One of the categories for the 2015 Hackaday prize is "best product." According to the contest home page, the criteria are to deliver three beta test units and prove that it's manufacturable.

In order to increase the manufacturability of the Crazy Clock, I've recently created a modified design. This design alter the shape of the PCB (preserving the schematic) to be an exact replacement for the circuit board that is found in the Quartex Q80 clock movement. I've obtained an initial production run of a few hundred of these boards and a few hundred Quartex clock movements. Using the new boards, I can retrofit a Quartex movement in only a couple of minutes.

There are two next steps to turn the Crazy Clock into a product.

1. Obtain a retail partner to provide a way for people to buy complete clocks. I'd love to talk to the folks at ThinkGeek, as I am fairly confident that they'd be the absolute best store for this product.

2. Do a deal with Primex (the folks who make the Quartex Q80 clock movements) to get them to build my board into the movements during manufacturing in lieu of their own board. I tried to talk to them about this last year, but talks bogged down. If I had a retail partner that was interested in sufficient volume (see 1 above), then that would go quite a way towards providing the leverage necessary to make this more likely.