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Hey /diy/,
I was thinking about making a binary watch for a long time now, but had no way of actually making one. Now that I have access to some tools and have some spare cash for parts I want to actually build one. However, I want to make it truly something else, so I thought I'd make it use small cylinders, around a milimeter in diameter, popping up out of watches' surface (a milimeter or two at most) to mark a bit being 1 instead of zero.
Now how would I do it at such small scale? Magnetic coils? The cylinders would be pretty light, but I fear that magnetic solution would fuck with the microcontroller ( because fuck building binary adders from scratch) and drain battery fast. Is there some elegant mechanical solution here? I realize it's a high order, so to make it a bit more probable I'd probably settle for some other shape with bigger surface. I wouldn't want to increase the travel height though, the watch it's already going to be pretty thick, I think.
Pic semi related, it'll probably be me when I actually sit down to do this.
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>>1226319
Why not compromise and make a desk clock?
Coils would be an easy solution with that.
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>>1226332
This will be vain but I kinda want to show off. I didn't use to wear watches in the past, but I want to stop using my phone to check time. Also I think being able to read binary on the fly is a neat, albeit useless skill, and having a binary watch would be a great learning tool.
I'll probably build a desk clock too at some point. But it's more or less useless for me right now
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Sounds a bit like a Braille digital watch
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