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Domino-9-ClockClocks have always inspired me, ever since I was a 4 year old boy. In my teenage years I have repaired hundreds of clocks, alarm clocks and watches. This year I had the idea of designing a very special clock that nobody else would have. Many designer clocks have been made already, like rotary clocks and binairy clocks, each with the perpose of displaying time in a special way. This domino clock has the same perpose, display the time in an unusual way.
The clock consists of 3 domino tiles from the domino-nine game. The left tile marks the hours, the right tile the minutes and the centre tile the seconds. Each tile consists of 24 rectangular leds to form the shape of the tile and 18 round leds that form 2 time 9 dots for each side of the tile.
The clock has an ambient light sensor, which means it adjusts the brightness of the display according to the brightness of the ambient light. The result of this is that the clock consumes approx 0.4W at night time and 1.6W during daytime. This is an environmently friendly solution while the display will always be bright enough to clearly read the time.
The ambient light sensor can also be used to test your Infra Red remote control. Just press one of it's buttons keeping the remote close (20cm) from the clock and the display will flicker with the same speed as the codes from your remote control.
At the back of the clock is a rotary encoder switch. This is to set the time which can now be easily changed upwards and downwards.
The clock in the picture is made for my father's 72nd birthday anniversary. It has serial number 0001. The next domino clock (S/N 0002) will be for Robin Weijers (Mr Domino) to congratulate him with the 10 years anniversary of domino day and his new world record.
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Domino-9-ClockClocks have always inspired me, ever since I was a 4 year old boy. In my teenage years I have repaired hundreds of clocks, alarm clocks and watches. This year I had the idea of designing a very special clock that nobody else would have. Many designer clocks have been made already, like rotary clocks and binairy clocks, each with the perpose of displaying time in a special way. This domino clock has the same perpose, display the time in an unusual way.
The clock consists of 3 domino tiles from the domino-nine game. The left tile marks the hours, the right tile the minutes and the centre tile the seconds. Each tile consists of 24 rectangular leds to form the shape of the tile and 18 round leds that form 2 time 9 dots for each side of the tile.
The clock has an ambient light sensor, which means it adjusts the brightness of the display according to the brightness of the ambient light. The result of this is that the clock consumes approx 0.4W at night time and 1.6W during daytime. This is an environmently friendly solution while the display will always be bright enough to clearly read the time.
The ambient light sensor can also be used to test your Infra Red remote control. Just press one of it's buttons keeping the remote close (20cm) from the clock and the display will flicker with the same speed as the codes from your remote control.
At the back of the clock is a rotary encoder switch. This is to set the time which can now be easily changed upwards and downwards.
The clock in the picture is made for my father's 72nd birthday anniversary. It has serial number 0001. The next domino clock (S/N 0002) will be for Robin Weijers (Mr Domino) to congratulate him with the 10 years anniversary of domino day and his new world record.
