Alpha Clock Five

This page is the central documentation site for Alpha Clock Five from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.

Introductory articles about Alpha Clock Five:

• Announcement article about Alpha Clock Five at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
• Announcement article about Alpha Clock Five firmware v. 2.0 and Alpha Clock Five, White Edition
• Announcement article about Alpha Clock Five, Blue Edition

Product pages:

• Alpha Clock Five, Red Edition, and Red Basic Edition
• Alpha Clock Five, White Edition, and White Basic Edition
• Alpha Clock Five, Blue Edition

Assembly instructions:

• Alpha Clock Five, Kit version 2.0 (red, blue, or white):
  • Assembly Instructions, 25 MB PDF (Trouble Viewing? Please click here.)
  • Page-by-page HTML version
• Older Alpha Clock Five, Kit versions 1.5 or earlier:
  • Assembly Instructions, 20 MB PDF (Trouble Viewing? Please click here.)
  • Page-by-page HTML version

Usage instructions:

• For Alpha Clock Five units with firmware v. 2.0:
  • User Interface Guide (pdf)
  • Serial Communication
• For older Alpha Clock Five units with firmware v. 1.0:
  • User Interface Guide (pdf)
  • Serial Communication

Alpha Clock Five Projects:

• Interfacing Alpha Clock Five with xBEE
• Alpha Clock Five based Bike turn signal
• Adding GPS time sync and automatic DST adjustment to Alpha Clock Five

Open Source Documentation:

Alpha Clock Five is an open source hardware+software project. The hardware designs are licensed under the TAPR OHL.

• Circuit board design files, in gEDA:
  • Alpha Clock Five, "Rev B" Red editions: available here (400 kB .zip file)
  • Alpha Clock Five, all other versions: available here (400 kB .zip file)

• Electrical schematics in PDF format:
  • Alpha Clock Five, "Rev B" Red editions: fiveletter.pdf
  • Alpha Clock Five, all other versions: fiveletter_RevC.pdf

• Acrylic case for Alpha Clock Five: Design file (Inkscape SVG) is available here (Inkscape 0.9) and here (Inkscape v 1, with additional back piece holes).
• Firmware: Discussed in detail here.

Places for questions, answers, and sharing experiences:

• Clock kit forum at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
• See also: Archived Forums, with older discussions
• Evil Mad Science Auxiliary Flickr Group where you can share photos of your Alpha Clock Five, modifications, and derivatives