Charlie Sorrel
Gear

Hack: LED Alarm Clock in G5 Tower

The cheese-grater Power Mac tower is just perfect for holding a dot matrix display, and it looks like Anders Lundberg thought the same thing: I was looking at the front grid on the computer one day, and it struck me that 3 mm LED’s would fit perfectly into the front grid holes. In proper hacker […]

The cheese-grater Power Mac tower is just perfect for holding a dot matrix display, and it looks like Anders Lundberg thought the same thing:

I was looking at the front grid on the computer one day, and it struck me that 3 mm LED’s would fit perfectly into the front grid holes.

In proper hacker style, Anders took an old alarm clock, threw away the extra parts and from there, designed a circuit board. The clock needs an external AC power supply, but what's one more wall wart? Best of all, he's selling kits, starting at $70 for a self assembly red LED set and $85 for the ready made.

Product page [Paulanders via Make]