DIY'er constructs artsy wall clock from spare HDD parts, tells all

Instructables user grybaz has joined a special crew today with his masterful design, and that would be the oft-unappreciated DIY clock crowd. By utilizing a drill, screwdriver kit, pliers, a basic quartz clock movement and a dozen or so old hard drives, he was able to piece together something truly worthy of den placement. Handymen aren't apt to find this one any more difficult than fixing that pipe that one time underneath the sink, so if you're looking to do something useful with all of those 4GB 3.5-inch HDDs you're still hanging onto from college, roll up your sleeves and hit the read link.

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[awillinger Posted Nov 9th 2008 10:25AM]

wouldve been cooler if he made the movement himself w/ old hdd parts

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2008 10:30AM]

yeah but I guess that's not possible.
but change is possible, you must believe that you can make a change.
GObama.

[Sam of the Sun Posted Nov 9th 2008 11:04AM]

Muhammed fuck off you prick. What has Obama got to do with this? As for the clock, it is a funky centrepiece.

[Aguiluz Posted Nov 9th 2008 12:04PM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1asNB0te0o&feature=related


Sorry to post-jack, but this owns any hard drive clock on Engadget.

[calvinc Posted Nov 9th 2008 12:28PM]

hey I didn't realize lowest rank is back!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2008 10:28AM]

Now that's "overclocking"!

[Sam of the Sun Posted Nov 9th 2008 11:04AM]

Zing!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2008 10:34AM]

I bet all the parts come from Matrox and IBM harddrives.

[Towncivilian Posted Nov 9th 2008 11:15AM]

Matrox makes graphics cards, buddy. You're thinking of Maxtor.

[zed Posted Nov 9th 2008 11:30AM]

You can find IBM "deathstar" drives, enough to build a private tank army

[nickyP Posted Nov 9th 2008 10:43AM]

I herd you like hard drives, so I made a clock out of hard drives, now you can tell time with a drive. wait what?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2008 11:19AM]

SO basically he made a 60 rpm hard drive? ;) btw how many gigabytes has it got?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2008 11:27AM]

actually it would be 1/60 rpm, but i see what you're getting at (>o_-)>

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2008 11:29AM]

lol I messed up... But actually the seconds hand would be 1 rpm, and the minutes 1/60 rpm and the hour hand 1/1440 rpm. Very speedy indeed, this thing can totally beat the Velocipractor XD

[Peytral Posted Nov 9th 2008 11:30AM]

Err how did you get 60 rpm from a clock? you know rpm = revolutions per min, so that would mean the second hand has 1 rpm

[ethana2 Posted Nov 9th 2008 11:39AM]

I expected actuator arms for the time indication in minutes, with a marked platter behind it for the hours..

I'm a little disappointed. This isn't just from spare HDD parts, its a clock kit with a bunch of spare HDD parts glued onto it.

[gp Posted Nov 9th 2008 11:51AM]

That's exactly what I imagined. Come on, you can't even tell that the parts come from a hard disk. Plus it's ugly. And it stinks. And I bet it's slow.

[spongebob92 Posted Nov 9th 2008 1:07PM]

I'm not even going to ask how a fully working clock could be 'slow'...

[xarento Posted Nov 9th 2008 11:52AM]

That's the most secure form of data storage I've ever seen!

Nobody would ever suspect it was hidden in the clock...

[gp Posted Nov 9th 2008 12:05PM]

You mean in the little rings?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2008 12:30PM]

is this a 10000 rpm hdd?

[LonnieDVD Posted Nov 9th 2008 1:50PM]

Now I have seen everything, a clock from spare HDD parts. Of course, I would not be caught dead with that clock in my den.

[thethirdmoose Posted Nov 9th 2008 2:19PM]

DIYer? I hardly even know 'er!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2008 7:13AM]

This is all wrong, Engadget.

We want the damn truth! Admit that I saw this on instructables.com!

Also, to other readers, build your own from that very site. I dunno the link, because corporate IT is bringing down the hammer on things I can do on the interwebz.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 9th 2008 1:32AM]

Witam! Here my watch is. http://www.wrzuta.pl/katalog/gZDdYNmIrD/