Binary Crap Clock

It has finally been released!

The Binary Crap Clock is yours to buy, breadboard or get printed. Everything is open source.

So if you have been following along with the creation of this beast you will already know that it is a CMOS driven clock that requires 2.7v-5.5v (ish).

It was inspired by those cheap seven segment clocks in acrylic cases only I didn’t want to use a micro-controller. So this crap clock uses CD4510, CD4027, CD4060 and the CD4081 to create a logic path for a Binary Coded Decimal display of a 24 hour clock.

 

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Parts list or bill of materials link

  • 1 x Pin header row, you need 7 pins minimum
  • 2 x Header jumpers
  • 1 x 32,768 crystal
  • 2 x 33pf through-hole capacitors
  • 1 x CD4060 SO16
  • 1 x CD4027 SO16
  • 1 x CD4081 SO16
  • 6 x CD4510 SO16

 

  • 1 x 10uf through-hole capacitor
  • 2 x Momentary buttons
  • 20 x 0805 470 ohm resistors
  • 4 x Diodes (doesn’t matter which ones really but they are through-hole)
  • 5 x 0805 10K ohm resistors
  • 1 x 0805 330K ohm resistors
  • 2 x 0805 6.3M ohm resistors
  • 6 x 100nf through-hole capacitors
  • 20 x 5mm LEDs
  • PCB Kinda needed unless you breadboard it up with all through-hole components.

Schematic and Board Layout (PDF 6MB)

binaryClockEagleFiles (ZIP 115KB)

Semi-tutorial/build video…

2 thoughts on “Binary Crap Clock

  1. Hi David.

    I have just watched your youtube video with the c64 twitter project, and it has inspired me to do something with mine. I have bought a GLINKUSB-LT – User Port RS232 to USB from https://gglabs.us that plugs into the user port. I have managed to send text from the c64 to the pc and i am now trying to receive. I typed in the program from the ‘commodore 64 programmers reference manual’ page 357, but it seems to return weird characters and i remeber you saying you had the same. How did you fix this?

    Thanks

    Dave

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