The Best Psychadelic LED Hard Drive Clock We've Ever Seen
The Best Psychadelic LED Hard Drive Clock We've Ever Seen
Posted 01/28/2010 at 7:40pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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We love finding uses for old hardware seeing as we go through so much of it. The hard drive clock is a classic. We’ve seen it, and like it, but it’s getting old. However, one intrepid modder at the Hacked Gadgets site has reaffirmed our faith in the concept of the hard drive clock.
The modder, known as NatureTM, created a clock made from a still spinning hard drive. The hands are actually created by a single line of LEDs in the spinning platter. With mad scientist level math skills, NatureTM programmed the controller to flash at intervals to make it appear that there were moving hands on the clock. He used an open hardware prototyping platform called Arduino to control the time display.
NatureTM plans to release code at some point. So before you know it you’ll be ruining hard drives trying this yourself.
Here's the video:
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Biceps
January 29, 2010 at 11:04am
Make it run on PC case fans! Then we could all have these running in our computers, use our case fans to monitor system resources, or as little screens. Patent it, get it fabbed in China/Indonesia/etc. Give me 1%. Muuuah!
nekollx
January 29, 2010 at 10:18am
But can it...
still write files?
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Caboose
January 29, 2010 at 2:44pm
I see what you did there...
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
Quakindude
January 29, 2010 at 6:39am
No doubt about it, it's cool. But I don't need anything else in my immediate vicinity making noise like that tyvm.
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Matt_Rapp
January 28, 2010 at 8:15pm
This is quite simply the coolest looking mod I have seen since Boddaker's Neptune’s Trident. The Trident still wins for being more involved though. If I though I would ever finish it I would try to do this to one of my old HDD's.
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