[Lab] Making clocks with physical media

[Darcy Whyte]

Or a couple of small stickers? Just a few small lines to mark the 12, 3, 6,
9?



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On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:32 PM, mike Jans <mjans at live.com> wrote:

> That looks promising. I think I'll be picking up a stack of CD's sometime
> soon and give it a try.
>
> Thanks Andrew.
>
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> From: andrew at plumb.org
> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:39:36 -0400
> To: lab at artengine.ca
> Subject: Re: [Lab] Making clocks with physical media
>
> Closest I can find is this:
>
>
> http://www.instructables.com/id/Burning-visible-images-onto-CD-Rs-with-data-beta/
>
> Andrew.
>
> On 2013-05-22, at 10:35 AM, mike Jans wrote:
>
> I recently saw a clock made from an old hard drive. I had an old laptop
> hard drive kicking around myself, so I built a tiny one. Its primary
> purpose is to be a novelty item and decorate my office, but sometimes I
> look at it for the time too. Unfortunately, it lacks any markings or
> numbers to help read the time so its only really good for getting a rough
> idea of the time.
>
> I got thinking though, when you burn a DVD, it changes colour where the
> information is stored. How hard would it be to burn the clock markings and
> times either radially or with a uniform "up" direction into the disk? Has
> anyone ever seen a similar project or method for burning specific
> shapes/patterns into a disc?
>
> Mike
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