omni Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Wonder what to do with all those old worn out computers? One of my fun hobbies is making analog clocks out of dead computer harddrives. Mostly they're simple small clocks I create as gifts to friends. I just finished this pendulum design to enter into a "junk into art" exhibition. It hangs in our kitchen as a 3 foot tall conversation piece of high tech converted into low tech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornerstone Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Awesome!! Are those different time zones on the lower clocks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anopsis Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Nice work! Are those chrono subdials at the bottom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4GTR Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omni Posted February 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Thanks for the compliments guys. Yeah, those are different timezone clocks on the bottom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vafarmer70 Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 How did I miss this? That is great!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackR Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 this is great...very cool work - thanks for sharing... well done... R- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gran Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 Wonder what to do with all those old worn out computers? One of my fun hobbies is making analog clocks out of dead computer harddrives. Mostly they're simple small clocks I create as gifts to friends. I just finished this pendulum design to enter into a "junk into art" exhibition. It hangs in our kitchen as a 3 foot tall conversation piece of high tech converted into low tech. Now that is what I call a compuFRANKEN You are a very talented man omni...I am impressed with the attention to fine details and finish all the best Gunnar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwatch Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 Very very cool Omni!! I like it! How did it do at the exhibition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omni Posted April 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 Haven't been around for months (life has gotten in the way) and just noticed I need to answer Redwatch. The clock didn't garner any awards since they weren't giving out any, it was just an exhibition of what you can do with trash. I've since changed the main 5.25 drive with bigger & longer orange hands since my wife complained she couldn't read it across the room. To let you know how ancient I am in tech years, notice that the circuit board has "Compuserve, Inc." stamped on it. A leftover of the original mother of all forum services when the only way to hook up was phone modems and everything was text only, I used to manage the hard site here on Maui. Glad you enjoyed it. Over & Out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwatch Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 Ah yes, the good old BBS days. I was on GENie all the way through college on an old 8088 XT PC with amber/monochrome monitor and a 14.4k modem. Of course, there were serious moderators back then and the forums were quite informative and very, very clean! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highoeyazmuhudee Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Very nice! I have plenty of old 30gig hard drives lying around but I mostly just remove the rare earth magnet from them for malicious use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vafarmer70 Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Very nice! I have plenty of old 30gig hard drives lying around but I mostly just remove the rare earth magnet from them for malicious use Slipping them inside of people's floppy disk stash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highoeyazmuhudee Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 flop-pee disk? hah just kidding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redline8k Posted September 12, 2010 Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 Is this something you make and sell, My best friend would love one of these, it would make a cool wedding gift. let me know if you could make something like this for me. -nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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