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Custom Made Arcade Clock
gryhnd:
Cool. First I saw of this thread.
I posted about my custom clock for my Home Theater/Game Room on AVS last year. Here's the jist of it:
--- Quote ---Preface: I couldn't find a clock for the HT I liked anywhere. I didn't want one I'd hear tic-tocking away, it needed to be visible in the dark but not glaring, and I wanted it to be theater themed in some way.
So I gave up and began designing my own:
* One sacrificial Craigslist $5 digital LED clock with photo sensor
* Scraps of MDF from my shop.
* A piece of galvanized flashing cut into the shape of a hinge
* alarm magnets to hold the 9V backup
* B&W Enamel paint
* Walmart $0.97 alphabet stickers
* white automotive pinstriping.
Total project materials cost...probably around $15
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severdhed:
Sorry for bumping such an old thread,but it was such an awesome topic, it was worth revisiting. Since it was recently mentioned in another thread, i figured i'd post a pic of the centipede clock that i made. i made this like 2 years ago and it has been sitting in my basement since we moved...when i saw this link, i figured i'd go look for it and bring it up into the family room and post a pic
so, lets see them, i'm sure more of you have made arcade clocks since this thread went inactive
Santoro:
LOVE the centipede face, did you create that?
It's still on my radar to sell arcade clocks, Real Life has kept me from finishing my prototype...
severdhed:
--- Quote from: Santoro on September 30, 2010, 08:26:37 pm ---LOVE the centipede face, did you create that?
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I told the lady at walmart i did ;), or she wouldn't give it to me when i went to pick up the print. however i can't take full credit for it. i found the main graphic using a google search, loaded it into photoshop and added the tick marks and made it round, and pasted in the centipede text that i copied from another pic i found online.(cover art from the playstation game if i recall correctly)
i just wish the damn clock wasn't so loud. i got the clock at a Family Dollar store for $3. i had to paint the hour and minute hands white because the black ones just didn't show up.