DOTKLOK!

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Introducing DOTKLOK. Andrew writes –

Today I made some initial progress on one of my summer projects here at NYC Resistor –  a rudimentary mock-up of the DOTKLOK hardware.

DOTKLOK will be an open source clock kit with multiple time-telling animations, some literal like the simple display above, and others showing the passage of time through abstract patterns, following on from my Electric Window 3 series.

The inspiration for this clock is to combine a bunch of cool ways to show time — such as in a sentence, with words, or retro game displays — along with my own original animations, while providing a platform on which others can further develop cool timepieces.

Thanks to a great RTC1307 tutorial and library by Adafruit, I was interfacing with the clock chip faster than expected, and soon had a rudimentary sketch up and running.

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1 Comment

  1. Andrew O'Malley
    September 7, 2010 at 1:32 pm

    Thanks for the post!

    I’ve made yet more progress, documented here, including a new vid: http://technoetc.net/blog/2010/09/02/dotklok-prototype-programming/

    Cheers,
    ao.

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