binary clock kit?

[[cc]z@nd!]

man, i've been looking everywhere for plans or a kit or any way to build a binary clock. i've seen some crappy kits that use lame binary, giving each seperate digit a column of LEDs to use to display the number (0-9) in binary, but that's gay. i've been trying to find a way to build one taht's a bit more hardcore, like this:





as opposed to this:





why i want it to be different? because the second one is lame. get to read a 3-bit to 4-bit binary number on a clock that looks like every single other one poeple have? if i'm going to build a clock, it'll be different.

my design: green = am/pm, yellow = hours, red = minutes, and the sorta red stuff below the minutes are seconds i may or may not have in the final plan.

anyways, cutting to the chase, i'm wondering if anyone else here knows electronics well enough to know how i can do this, or can point me somewhere that can tell me or help me.

or maybe you guys have suggestions for the design?


oh, and when i eventually get around to making it, i'll make a tutorial/walkthrough to do this and post it here, so if you want you guys can do this with easy instructions.

[[cc]z@nd!]

wait, i think i found my solution with some digging...

http://www.gimpfaq.org/tutorials/binclock/

i guess digg was better suited for this than google. anyways, i guess now that i have a plan, i just need to learn how to read it, where to get the supplies, and do it. count on seeing a walkthrough/how-to soon.

[fishface617]

hmm, this is cool. Im looking forward to a tutorial. =)

[[cc]z@nd!]

yeah, now i just need one on reading electrical schematics XP.

[a mammoth]

Have fun with that.

You should definitely put a seconds thing on there, cause that would just be more awesome.