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Re: digital clock pIqaD

Jessie Oberreuter ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

     If you are looking at making a full-sized "wall" clock, you could use 
electroluminescent strips to make the line segments, and, for simplicity, 
switch them with reed-relays.  A quick web search found these guys:

 	http://www.beingseen.com/
 	http://www.elbestbuy.com/

     I've been considering building a travel clock/radio with a vacuum 
flourescent or LED matrix display so I could do tlhIngan and Chinese 
characters.  The parts are readily available ... just haven't gotten 
'round to it.  Alternately, for the classy look you're after, you could 
paint characters on an oscilloscope display, a la

 	 http://www.cathodecorner.com/sc100.html

     IIRC, he also did a mini-clock with a 1-2 inch 'scope tube.



On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, naHQun wrote:

> I've always liked digital clocks and the way all of the numbers
> fit together, so the other day at work I decided to see if I could
> do it with pIqaD numbers, this is what I came up with:
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/purpleelaphants/images/digital_pIqaD.gif
>
> (for some reason the picture only displays right when it is expanded,
> I think my web-site has shrinks it automatically-so make sure it's expanded)
>
> if only I knew how to make a clock face...
> ~naHQun
>
>
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