{"id":15024,"date":"2012-06-07T06:23:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T11:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15024"},"modified":"2012-06-04T17:38:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T22:38:27","slug":"the-chronulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15024","title":{"rendered":"The Chronulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/chronulator.jpg\" alt=\"Chronulator\" title=\"Chronulator\" width=\"109\" height=\"128\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>ShareBrained Technology offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharebrained.com\/chronulator\/\">this<\/a> wonderful and ridiculous open-source clock&#8230;thingie.  You can buy it fully assembled, as a kit, or as a raw circuit board.  If you&#8217;re really brave and\/or have too much time on your hands, they even sell the circuit board layout so you can print your own.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Chronulator starts life as a clock, showing the hours and minutes on two old-school analog panel meters. Dress it up to look like old test equipment, audio VU meters, or motorcycle gauges.  Mount it in a picture frame, shadow box, computer case, plush toy, pumpkin&#8230; Customize the code and hardware to make the meters indicate something other than time &#8212; network traffic\/lag, outside temperature, freeway congestion, terror threat level, stress level, whatever! Let your imagination run free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The image shown here is a sort of steampunky design, but users are encouraged to share their own models on the site&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharebrained.com\/forums\/\">forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also just launched a new design, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharebrained.com\/2012\/05\/30\/the-monulator\/\">Monulator<\/a>, which can be wired up to report anything you want: &#8220;chance of precipitation, time until your next meeting, Twitter mentions, CPU load, stock market change, or a million other things.&#8221;  So you could stick one in a ouija board and use it to count down the days to Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I can&#8217;t <em>wait<\/em> until Shadowboy is old enough to learn to solder.  These would be a hoot to build with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShareBrained Technology offers this wonderful and ridiculous open-source clock&#8230;thingie. You can buy it fully assembled, as a kit, or as a raw circuit board. If you&#8217;re really brave and\/or have too much time on your hands, they even sell the circuit board layout so you can print your own. The Chronulator starts life as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15024"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15037,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15024\/revisions\/15037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}