| Binary Clock |
| What is a binary clock??? I saw one day while browsing the net that someone was selling Binary Clocks. I took a look and found that the clocks used LED's arranged in a matrix to display the time in binary. Not much use if you can't read binary numbers but it makes for a clock which is totally unrecognizable to the untrained eye. Binary (or actually Binary Coded Decimal in the case of these clocks)works like this: Each LED is given a number [1] [2] [4] [8] if any LED is on, that number is added to the others therefore, 0 is 1 is () 2 is () 3 is () () 4 is () 5 is () () 6 is () () 7 is () () () 8 is () 9 is () () in the clock, the LEDs go from hours to seconds from left to right and 8 is the top LED and the bottom LED is 1 8 () () () () () () 4 () () () () () () 2 () () () () () () 1 () () () () () () H H M M S S o o i i e e u u n n c c r r u u o o s s t t n n e e d d 1 1 s s s s 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 I figured writing a binary clock for my PC would be good for a laugh and a whole lot cheaper than buying one. Try it out, click on an 'illuminated' LED to toggle the border and right click on it in the taskbar and use the menu to close it. It is a really good way to practise reading binary aswell. If you find any bugs, please E-Mail me. |