Have any dead hard drives kicking around? Hackaday alum [Jeremy Cook] shows how easy it is to disassemble a hard drive to scavenge its goodies. The hardest part is having the patience and the tools to ...

For some reason I have it in my head that clocks are rather redundant. I don’t think I own one any more? Do you? I’m not talking about microwaves or stereos or radios and such with clocks in them but ...

The HDD clock is built around a PIC16F628 microcontroller capable of reading IR sensor and lighting LEDs at right hard drive platter position. There are 12 high power LEDs being used by the clock for ...

You can get a cheap quartz movement for a clock for a few bucks. Or, go to Walmart or Target and rip it out of a really cheap wall clock. They're quite accurate and run off of one AA battery. I made a ...

It seems that the more hectic life gets, the harder it is to consciously slow down and enjoy the experience. There’s always another bill to worry about, and a new deadline around the corner. The last ...

The project utilizes a defective hard drive as the case for the clock together with the Atmel AT90S2313 to produce a binary clock device. The design consists of two 6-bit registers, one for seconds ...

It is a clock of a hard disk that seems to fit in a retro atmosphere room. Although it is a hard disk of a modern image, it seems that it can be used as an interior with a little ingenuity. Details ...