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Here’s the product of my Sunday evening. It’s a clock that ticks counterclockwise. But is it really counterclockwise if that’s the direction the clock is ticking?<\/p>\n

Don’t take my word for it, see for yourself<\/a> [422 KB MPEG4 (codec required) < -- hooray for XviD 4.97 MB AVI warning. I know it’s huge; I don’t have time to recompress; deal with it.<\/font>]<\/p>\n

So I’ll admit, I followed an online guide to making clocks tick backward<\/a>. I happened to see the guide on hackaday.com<\/a>, and thought it was cool. Then on Sunday my ICPC team and I were in the bookstore buying binders and other supplies for the contest next week, and Ray mentioned that he wanted a new travel alarm clock. So we looked at the clocks, and this one was only $5.50 or so, so I thought “why not? if I break it, it was only $6.” So I bought it, took it apart, made the appropriate modification and reassembled it. The longest part of the process was actually creating the new clock face to put inside it. I wanted one that would still accurately display the time, so I made one in the GIMP<\/a>. It was harder than I anticipated because I had to measure out 6° rays from the center point to draw the dots so that they would actually line up with the clock hands. You can download my clock face in native GIMP format<\/a> or JPEG<\/a>, if you so desire.<\/p>\n

A word to the budding clock modder in all of you: take the face off the clock first, as there are probably screws hidden behind it. Fortunately I realized this before resorting to breaking the back off when I couldn’t get the thing taken apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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