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The purpose of a clock is to show the time, obviously. But if you’ve followed Hackaday for some time, you’ll know there are about a million different ways of achieving this. [illusionmanager] added ...

Based on an Atmel AVR microcontroller with 8kB flash, the LED clock uses a German time signal in the form of DCF77 Receiver as it was connected to an Ethernet network to serve as a NTP server while ...

The dead flies are then digested by bacteria within the microbial fuel cell. This digestion process leads to chemical changes that generate electricity, which is then used to power the LED clock. This ...