Pandora 39;s Clock Movie

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CastRichard Dean Anderson as Captain James Holland

Daphne Zuniga as Dr. Roni Sanders

Jane Leeves as Rachel Sherwood

Richard Lawson as Captain Daniel Robb

Stephen Root as Mark Hastings

Tim Grimm as Steve Ellis

Edward Herrmann as The President

Robert Guillaume as Ambassador Lee Lancaster

Robert Loggia as Jonathan Roth

Jennifer Savidge as Barb Rollins

Kate Hodge as Brenda Hopkins

Vladimir Kulich as Yuri Steblinko

Penny Peyser as Lisa Erickson

Wolf Muser as Horst Zeitner

Michael Winters as Professor Ernest Helms

John Considine as Dr. Turnheir

John J. Nance as Air Force Chief

Teleplay by: David Israel

Directed by: Eric Laneuville

Executive Producers: David R. Ginsburg & David Israel

Co-Executive Producers: Cynthia Comsky & David Comsky

Produced by: Michael O. Gallant

Supervising Producer: Judy Ranan

Production Designer: Chester Kaczenski

Director of Photography: Steven Shaw

Edited by: Stephen Lovejoy

Stunt Coordinator: Vince Deadrick Jr.

Holland's Stunt Double: Steve Blalock

Technical Consultant: John J. Nance

Music by: Don Davis

In this four-hour pandemic thriller, an airliner full of holiday travelers suddenly becomes a pawn in a game of international intrigue when a passenger collapses apparently from an unknown virus so deadly that it can kill millions within days. Captain James Holland, unable to find any airport in Europe that will allow him to land, must weave through the potentially lethal maze of biological warfare, international terrorism and political deceit to ensure the safety of his passengers in this harrowing race against the clock.

A Nixie Tube Clock featuring Pandora Internet Radio, based on the Raspberry Pi with a custom designed case, LCD display, WiFi connection, amplifier and speakers. This is the most unique clock radio you will ever find!

This is also quite possibly the most expensive thing I have built to date. That said, most of the cost is tied up into the Nixie tubes (Huge IN-18 Tubes in this case.) and the clock board itself. It would be possible to use a less expensive type of tube and board combination or possibly get rid of the clock portion all together and then you would just have another type of Pandora Box project.

The inspiration for this project came from several sources. The first of which is my love for old and new tech and the perfect combination of that comes in the form of Nixie tube clocks. The best clock kits I have found so far come from a web store called PV Electronics. PV Electronics is based out of the UK and appears to be a one man show, but the customer service is fantastic and the kits are inexpensive in comparison to other kits with the same features. Please go check them out and tell them I sent you!

The second source of inspiration came from fellow Instructables member "Ayy" who has a very popular Pandora's Box build. Though I ended up going a different route with the LCD and LCD control, I had originally planned to do it his way. It just turned out that the Adafruit Pi Plate and LCD kit was about the same cost as building it from scratch and it cost me much less time, which is at a premium for me these days. Please go over and check out his project, especially if you want to build just the Pandora Box and want to do it on the cheap!

All that said, this is mostly an Instructable on how to assemble everything. I didn't have the forethought to document every single step along the way. However, most of it will be pretty self explanatory if you order the exact parts and pieces that I ordered.

CAUTION: Nixie tube clocks use high voltage; up to and over 300 Volts in some cases! This is enough to kill you or at the very least make you wish you hadn't touched that bare conductor with your hands. Use common sense, appropriate safety techniques, and follow the warnings and protocols from your kit instructions.

The first step is to assemble the Spectrum IN-18 Nixie clock from PV Electronics. The instructions are found on the website and are very thorough. If you have some experience with soldering this should prove very fun and easy for you to do. I won't get into specifics because from there it's a very straightforward build. However, I have attached a time lapse video of the clock assembly if you are interested.

I have attached the clock case design file to this project. You can simply upload the design and have it cut, or you can make modifications to it such as: custom engraving or decoration, different size holes for buttons and power adapter. If you change the design please send me a photo so I can see what you've come up with!!

I would advise you to have the design available on your PC and check the measurements with your clock board build in case you did not assemble it the same way as I did or if the board design changes over time. Or, at the very least, cut it out from cardboard and do a mock up. As it was, I went through 3 iterations before I got it perfect and that expense adds up! I used 3.0 mm thick Birch Plywood from Ponoko, click here to go straight to my design and order it up.

This is another simple board build, though I found in necessary to do some modifications to the steps from Adafruit.com to be sure that the Raspberry Pi would fit in the case and to remotely mount the buttons.

Beware of older instructions for setting up Pianobar, including all of the ones on Instructables. They don't work! They will only cause you to pull your hair out! Follow the Adafruit tutorial to the letter and you shouldn't have a problem!

These test points have through holes and are a convenient place to attach male header pins. Solder a pin to each of the GND and 5V test points. You will attach both the amplifier power and the Raspberry Pi power here so you need to build a pigtail of sorts to split it into 2 points. How you do this is up to you but I just tied 2 male header wires to a female header wire.

A note about power consumption: The spec sheet from PV Electronics recommends at least a 12V DC 1.0 amp power supply. Since we are attaching two more devices (Raspberry Pi w/ LCD and the amplifier.) I went with a 2.0 amp supply.

These buttons allow you to turn of the tubes to conserve power and life of the cathodes in the tubes, turn off the LEDs when you don't want to see them, and to kill the power to the Raspberry Pi if you need to shutdown.

On the clock board you will see 2 pairs of through holes label "Tubes" and "RGB", solder a pair of male header pins to each and then attach the corresponding button jumper wires. The clock board knows to turn off these features when the path is "shorted" so technically, the button will be pushed "ON" to turn off these features.

For the Raspberry Pi power button, solder one female jumper wire and one male jumper wire to the button. You will then attach this inline with the power wires coming from the Raspberry Pi, so you can interrupt the power supply when needed.

Slide the top of the case over the neon tubes and press down onto the board. Insert and attach the required bolts through these holes, then use nuts to tighten them very carefully. The photos do not show the nuts installed yet. You may need to experiment with the type of nuts you use. If the nuts protrude past the edge of the PCB then the clock board may not fit inside the case properly.

I am able to produce these clocks for you on a "made to order" basis, just check out my Etsy page here for details. You won't save money, but you will save time! (It may also help fund my goal of purchasing a laser cutter!)

However, the legacy version of pandora I have on an old samsung s5 (running 7 nougat--the best version of android to date!) still has the old embedded alarm clock and works perfectly every time. Why would you change that? Why let google get its fingers into pandora or vice-versa?

WTF? Why has the alarm system been removed? I have relied upon it every morning for more than 6 years and 2 days ago it got taken out. And the Clock app will not activate pandora like it says to do when you click on alarm clock feature in the pandora app.

Google clock does not have the option to set up the Pandora alarm on the TV! In the past, I could set this up in the app on my television. I want to wake up to beautiful music on my tv that fills my house, not my cell. Google clock is not a good replacement. Why did you get rid of it??!!

Pandora devs really dropped the ball on this one. The alarm feature was the best thing they ever did. They took it off and their solution is to tell us to use a broken feature on a device that not everyone has or wants. Terrible pr and no way to run and market a service. This is my first and last post as I intend to no longer use Pandora on any of my devices until this issue is resolved by way of reinstatement of the alarm setting. YouTube will suffice for my music needs until then.

Also should be able to customize the clock face with your own pictures or make your own especially since you can do it on other watches.

And would love to get notifications from Sports apps like Bleacher Report.

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