Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
Video Clocks
Home: California, United States
Video Clocks. These are clocks like you’ve never seen before. Freed from the limitations of physical clocks, these clocks use video to show the time. Artful, crafty, humorous, and sometimes just head scratching. Come see what they are like. Learn how you can make your own video clocks. And think about what your video clock would look like? I’ll have some free video clock thumb drives to help you get started.
https://www.TheVideoClock.com/
Maker
Ken Wilkinson
I make clocks. I’ve made physical clocks. I’ve made clock fiction. And now I make video clocks. These are some of my video clocks from the past few years.
https://www.TheVideoClock.com/What Inspired You to Make This?
After a couple years of making physical clocks, I added writing fiction as a way to explore clock ideas I was unable to create. What evolved was a story about a world of very strange clocks. Clocks that used color or music to give the time. Ten base time and time based food. Clothes, animals and dance as clocks. Clocks that reference geography or stories to measure time. Most ideas were fantastical, some were remotely achievable. Two ideas intrigued me: code-based clocks that are drawn on the fly and clocks that use video to show the time. These are the clocks that came out of those ideas.
