Alpha Clock Five
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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 1.5 or earlier:
- Assembly Instructions, 20 MB PDF (Trouble Viewing? Please click here.)
- Page-by-page HTML version
- Alpha Clock Five, Kit version 2.0:
- Assembly Instructions, 25 MB PDF (Trouble Viewing? Please click here.)
- Page-by-page HTML version
- Note: For Blue Alpha Clock Five kits, follow the instructions given for building white kits. (Only the final color is different.)
Usage instructions:
- For Alpha Clock Five units with firmware v. 1.0:
- For Alpha Clock Five units with firmware v. 2.0:
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.
- 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