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Finally I figured edge-lit acrylic might look really neat as well. Alternatively, I though of making a Death Star with a laser beam out of fiber, like this guy did. It'd be in 2D, and the head would be able to rotate around the body.

I thought of making it a BB-8 with a rotating head. That also means that if you take those word out, there's quite a bit of space left for alternatives, such as weather conditions.įor the case I had several ideas. Unfortunately, things become quite a bit more complicated when they need to line up for the several words I wanted hidden in there. With horizontal ones only, I would've probably had 2 rows left over.

The reason it was so difficult to design this was because I wanted not only horizontal words, but vertical ones as well. No particular reason other than me thinking it was a good idea. 'Why would you want that?', I hear you say, well, because I could. The first being 'It's MM minutes past/to HH', and the second one being 'It's HH (o) MM'. Now, in this layout I opted for a 'double system', so that you could display the time in the most common ways. After about three days of frustrations, I managed to cram in as many Star Wars references as I could while maintaining the word clock functionality. Either was a no-go since I wanted vertical words as well as double sets.Īfter abandoning all hope of finding an existing layout (that's what you get for wanting custom things), I figured I might as well pull out trusty old excel and start puzzling. It could only do horizontal words, and only specific sets. Second problem was that it was relatively 'basic'. First problem was the fact that I couldn't for the life of me get it running. I found exactly one program, run in some Java machine that could do some basic layouts. I know, who would've thought, right? Hopeful as I was, I thought some smart person had probably figured out an algorithm to figure out the patterns. So, a word clock apparently needed words. Unknown to me at the time was that this contest was coming up, which was a welcome incentive to actually start doing something, rather than just dreaming about it. Having always been a fan of Star Wars I thought it'd be fun to somehow combine those. There's nothing wrong with those, but I wanted more. I knew I wanted it to be something 'different', and a bit more 'advanced' than those 5-minute-accurate versions.

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One of the other Elites had made an interesting project with an RGB matrix, which sparked the idea that those two might make a great combo.įast forward a bit more, and I started contemplating about how to best build my own version.

Luckily I saw him struggling with soldering well over a 100 Neopixels for over a day, and I decided mine would have to be simpler. That's what gave me the final motivation to build one myself. 'That makes so much sense' is one of the first things I thought, and the seed was planted.įast forward to Maker Faire 2015, where I had the pleasure of meeting the Particle team and several of the Elites, I noticed one of the latter was building a word clock as well. That's around the time I saw a word clock for the first time. I've been used to using digital clocks, but they got boring too after a while. Unfortunately, analog clocks have since never been a great joy in my life, so I set out to look for something different. When I was little, my mom held back on teaching me how to read a regular analog clock so she could send me to bed earlier when she saw I was tired. 'So you made a clock huh?' - Yes, I made a clock, a cool one though.

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