Turning Digital Junk into Analog Clocks

[omni]

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.

[cornerstone]

Awesome!!

Are those different time zones on the lower clocks?

[Anopsis]

Nice work! Are those chrono subdials at the bottom?

[P4GTR]

Very cool!

[omni]

Thanks for the compliments guys. Yeah, those are different timezone clocks on the bottom.

[vafarmer70]

How did I miss this? That is great!!

[hackR]

this is great...very cool work - thanks for sharing...

well done...

R-

[gran]

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

[redwatch]

Very very cool Omni!! I like it! How did it do at the exhibition?

[omni]

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

[redwatch]

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!

[highoeyazmuhudee]

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

[vafarmer70]

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?

[highoeyazmuhudee]

flop-pee disk?

hah just kidding

[redline8k]

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