Hackaday

Building A Sliding Tile Clock

Hackers like making clocks, and we like reporting on them around these parts. Particularly if they’ve got a creative mechanism that we haven’t seen before. This fine timepiece from [gooikerjh] fits ...
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Jeff Bezos spent $42 million building a 10,000-year cuckoo clock that ticks once a year — calls it a ‘symbol for long-term thinking’

Most people struggle to plan next year’s vacation. Amazon an d Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos helped build a clock designed to outlive entire civilizations. During an appearance on the "Lex Fridman ...
Eurasia Review

Building A Safer And More Affordable Nuclear Clock

In the quest for ultra-precise timekeeping, scientists have turned to nuclear clocks. Unlike optical atomic clocks—which rely on electronic transitions—nuclear clocks utilize the energy transitions in ...
Design News

Building a Wall/Desk Clock With a Customized Arduino and NeoPixel Displays

Every maker needs a geeky wall clock and the geekiest way to get one is to build your own. With so many modular and open-source options, building your own decorative clock is far from the most ...
Benzinga.com

Is Jeff Bezos Building A 10,000-Year Clock Worth $42M? Here's What You Should Know

Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos has a hobby of his own – he is helping build a 10,000-year clock that ticks just once a year. In 2011, Bezos shared an update on the clock’s construction, stating ...
Hackaday

Making A Clock With A Retooled Unihiker K10

The Unihiker K10 is intended to be a small single-board solution for light AI and machine learning tasks. However, you don’t have to use it in that way if you don’t want to. [mircemk] figured out how ...
American Physical Society

Building a Scalable Ion Clock with a Coulomb Crystal

Researchers have built an optical clock using an array of trapped ions—an architecture that can be scaled up to boost the clock’s precision. Improving the precision of optical clocks depends on ...

Scientists build world's most accurate atomic clock

Take a second and turn it into trillions of moments. Measure each one. That's how precisely an atomic clock at Singapore's ...
Snopes.com

Is Jeff Bezos Building a '10,000 Year Clock' Costing $42M?

The story of the 10,000-year clock began in 1995, when computer scientist and inventor Danny Hillis published an essay in Wired magazine's issue titled "Wired Scenarios: The Future Future." In it, he ...
gizmodo

How to Build a Clock That Will Outlast the Apocalypse

The 10,000 Year Clock is up and running — and now that the plans are online, you can construct your own nigh-immortal timepiece The Long Now Foundation’s 10,000 Year Clock — a beautifully crafted ...
Yahoo

Jeff Bezos Spent $42 Million Building a 10,000-Year Cuckoo Clock That Ticks Once a Year — Calls It a ‘Symbol for Long-Term Thinking’

Most people struggle to plan next year's vacation. Amazon an d Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos helped build a clock designed to outlive entire civilizations. "The 10,000-year clock is an idea conceived ...