A Bulbdial Clock
Last year David Friedman published on his blog Ironic Sans an interesting design concept for something that he called The Bulbdial Clock. That’s like a sundial, but with better resolution– not just an...
View ArticleEvil Mad Scientist Laboratories: Year 3
Happy birthday to us! Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories is now three years old. To celebrate, we're rounding up our most interesting projects from this past year. Quick projects and observations: 17...
View ArticleThe Bulbdial Clock Kit
Back in April, we posted a little project in which we demonstrated a simple Bulbdial clock, based on the original concept from IronicSans.com. We had a lot of feedback on the original project. We...
View ArticleComBots Cup IV this weekend!
Come join us at the ComBots Cup at the San Mateo Fairgrounds on Saturday, December 19 and Sunday, December 20 from 2-7 pm. (Get tickets here.) And if taking your loved ones to see combat robotics...
View ArticleEvil Mad Scientist Laboratories: Year 4
Happy birthday to us! Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has now been around for four years. We've collected some interesting projects from this past year to celebrate. Microcontroller and Electronics...
View ArticleOn the design of the Bulbdial Clock
One of our favorite projects of the last year is our Bulbdial Clock, an LED shadow clock based on an idea from Ironic Sans. And, while we have written a fair bit about it, we haven’t yet taken the...
View ArticleFrom the mailbag
Michael wrote in to say: I ordered a Bulbdial Clock kit from your company on Wednesday Feb 7, 2013; it was waiting for me at the door on the 9th. Suffice it to say that I was extremely pleased with...
View ArticleField Trips: Atmel Headquarters
Super Awesome Sylvia and I were invited to attend Bring Your Kids to Work Day at Atmel recently. (Atmel, of course, is the company that makes the microcontrollers found inside Arduino products and in...
View ArticleBulbdial Clock Assembly Timelapse
Andreif shared this timelapse of building a Bulbdial Clock Kit on twitter: Bulbdial from @EMSL completed. Thanks again to @maltman23 & @jprodgers for the terrific solder workshop at @netz39.
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