Clocks was once dowdy previous issues with mechanical palms and generally even little cuckoo birds that might come out to chime the hour. [David] constructed one thing altogether extra trendy that makes use of shifting colours on LED strips to inform the time.

The core of the construct is an ESP8266, which queries an NTP time server to maintain itself synced up with the present time as precisely as potential. It then controls a WS2812B LED strip to show the time. The strip itself is hidden in a 3D-printed housing behind an opaque wood ring, with the sunshine from the LEDs diffusing out properly on to the wall upon which the clock is mounted.

The show exhibits three “palms” within the colours it initiatives on the wall. The purple second hand is projected inside and outdoors the ring. The minute hand is inexperienced, and initiatives outdoors the ring. In the meantime, the hour hand is blue, and initiatives contained in the ring. With none numerical markings, you received’t get an actual studying of the time, however you’ll be able to determine it out intently sufficient. As a bonus, the clock seems to be like a trendy light-based wall sculpture and your visitors might not even realizes it tells the time.

We’ve featured [David’s] work earlier than too, within the type of the useful ESP8266 breadboard socket. Video after the break.