Build a real bell-striking clock for your PC and a fire extinguisher-striking clock.

A brass bell, a small relay a few more things and a real bell can strike the hours on your desktop. Though this project runs on Windows and Mac OS X also, I idecided to install Ubuntu Linux on a PC I found in the trash and work on that : I had never worked with Linux before, I learned some Processing language and wrote a sketch to run an analog clock on it. Then I interfaced the bell to the serial port of the PC and built this bell striking clock. Read further and learn how to make a fire extinguisher striking clock also. In the video the clapper strikes a bit too fast for the camera... clock_analog.pde1 KBPC striking clock.AVI8 MBclock_analog.zip1 MB

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