The Pin Clock
This clock face is 3,000 pins arranged side-by-side. With each passing minute, pins lift, retract, and reshuffle to display the current time. A quiet "click" sounds with every change, and a transparent cover keeps out curious fingers.
Written on February 16, 2008 – 5:12 am | by Dana |
This clock face is 3,000 pins arranged side-by-side. With each passing minute, pins lift, retract, and reshuffle to display the current time. A quiet "click" sounds with every change, and a transparent cover keeps out curious fingers.
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13 Responses to “The Pin Clock”
By Nick on Feb 17, 2008 | Reply
That looks so cool! It would be better if there was some sort of effect that happened whenever the numbers changed, just to effectively use all the pins for maximum awe-factor..
By Walter Wear on Feb 17, 2008 | Reply
thats an awesome idea nick now i want one that has your feature lol
By Nuno Lagoa on Feb 17, 2008 | Reply
It looks great during day time. But what about at night or when the light level is low?
By Richard on Feb 17, 2008 | Reply
I bought one of these a few years ago. After 1 night of non-stop clicking ALL FREAKING NIGHT LONG I returned it. The clicks don’t sound loud in the daytime, but they are PLENTY loud at night!
By Patrick S on Feb 18, 2008 | Reply
Where did you find this? Any place it’s being sold? Where did you find this?
By Dana on Feb 18, 2008 | Reply
I’m glad you like it!
By Garfunkel on Feb 19, 2008 | Reply
I think i saw one of these featured in the movie First Born with Elizabeth Shue.
Pretty cool idea, but i think it would drive me nuts..
By Traburke on Feb 21, 2008 | Reply
I got this once as a gift I had it on for about an hour and never turned it on again
By nensondubois.com on Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
I want one.
By vinnie on Feb 23, 2008 | Reply
this site is selling them but are sold out right now, thanks for the heads up, this is a nice peice
http://www.signals.com/signals/Item_Battery-Operated-Pin-Clock_HA5332_ps_dpr.html
By Philippe Roy on Feb 29, 2008 | Reply
Awesome!! That is totally awesome! Love the clock and the concept… but I gotta agree with Walter (kinda)… it be nice to have a feature face print or something in it as well!
By Joe Pike on Mar 7, 2008 | Reply
Philippe Roy must have a very small face.
By blastermaster728 on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
I have one of these clocks in my room.
They’re not actually 3,000 pins, and they’re sections of pins.
It’s basically just like a normal digital clock with digits that look like that, except that instead of turning on and off the cells to make the time, it pushes out and retracts those same sections that make up that part of the digit, and all of those pins are affixed to (I’m guessing) a plate of some sort.
Also, about the clicking, yes, it clicks once a minute because that’s just it changing the time, it doesn’t retract the pins slowly, it’s just a *click click click click click etc…* because it clicks each plate, just in case that plate had slid out. Admittedly the first night or two, the clicking was damn annoying, but now I’ve gotten so used to it that I don’t even notice it anymore, just like how you would learn to ignore ambient noises in your environment.