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One of the best features of this clock (I have one and have been messing with it a while now) is the up to 100 kHz refresh rate and an analog LCD driver circuit that makes the digits not flicker even a bit, even when dimmed, with a high speed camera.

That and the fact it's the highest precision clock display I've ever owned!

It is certainly not inexpensive, but it's more of an art piece than a practical instrument, unless your eyes can see in the thousands-of-hertz range!



Note that it's LED, with each segment driven continuously with a variable voltage for brightness control. Even most LED drivers are multiplexed, with each segment flashing for a short time then going dark. This uses a separate dedicated buffer for every segment. This design is important for working well with high-speed cameras, an obvious use.


Super random but I seem to remember that you were working on/testing a different time device/prototype recently in a GitHub comment.

Can you perhaps refresh my memory? Been trying to find the reference and it's driving me nuts this am. Thanks.


Check my time-pi repository on GitHub: https://github.com/geerlingguy/time-pi




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