Dieselstation Car Forums > nice clock hack

Diesel

Mar 4 2005, 10:15 AM

høgh

Mar 4 2005, 10:19 AM

Wow, fucking awesome! The best part is that the clock is still working!

BankieVR6

Mar 4 2005, 10:38 AM

hahaha, thats ridiculously cool. gotta know quite a bit of EE tho. awesome post

z0ne

Mar 4 2005, 02:05 PM

QUOTE(BankieVR6 @ Mar 4 2005, 01:38 PM)

hahaha, thats ridiculously cool. gotta know quite a bit of EE tho. awesome post

"EE?" electrical experience/epertise(sp?)?

anyway, thats a pretty cool idea, but, if anyone here was going to try it, just make sure you are careful soldering it .. i got burned when i was modding my case..

Edit: i think i may try this with an old clock i have.. it wasl ike 4.99 at target and i want to put it in an old case i have that i use for a LAN server

Dylan

Mar 4 2005, 02:24 PM

Are there instructions?

BankieVR6

Mar 4 2005, 02:26 PM

QUOTE(adio882 @ Mar 4 2005, 06:05 PM)

"EE?" electrical experience/epertise(sp?)?

anyway, thats a pretty cool idea, but, if anyone here was going to try it, just make sure you are careful soldering it .. i got burned when i was modding my case..

Edit: i think i may try this with an old clock i have.. it wasl ike 4.99 at target and i want to put it in an old case i have that i use for a LAN server

electrical engineering

Diesel

Mar 4 2005, 02:38 PM

it's in swedish. http://www.paulanders.com/G5-LED/

Dylan

Mar 4 2005, 02:40 PM

Any swedish speakers here?

Cyclone

Mar 4 2005, 02:49 PM

QUOTE(BankieVR6 @ Mar 4 2005, 01:38 PM)

hahaha, thats ridiculously cool. gotta know quite a bit of EE tho. awesome post

Actually from the looks of that, its a very simple mod. I know jack shit about EE but desoldering the LCD looking thing from the board and soldering leds in the solder points looks very straight forward and easy juding by looking at the traces on the board.

CHiNo4ReaL

Mar 4 2005, 03:04 PM

thats nice!

NorthPoint

Mar 4 2005, 03:18 PM

QUOTE(Dylan @ Mar 4 2005, 05:40 PM)

Any swedish speakers here?

Give me a couple of minutes...

EDIT: Ah forget it, too much of a pain in the ass to translate...

DakianDelomast

Mar 4 2005, 05:16 PM

Nice G5!

Dylan

Mar 4 2005, 07:23 PM

QUOTE(NorthPoint @ Mar 4 2005, 07:18 PM)

Give me a couple of minutes...

EDIT: Ah forget it, too much of a pain in the ass to translate...

Pweeease? C'mon, if you translate it, I'll do it. I have a case like that.

Viper007Bond

Mar 4 2005, 07:38 PM

That looks super easy actually. Hell, I'm a mechy and I bet I could do it.

The original display was basically big, long LEDs. A wire per elelment.

Example, an 8 is really this: (ignore the periods)

CODE

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You just asign each bar to a couple LEDs that reproduce that bar and you're set.

Dylan

Mar 6 2005, 11:22 AM

TRANSLAT'D!
http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/12340008...34515/#comments

one

Mar 6 2005, 11:34 AM

YESSSSSSS.

Now to switch to the dark side.

porsche944

Mar 6 2005, 07:58 PM

Did you do this diesel?

fiber optic

Mar 7 2005, 04:24 AM

QUOTE(Viper007Bond @ Mar 4 2005, 09:38 PM)

That looks super easy actually. Hell, I'm a mechy and I bet I could do it.

The original display was basically big, long LEDs. A wire per elelment.

Example, an 8 is really this: (ignore the periods)

CODE

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You just asign each bar to a couple LEDs that reproduce that bar and you're set.

They're called 7-segment displays. He pretty much just took two regular LEDs and wired them together to the output for each segment.

Viper007Bond

Mar 7 2005, 04:49 AM

Oh, and screw using UV light and all that crazy stuff for etching your board. A paint pen is what I always use.