Wooden LCD clock make
The obligatory re-housing LCD clock project! Something a bit different for this blog post. No programming/electronics/hack blog would be complete without the obligatory (and I have to say, much maligned) taking-apart-an-LCD-clock-and-putting-it-into-a-pretty-box project! So here's mine! I've had an old LCD clock sitting obediently on my project desk for a while now, diligently telling me how late it is and how I should really go to bed soon. Curiosity got the better of me one afternoon and I took a small screwdriver to the whole thing and ended up with its guts on the desk in front of me. The LCD screen itself is composed of a glass plate, embedded with the liquid crystal , various polarised filters, and a backing plane of a reflective foil. Scrapping off the backing foil reveals a beautiful object - a piece of glass with lettering floating ethereally. This clock wasn't going back together in its original form, so my hand was pleasantly forced to assem