AwareGeek » concept http://awaregeek.com You are real geek and spend all your free money on gadgets? No more need to spend lots of time googling – all interesting and really useful gadgets on awaregeek.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:08:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 “Digital” mechanical clock http://awaregeek.com/clocks-watches/digital-mechanical-clock/ http://awaregeek.com/clocks-watches/digital-mechanical-clock/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:53:03 +0000 cleo http://awaregeek.com/?p=407 Wow! This one is really amazing! Briefly this is a mechanical clock that emulates digital one. The idea is quite simple and understandable, but the realization is magnificent, just look at the picture:

digital mechanical clock

Created by UK designer Duncan Shotton, those clock are called Di Grisogono Meccanica. The main idea is that numbers on the “screen” are produced by stripes (bars) that are moving behind it. The “screen” has got holes in the shape of regular seven-piece displays, and the stripes are covered with paint in the way to close the holes in the “screen”

The numeral bars drop back under gravity when the final digits have been displayed, driven by servos controlled by a microcontroller. Unfortunately there’s no prices or dates for sale on the site, but I hope we can see this masterpiece of technology in the nearest future.

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