Dial

 Dial: An over-engineered clock

 

I’ve always liked clocks. Dial is a timepiece that houses localized knock detection, disco emulation, automatic time synchronization, and a digital clock face.

 
 
Team member testing a glowing purple Dial clock at an electronics bench
 
 

The project was built with Trevor Pennypacker and Hyun Ji Jung with machining help from my roommate Spencer Collins. We wrote firmware using the mbed platform on a LPC1768 controller. All embedded systems code was in-house, with the exception of a Fourier library we found on the internet for live music frequency response. The final product was machined from a solid piece of 12” aluminum to perfectly fit the LED light strip and custom center acrylic face.

 

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