Rob Beschizza
Gear

Home-made Binary Clock, With Instructions

If you’ve ever wanted one of those flashy binary clocks but wanted to do it yourself (or simply have a fetish for that breadboard-‘n’-resistors look), here’s how. If any of the following quotation makes sense to you, you may even have a chance of being able to tell the time with it. It has a […]

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If you've ever wanted one of those flashy binary clocks but wanted to do it yourself (or simply have a fetish for that breadboard-'n'-resistors look), here's how.

If any of the following quotation makes sense to you, you may even have a chance of being able to tell the time with it.

It has a quartz pulse circuit which is divided down from 32768Hz to 2Hz by the 4060. This then drives a 4024 7bit counter for seconds connected to a 4 input AND gate, half of a 4082, which in turn drives the clock input of another 4024 which counts minutes. A similar thing happens for minutes to hours.

Binary Clock [Barnard's Photostream via Makezine]