New clock kit in the making

[Joe Croft]

Hi Yall,

I've been working on a new clock kit. I hope to have it ready for Christmas. I've attached a couple of pictures of the first one which was built as a wedding present for my nephew. My wife hand painted the face. We are planning to have the hand painted faces as an option. The second picture shows off face more and how it looks with the switches and screws in place. If I can figure it out, I plan to put plugs over the screws in the final version and maybe caps over the switches if I can work it out.

I'm also working on a different case. Sadly, I ran out of time before I could get it completed. Thank God for Pier 1 Imports!

-joe

[threeneurons]

Now that's a neat concept ! Someone talked about using neon bargraphs (IN9 or IN13) to make an analog clock, but I don't recall actually seeing one. Or maybe I did, and just forgot. Anyways, nicely done !

One of the bad things about getting old is the memory going. On the plus side, I can get away with a film catalog of only a half dozen films, and its like seeing the movie all over again.

[Joe Croft]

There was another on the list about 6mos ago, it was a kick starter and above my pay level. I try not to copy, some days timing just sucks. I started on this then found his. Mine is going to be a kit with mostly through hole parts.

-joe

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[gregebert]

Glad to see you had better success than I did with liner tubes; I experimented with a few IN-9's and found them to be unpredictable.

Instead, I used strings of NE-2 bulbs (304 in total) to make my big clock, which you can see in my profile pic. To get a sense of size, the clock is just over 20 inches in diameter.

[threeneurons]

On Saturday, August 27, 2016 at 6:54:48 PM UTC-7, joenixie wrote:

There was another on the list about 6mos ago, it was a kick starter ...

No wonder I forgot about it. Kickstarter and other crowd funding sites, were created with good intentions, but it seems the charlatans have caught on, and just use it as another avenue for their con games. So, I deliberately cleared that out of my mind.

Good luck with the kit. Should do well.   

[Nicholas Stock]

I've backed many many Kickstarter projects of interest and have yet to be burned. Don't let a few bad apples spoil it for you. Indiegogo is the one I'd be more wary of, their 'charlatan' count is a lot higher than Kickstarter....

Nick

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[Joe Croft]

I found that the IN13 would 'tear' and such if I tried o make it move from one value to the next too quickly. If I ramped the change it behaved well. This may have been the problem you saw with the IN-9 as well. I will have to play with those just to see. If I remember correctly, the IN13 took 2ms to go from 0% to 100% on. They are not the quickest in response times. Certainly not what we expect out of LEDs and such.

-joe

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 9:46 PM, gregebert <greg...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Glad to see you had better success than I did with liner tubes; I experimented with a few IN-9's and found them to be unpredictable.

Instead, I used strings of NE-2 bulbs (304 in total) to make my big clock, which you can see in my profile pic. To get a sense of size, the clock is just over 20 inches in diameter.

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