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6 - Putting everything together.

A project log for One hertz sculpture

Slowing down a ring oscillator enough to make it tick seconds

pierre-loup-mPierre-Loup M. 07/30/2025 at 10:312 Comments

The circuit is assembled in freeform. A small template frame has been made to place each component and solder them together to form the nine gates with led and RC circuit.

Those gates have then been assembled on two rings made of 0.8mm brass wire. A simple paper template has been made to align each gate ate a 40° angle. The external ring brings VCC, the internal rings GND.

This assembly is mounted on a black 4mm acrylic plate, by three pegs on each ring, two of them being traversent to the back face.

On the back face are mounted a lipo battery, an Adafruit lipo charger with USB C, and a switch. The battery can then be charged, and the circuit powered from battery or AC adapter.

A wooden frame has been made, with the lower border mounted by two countersunk screws : it can be opened if needed, the circuit removed and cleaned or repared, the glass changed f broken, etc.

The circuit is 135mm in diameter, the frame is 180x180x37mm.

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wootmaster wrote 08/13/2025 at 23:31 point

very cool idea and understandable explanation

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wootmaster wrote 08/13/2025 at 23:31 point

vi de o   Vi de o vi de oooo!!!!!

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