North Carolina Maker Faire.

I dragged my family to the North Carolina Maker Faire today, though in the end, my wife probably had more fun than all of us.

I was absolutely giddy when I came across these:

This picture doesn't convey how tiny this thing is. For reference, check it out on the left
in the next picture. You can buy these here: Synthetos Word Clock

The booth was run by this group: 

http://wyolum.com/index.php

They had some really high end looking clocks. 

Ok, this has motivated me to get working on continuing my word-clock series.

Word Clock, Part 1

This was probably my biggest, most ambitious electronics project I've done so far. (And also one of my first)
It was inspired by this:
http://www.instructables.com/id/A-Word-Clock/, which in turn was inspired by: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/09/qlocktwo-clock-tells-time-with-word.html.  (I see that the guy who did the instructables clock has since done new version of it, it looks really nice.)

Anyway, here is mine:

My word clock. If I could have taken a picture that hid the flaws, I would have :)