The 10,000 Year Clock is up and running — and now that the plans are online, you can construct your own nigh-immortal timepiece The Long Now Foundation’s 10,000 Year Clock — a beautifully crafted ...

The story of the 10,000-year clock began in 1995, when computer scientist and inventor Danny Hillis published an essay in Wired magazine's issue titled "Wired Scenarios: The Future Future." In it, he ...

Commercial smart alarm clocks run $50 to $150 for a device that does exactly what the manufacturer decided it should do. You can't expand it or change it, and what you bought is what you get. Mine, on ...

You can use a microcontroller to build a clock. After all, a clock is just something that counts the passage of time. The only problem is that microcontrollers can’t track time very accurately. They ...

To measure time, you need a constant rhythm. For eons, the regular movements of the sun and moon have set the pace for all of life on Earth. But over millennia, humans have sought and found more ...

Unique clocks are a mainstay around here, and while plenty are “human readable” without any instruction, there are a few that take a bit of practice before someone can glean the current time from them ...