Hi Should be easy enough to build one, if one does not already exist. Great big piece of perf board and a bunch of wire. Put a piece of colored Lexan in front of it, simple wood box around it. Run with your favorite CPU board.
Bob On Apr 1, 2013, at 6:06 PM, "Bill Hawkins" <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking for a long, thin horizontal clock display for use above or below > a flat screen TV. > > Tried searching for "bar clock" and got a lot of useless hits. > > What I'd like is a display that is about half an inch (12 mm) high by > 12-18 inches long (30-50 cm) that is just two rows of 60 or 120 leds. > One row is labeled 0 to 59 (or 60) and the other is labeled 0 to 12. The > display does not stay at 12 or 60 but jumps back to zero. Power line > frequency is an adequate reference, as long as it always has the same > 86,400 seconds per day, except for added leap seconds. There should not > be a clock frequency adjustment. > > 60 seconds worth of line cycles bumps the minute bar (30 if it has 120 > leds), and 5 minutes bumps the hour bar (150 seconds for 120 leds). > > The clock is set (after startup and power outages) by four buttons on > the back - minutes, increment, decrement, hours. > > Have any of you connoisseurs of time seen such a clock? How about a bar > of leds that could be used to make a clock? > > Bill Hawkins > > P.S. Currently re-reading Terry Pratchett's "Thief of Time" - a whole > new way to look at time in a funny and perceptive story. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
