Alpha Clock Five

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

Main details about Alpha Clock Five:

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

Product pages:

• Alpha Clock Five, White edition: Product page at Evil Mad Scientist
• Alpha Clock Five, Red edition: Product page at Evil Mad Scientist
• Alpha Clock Five, Basic edition: Product page at Evil Mad Scientist

Assembly instructions:

• Alpha Clock Five, Red editions:
  • Assembly Instructions, 20 MB PDF (Trouble Viewing? Please click here.)
  • Page-by-page HTML version
• Alpha Clock Five, White edition:
  • Assembly instructions: coming week of Oct. 29, 2012

Usage instructions:

• For Alpha Clock Five units with firmware v. 1.0:
  • The Alpha Clock Five User Interface Guide, 0.1 MB PDF
  • Serial Communication with Alpha Clock Five
• For Alpha Clock Five units with firmware v. 2.0:
  • User Interface Guide: coming week of Oct. 29, 2012
  • Serial Communication: coming week of Oct. 29, 2012

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, Red editions: available here (400 kB .zip file)
  • Alpha Clock Five, White edition: coming week of Oct. 29, 2012

• Electrical schematics in PDF format:
  • Alpha Clock Five, Red editions: fiveletter.pdf
  • Alpha Clock Five, White edition: coming week of Oct. 29, 2012

• Acrylic case for Alpha Clock Five: Design file (Inkscape SVG) is available here.
• Source code: See Alpha Clock Firmware

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