The Basic Stamp Homework Board (BSHWB) microcontroller, the PIC16C57, is a surprisingly useful and somewhat powerful microcontroller which I decided to choose for designing a binary clock, along with ...

Check out this cool geek clock from Dutch designer Peter van der Jagt, which features 1500 red LEDs. The 1500 LED clock will show the current date, day and time using the red LED’s. Try to keep your ...

Part 1 of this three-part series introduced the technical and engineering steps necessary to design an LED display system from individual LED lamps. Part 2 provided the remaining steps needed to ...

In an era when you might get chastised if your mobile phone is more than two years old, it’s easy to forget that hardware was not always meant to be a temporary commodity. We acknowledge a few ...

The purpose of a clock is to show the time, obviously. But if you’ve followed Hackaday for some time, you’ll know there are about a million different ways of achieving this. [illusionmanager] added ...

The NBA and WNBA shot clocks are getting a makeover that will debut at the 2025 NBA All-Star Game. Per Tom Friend of the Sports Business Journal, the league will use a new LED-infused shot clock that ...

Minimalist wood block + high-tech LEDs = one fabulous combination. We love the simplicity of this Japanese clock design: when the clock is turned off it resembles little more than a wood block. When ...