Harbor Lites Wall Clock

A vintage 1956 pinball backglass becomes a word clock.

Randy Elwin

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This 1956 vintage Gottlieb Harbor Lites pinball backglass uses 43 Neopixels, which is more than enough to display 12 hours, 10’s of minutes, minutes, and a few more lights for seconds.

A recent software upgrade now shows temperature (in F) as well, where the lighthouse shows decades, 100k is ones, and the color changes from cool blue (colder than 70) to green (70's), to yellow (warmer than 79.) The example picture shows 67 degrees F.

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1 × wood: 8’x 2.5”x0.75” pine board
1 × wood: pine 1.5” trim
1 × vintage backglass
1 × paint swatches to hide flaked areas
1 × wood: 1/8" plywood

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Randy Elwin wrote 12/11/2019 at 18:54

My brother owns the game and bought a repro backglass, giving me the old original. http://shayarcadegroup.com/backglasses sells many vintage bg's for about $300.

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Dan Maloney wrote 12/11/2019 at 17:20

Congratulations, looks great. I'd think that intact backglasses are hard to come by - whered you get this one?

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