Bad LEDs don’t die. They just fade away and sometimes exceedingly quickly, like this LED nightlight example. Observant reader Clive Mitchell sent in this rather amusing example of a large display LED ...

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In an era when you might get chastised if your mobile phone is more than two years old, it’s easy to forget that hardware was not always meant to be a temporary commodity. We acknowledge a few ...

I like this. Following on from the creative use of LEDs with the Periodic Table, check out this smart shelving system, similarly driven by an Arduino and using LEDs, that serves as a clock. Not a ...

The purpose of a clock is to show the time, obviously. But if you’ve followed Hackaday for some time, you’ll know there are about a million different ways of achieving this. [illusionmanager] added ...

Using the THz-range resonance of a molecule rather than of atoms led to the development of a clock with nearly the performance of atomic clocks but fabricated as an IC. Atomic clocks based on ...

Which digital wall clock is best? Whether you need particularly large numbers, extra information such as temperature or features such as alarms and dimmable backlighting, a wide range of digital wall ...

Which Bluetooth alarm clock is best? Alarm clocks have long been combined with radios, but in recent years, many people have switched from listening to music on the radio to listening through music ...

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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. If you like waking up the (semi) old-fashioned way with a ...