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We don't really need a physical wall clock anymore these days when we have the convenience of checking our phones, ...
My 15-year-old son Ethan and I built this handsome clock that has overall dimensions of 8-3/8 x 8 x 5 inches. Our clock took about three hours to complete. Most of that time was spent making cuts ...
How to build a clock that detects gravity In Tokyo, researcher Katori Hidetoshi uses atomic clocks to see how gravity warps time ...
As I once heard a wit describe an exchange with a garrulous speaker, “I asked him the time, and he told me how to build Switzerland!” This tell-all tendency occurs regularly in presentations ...
The 10,000 Year Clock is up and running — and now that the plans are online, you can construct your own nigh-immortal timepiece The Long Now Foundation’s 10,000 Year Clock — a beautifully ...
But Guichet didn’t just build some Rube Goldberg-type contraption to simply press the ‘snooze button’ on his smartphone. He instead built an LED wall clock from scratch, with a custom ...
Driving the coils of a cheap clock directly (a la Lord Vetinari clock hacking) seems an obvious approach. But look closely and you’ll see the hands sometimes move in opposite directions.