My wife commented on them that they're "cool" and make good art exhibits, but for being practical she commented that if I asked her the time and we had the first one, her answer would probably be, "I don't know! Your clock isn't done making up it's mind yet!"
What bugs me is that many of these "cool clocks" are no such thing. The are mostly cool displays of regular time keeping technologies.
My Nixie clock really was cool. I built it before there were such things as digital clocks on the market. But even that was just a fancy counter chain and display counting cycles of mains power.
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If anyone can do it with a BS1, you can!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH4clQJ3VuA
"Oh, so now it's MY clock...."
I can see this going nowhere good, real fast!!
Kinda like telling the wife she's WRONG on her composting temperatures!!
My Nixie clock really was cool. I built it before there were such things as digital clocks on the market. But even that was just a fancy counter chain and display counting cycles of mains power.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5UI0Co6YHw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb_hXcdQlSI
And then there are the "paper clock" kits, but that's more of what you don't like...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Make-Your-Own-Working-Paper-Clock-Rudolph-James-Smith-Excellent-/350870521557?pt=US_Nonfiction_Book&hash=item51b18346d5#ht_178wt_917
Where and how do you find all of these cool thing that you post