This clock is a great example of taking a very simple mechanism and making it a lot more interesting using a bit of ingenuity. The Tide Clock uses an ordinary circular clock mechanism, and adds a linkage to make an indicator slide up and down. As the indicator reaches the top or the bottom, it slows down; towards the middle of its travel, it speeds up.
This is, as its creator explains, the sine function at work, and it’s also exactly how the tides move.
A special, scalable spectacle-case with a flexible 3D structure
A digital KVM for connecting a Raspberry Pi to another PC – no networking required
The MIDI Blaster uses a Raspberry Pi 4, as the Raspberry Pi 5 doesn’t have a 3.5mm audio jack. It’s loaded with ‘sound fonts’, which is a new one on us, but it means that the user can give the music from one game – Final Fantasy VII, say – the sonic characteristics of the […]
Reddit user HardWiredFurry found a beautiful copper heatsink and was inspired to build their own. This build uses two fans for cooling, as well as the copper heatsink, and is now looking aesthetically pleasing on their desk while hosting a Minecraft server.
From 1982 to 2000 Sony also made a line of pocket TVs, which didn’t catch on as much in the UK (who wants to walk around glued to a tiny portable screen, eh?). These devices, collectively called the Sony Watchman, came in many, many variants as screen technology evolved over 18 years of production. What’s […]
The KVM and video capture box is up for grabs
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