Stonehenge - A Robotic Digital Clock

By Ben on Mon Aug 4 2008
Stonehenge
Gear  |  Gadget
Stonehenge uses a CrustCrawler Smart Arm and a Parallax Propeller chip to display the current time. All the digits needed to display the time are located on cards positioned in a semi-circle around the left and right sides of the arm. The time itself is displayed in front of the arm. This gives the clock a "Stonehenge" like appearance. There are a total of 14 cards. Each card has two digits with one on each side. The software planner determines which card and which side is needed to display the time and then sends the necessary movement commands to the arm. Check out see the video shows a time update from 12:09 to 12:10.


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#1 Post by Liam, on Sat Sep 25 2010 11:30 PM
Wow, pointless. A nice design but too loud and slow. It takes about 1 minute to change two tiles, it'd constantly be on. Plus, it'd take even longer when the hour changes, so surely it'd lag behind in time...
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