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jwz – XDaliChron!

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Yay! Previously, previously, previously.

Filed under: clocks — by adafruit, posted March 11, 2010 at 11:20 am


XDALICHRON – Another great clock for the MONOCHRON


XDALICHRON – We really like jwz.

“Dali Clock is a digital clock. When a digit changes, it “melts” into its new shape. The date is displayed when the mouse is pressed. The window can be made transparent, and can do funky psychedelic color cycling. ”

Firmware is on github, have fun! Another great clock for the MONOCHRON – (m4v video).

Filed under: Adacast, clocks — by adafruit, posted March 10, 2010 at 7:57 pm


SEVENCHRON – video – MONOCHRON projects


Big day for open source clocks, here’s SEVENCHRON (m4v). You can get SEVENCHRON on GitHub – just need a MONOCHRON and a programmer :)

Filed under: Adacast, clocks — by adafruit, posted March 5, 2010 at 6:33 pm


INTRUDERCHRON – photos and video – more MONOCHRON projects

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Here’s INTRUDERCHRON by datamanphotos and video – just one of the many projects you can do with the open source hackable MONOCHRON clock kit! The time (1:30, date 03/05)… (m4v).

Filed under: Adacast, clocks — by adafruit, posted at 2:14 pm


How it was made… The MONOCHRON case design by Amanda ‘w0z’ Wozniak

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How it was made… The MONOCHRON case design by Amanda ‘w0z’ Wozniak. We just scanned in the images, enjoy!

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Oh for the curious, we’re trying out the Hovercam 500 to do this… so far so good, place document, click, email. We’re going to use it for overhead video on “Ask an Engineer” this week.

Filed under: clocks — by adafruit, posted March 4, 2010 at 12:12 pm


INTRUDERCHRON: A Monochron hack

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It has begun, INTRUDERCHRON: A Monochron hack… Nice work dataman! We made the MONOCHRON clock just for things like, love it!

Filed under: clocks — by adafruit, posted at 8:43 am


More clocks…

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Len posted up some sweet clock builds!

Filed under: clocks — by adafruit, posted March 3, 2010 at 12:37 am


The “so i herd’ you like clocks” thread is getting out of control…

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The “so i herd’ you like clocks” thread is getting out of control… love it!

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Filed under: clocks — by adafruit, posted March 1, 2010 at 7:23 pm


OSH FTW!

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OSH FTW!



More clock on clock action

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Thx Poindexter!

Filed under: clocks — by adafruit, posted at 12:59 am


MONCHRON clock photos pouring in… YOU MADE IT!

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K5HJ writes -

Easy build. Postman arrived at 10:30, kit finished at 12:00. Note the well organized work area.

Thanks! And hey, nice work area!

MONOCHRON KIT – Available here <—

Filed under: clocks — by adafruit, posted at 12:00 am


y0 dawg, i herd’ you liked open source clocks…

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y0 dawg, i herd’ you liked open source clocks… this customer made a clock for their clock so they could tell time while they’re telling time…



Video of the MONOCHRON clock in action…

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Here’s a quick video of our new kit, the MONOCHRON – we’ll be posting more videos soon – here’s a taste! (HD version on Vimeo, m4v here!)…

This easy kit has an default animated display, but is easily hackable to do whatever you wish – pictured above, retro arcade style table tennis for two.

Comes with: clock kit (includes all parts, programmed chips and LCD), coin battery, enclosure, 9VDC power supply for 220V or 110V. You’ll need some basic soldering & hand tools that are necessary to assemble it! The good news is that this is a pretty basic kit and even if its your first soldering project, it shouldn’t take more than 2 or 3 hours to put together For much more information including parts list, instructions, videos, etc. check out the MONOCHRON website and you can order one here!

We started shipping and we’ve already had customers making them, the first customer has said “Assembly was a snap and it works great.” thanks SSquire!



Tonight 10pm ET – “Ask an Engineer” – Make: Electronics night! + MONOCHRON

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Tonight, Saturday 2/20/2010 – 10pm ET – “Ask an Engineer” – our weekly LIVE video chat!

What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or an seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re up to! We have demos of projects and products we’re working on, we answer you engineering and electronics questions and we have a trivia question + give away each week.

This week we’ll go through some of chapters one of the books we stock “Make: Electronics by Charles Platt” We checked out this book before putting it in the shop, its geared towards ultimate-beginners and teaches electronics starting from basic core of analog to some digital to microcontrollers. You’ll learn tools, prototyping soldering techniques, transistors, 555’s, etc. while completing useful projects. A nice and tidy intro! This book is a good accompaniment to learning microcontrollers/Arduino in that it fills the necessary electronics theory and background.

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Next up tonight, we’ll have a demo of our new kit we’re about to release the MONOCHRON. If you’d like to order it we’ll have a discount code and this will be the last week you can pre-order it at this price.

Chat details!

  • Visit our new “chat” section on Adafruit at 10pm ET, Saturday nights
  • Or visit our Ustream page
  • For old schoolers, you can use IRC, you’ll need a Ustream log/pass, check out the Ustream IRC how-tos here and here
  • We are #adafruit-industries6796 on IRC server chat1.ustream.tv
  • There will be a trivia question at the end of the night as always!
  • Rules of the chat: be nice, add value, stay on topic (engineering and electronics).
Filed under: clocks — by adafruit, posted February 20, 2010 at 12:06 pm


Harmoshnik

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Harmoshnik… Harmosnik is assembled in a Marine Band harmonica case.

Filed under: clocks — by adafruit, posted February 18, 2010 at 9:29 am


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