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24 alternatives to I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
Rhei is a dynamic installation, an animated sculpture, an idea expressed in the form of a minimalistic, digital clock.
An electro-mechanical liquid clock that took a year to prototype and develop. This novelty timepiece is designed for people who appreciate unconventional, mechanical art objects. The clock uses liquid movement to… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. - arnegiacomo/fugleramme
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · nikital.github.io · its alternatives →
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Here's a "behind-the-scenes" look at my development of a cool sensor during my PhD (electrical engineering). This sensor is only about 1/3 of my total research for my degree and took about a year. I've been on HN for a while now and I've seen my fair share of posts about the woes of pursuing a PhD. Now that I'm done with mine I wanna share some anecdotal evidence that doing a PhD can actually be enjoyable (not necessarily easy) and also be doable in 3 years. When I started I knew I didn't want to work on something that would never leave the lab or languish in a dissertation PDF no one…
2024 · paulbupejr.com · its alternatives →
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Hello all! Build clean, minimalistic analog clock webpage to Cloudflare Pages. This is for (maybe): - kids to learn - for second monitor - old tabled on shelf - .. Themes and screen wake lock buttons with auto-hide. Goal is to keep it as clean as possible. This possible makes no sense, but for a domain of $10/y this is cheap site for me to keep and see how it lives on.
Feb 2026 · clocksimulator.com · its alternatives →
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JS/ReactJS simulation of A Million Times
2017 · clocks.80limit.com · its alternatives →
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Copper is an operating system for robots - build, run, and replay your entire robot deterministically. - Home · copper-project/copper-rs Wiki
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bauhaus Clock▲207Elegant timepiece screensaver for macOS
2025 · bauhausclock.com · its alternatives →
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Just a toy, showing how easy it is to leverage built-in Emacs features (most notably Artist mode, which provides a set of functions for creating ASCII-art vector graphics) and things like trigonometric functions and timers to create something nice. A short blog post mentioning some background (and showing a screenshot): https://mbork.pl/2025-09-08_Emacs_Artist_clock#.
2025 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →
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I bet you didn't knew you can use modelling clay (as opposed to 3d printing) to make nice devices by hand :)
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Origami▲109A free design prototyping toolkit for Quartz Composer
2013 · facebook.github.io · its alternatives →
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This is a little toy project of mine that lets you simulate digital logic graphs. It was inspired by Minecraft's Redstone and the Piet esolang. It's got some serious drawbacks-- you write circuits as PNGs and simulate them with a Python interface. It's slow to run and slow to experiment with. And it is certainly difficult to use for people with any kind of color blindness. But despite that, I hope this can still be a fun toy!
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · stavros.io · its alternatives →
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Pole Clock▲265Experience time in a whole new way with a 24h analog clock
2022 · poleclock.com · its alternatives →
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A clock app for my Apple ][ clone in 6502 assembly, using interrupts generated by an inductive proximity sensor and a physical pendulum clock. I wanted to polish the code a bit more before sharing (I especially dislike the self modifying code part), but the computer seems to have developed a hardware problem lately and it keeps crashing (bad RAM chip most likely), so I am sharing as is.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · s3.amazonaws.com · its alternatives →
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60 LED arrays power an all new kind of time keeper
2021 · luminousobjects.com · its alternatives →
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I made an alarm clock that blows up capacitors to wake you up. There are more details on the Github repo but it's made from an esp32-c3 as the microcontroller, with 3 capacitor slots. There are relays on each capacitor slot to put 15v reverse voltage on the capacitor, with 5.1 ohm resistors on each slot for current limiting in case the capacitor shorts out. I also chucked in an SSD1315 OLED to show the time and a menu to configure it, although there's a web UI as well. The esp32 also means you can fetch the time from NTP. It also functions as a small heater since I used LDOs to step down 15v…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LaMetric Time▲130Internet-connected clock makes your space unique.
2017 · store.lametric.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · achariam.com · its alternatives →
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A living gallery of unusual, creative, and beautiful ways to display the current time.
6d ago · tkgally.github.io · its alternatives →
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