Users Online Now:
3,119
(
Who's On?
)
Visitors Today:
1,100,520
Pageviews Today:
2,074,214
Threads Today:
990
Posts Today:
18,310
10:14 PM
Directory
Adv. Search
Topics
Forum
Back to Forum
Back to Thread
REPLY TO THREAD
Subject
I'm building a Babylonian/Hebrew hours (relative hours) analog wall clock that will show planetary hours
User Name
Font color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Indigo
Violet
Black
Font:
Default
Verdana
Tahoma
Ms Sans Serif
In accordance with industry accepted best practices we ask that users limit their copy / paste of copyrighted material to the relevant portions of the article you wish to discuss and no more than 50% of the source material, provide a link back to the original article and provide your original comments / criticism in your post with the article.
[quote:anastasis888:MV80MDY1MDIyXzczNjQzMzQ5X0MyQUFEQjBD] The DCF77 atomic signal is kind of an amazing thing, actually. You can now literally rebuild the Orloj in the form of a small wall clock on an electronic Arduino platform. I mean, if you had a hundred grand to spend, you could build it mechanically, but now with a bit of code and an old train clock from the 1930s, you can build it in your room on a budget. [/quote]
Original Message
I had been searching the longest time for a way to somehow build a relative hours (solar daylight hours) analog clock such as the Orloj in Prague, orbat St Paul's Cathedral in Munster. But I also wanted to keep track of planetary hours according to Babylonian/Hebrew relative hours.
With Arduino controllers and DCF77, I've finally found the way I'm going to do the trick. I'll do some mods to the clock face to show Babylonian/Hebrew morning/evening hours and I'll add a planetary hours face in a planetary heptagram (for the 7 classical stars of the 7 days of the week) form that I will set the stepmotor to rotate in increments of 51.43 degrees per hour, thus creating a perpetual planetary hours time keeper. I ordered an old clock just like this off eBay yesterday. Really excited about getting started. When I finish, I'll have the only known Hebrew hours and planetary hours electronic analog clock in the world. It'll be one of a kind, because what I was looking for doesn't exist. So I'm building it.
Take a look at this Instructable. This guy does amazing work.
[
link to www.instructables.com (secure)
]
Pictures (click to insert)
General
Politics
Bananas
People
Potentially Offensive
Emotions
Big Round Smilies
Aliens and Space
Friendship & Love
Textual
Doom
Misc Small Smilies
Religion
Love
Random
View All Categories
|
Next Page >>