

Elektronische Bauteile ca in Dutzend LEDs, ein Chip, paar Taster und ein Batteriehalter
2022-10-10

With my thoughts again on watches (and clocks) I am once again tempted to buy this Binary clock that is made to look like a little Parisian Haussmannian building

the-city-clock.com

#BinaryClock

A small wooden model of a Parisian Haussmannian building next to a glass of red wine. Several of the windows are lit up and they are used to represent time in Binary Coded Decimal. The time displayed is: 17:21 (5:21pm).

Cool Binary Clock Uses Old-School LEDs and a Fancy Graphic PCB

Ah, the 5mm LED. Once a popular choice, they've been supplanted in modernity by smaller SMD components and/or more capable RGB parts in recent years. However, they're still able to do the job and are a great way to give your project that proper homebrew look. [Ian Dunn] chose those very parts to produce his 4017 Decade Binary Clock.

The clock uses only digital logic ICs to tell the time - there are no microcontrollers here! After four or five iterations over almost a whole year, [Ian] was finally able to coax the circuit into reliable operation. As you'd expect, it relies on a 32.768 kHz crystal to provide a stable clock. Fed into a 4060 binary ripple counter, that clock is divided down 14 times to deliver a 2Hz square wave. This then goes through a 4027 flip flop to get the desired 1Hz signal. From there, a bunch of extra logic handles counting the seconds, minutes, and hours, and resetting the counters as appropriate.

The PCB that houses the project is printed on directly by a flatbed inkjet printer, which [Ian] purchased when inspired by our previous article on how to get your PCBs made at the mall. He didn't actually use it to make the PCB in this case, but the flatbed printer does a great job of putting graphics on the board.

The result is quite an attractive look that might surprise a few electronics enthusiasts who haven't seen a graphic printed board before. It's a technique we think could be used to great effect on conference badges, too. If you've experimented with similar techniques, be sure to drop us a line!

#clockhacks #binaryclock #clock #cmos

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