Arduino binary clock doesn't care to be useful, just wants to be admired

If there's one thing we love about DIY projects, it's the feeling that the outcome is more than the mere sum of its parts. This here binary clock is a prime example, being composed of scrap plastic, some dirt-cheap parts and a homemade Arduino board. And yet, after a few licks of polish and the inevitable LEDs, it looks like a true monument to geekdom, which is only amplified by the fact you can't even use the thing without being familiar with binary code. But then again, if utility was a standard by which we judged homebrewed projects, we'd have a lot less to talk about.

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[(Unverified) Posted Aug 20th 2009 5:57AM]

This one here looks nicer!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/59e0/

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 20th 2009 6:16AM]

It's hard to know the time, till you do a complicated calculation?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 20th 2009 6:31AM]

01001110 01101001 01100011 01100101 00100001

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 20th 2009 6:43AM]

its not really that complicated ifim reding it right its 14:32 or 2:30pm there are others with seconds as well.. still not as easy as the digial but looks cool..

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 20th 2009 6:43AM]

It's 2:32 pm. There's no calculation.

[Professor Kaos Posted Aug 20th 2009 2:13PM]

It's 14:32, military time, but yea you're right. I was like wtf is he talking about until I remembered.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 20th 2009 6:46AM]

pretty good hey can read the techy binary clock and cant evan type.. you got the drift

[1 Posted Aug 20th 2009 7:07AM]

You fail at everything, even as a low life spammer.

[Wwhat Posted Aug 20th 2009 7:27AM]

Bit annoying if you can't make out the zeros.

[James2432 Posted Aug 20th 2009 8:15AM]

HAHHAHAHAHAHA "BIT" annoying AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[W31RD0 Posted Aug 20th 2009 8:50AM]

That pun bytes.

[Phrank Posted Aug 20th 2009 10:36AM]

Weirdo, that one was TERAble.

[appsman Posted Aug 20th 2009 8:53PM]

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.