For those looking to build their own clocks, one of the easiest ways to get started is with a pre-built module that uses a simple quartz oscillator and drives a set of hands. This generally doesn’t ...

Birdwatching has long been a popular hobby. Although some take it to the extreme, going on expeditions equipped with binoculars or logbooks, sitting on a back porch and watching birds splash in a ...

My apartment has become a noisier place. Interruptions seem to come every hour. In fact, they come exactly every hour. Thanks to my offspring, I now have not one but two clocks on which the hours are ...

This Dippy Bird clock display is simple to build and it’s just waiting to be scaled up for use as a full clock. As shown there are only enough birds in this rendition to read out the hours. More tiers ...