youtube.com - 10/17/2008
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This is a hard drive clock I built from a 3.5" hard drive, some tri-color LEDs and a PIC16F252 microcontroller. It works by shining the LEDs underneath...
ian.org - 10/17/2008
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seeing the hard drive clock at Alan Parekhs Electronic Projects I just had to make my own. I have plenty of old hard drives, microcontrollers and a ...
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LED Hard Drive Clock 3.5"
arstechnica.com - 10/14/2008
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LED POV hard drive clock
Hack a Day —
[Ian Smith] sent us this POV display made from an old hard drive. It works by flashing some LEDs under the platter, which has a line cut in it. Since the platter spins at roughly 90 rotations per second, we perceive a solid image. He was inspired by [Alan Parekh]’s project, but did several things ...
LED hard drive clock
MAKE Magazine: hacks —
Ian Smith created this supremely cool clock from an old hard drive, some tri-color LEDs and a PIC microcontroller. It works using a simple persistence of vision technique. The disk platter has a narrow slit cut in it and the LEDs are all positioned behind the spinning platter, causing light to shine out through the slit. By adjusting the color of the LEDs as the disk rotates, you can conceivably create any sort of pie-chart style graphics you like, from Pac Man to the hands of a clock.
LED Hard Drive Clock
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