AMY E MARTIN // Blog

So we presented our final versions of our clocks yesterday. I was up for most of the week trying to complete them all, unfortunately I did not finish the rain clock or the atomic clock, but there's a bunch of other stuff that's up now (though it requires serious polishing). Here are some of my favorites.

Petri dish clock from below ended up being new petri dish clock above. Sound/cat clock doesn't display the time visually other than responding to a heartbeat sample that beats every second and speeds up over the course of the minute. Every 15 minutes a sample of my cat's voice plays and at the top of the hour, an alarm with a scary cat sound plus a chime that rings the hours goes off.

Block clock just spins. The hours are the darkest, the minutes are the lighter brown (in 5 minute chunks) and the white smaller blocks are the seconds.

Storm clock is the least clock-like of my clocks. Rain falls according to the milliseconds but it's impossible to read. At the top of every minute lightning flashes and thunder booms to tell the hour. Growing up in the South, thunderstorms were common. We'd count "one-one thousand, two-one thousand" after every lightning flash to see how far away the storm was. My storm clock takes that memory and applies it telling the time. If you count the seconds after the lightning hits, the thunder will sound at the correct hour.