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Tri-State Time

Quartz clock with a trinary display

Tri-State Time
Tri-State Time

Inspired by a binary clock he saw at a mathematics museum the author of this design went one step further and came up with a more mathematically challenging timepiece...

This unusual large format digital clock in the photo shows the time in binary and is exhibited at the German Museum of Mathematics ‘Mathematikum’ in the town of Giessen, Germany. The museum is the brainchild of Prof. Beutelsbacher and has been described as the fi rst ‘hands-on’ mathematical museum in the world.

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Component list

Resistors

R1-R8 = 220 ?

R9-R26 = 1k?8

R27-R37 = 100k?

R38 = 4M?7

R39 = 270k?

Capacitors

C1 = 27pF

C2 = 100pF

C3 = 100?F 25V radial

C4-C15 = 100nF

Semiconductors

D1-D8 = bicolour LED, red/green, common cathode (e.g. Conrad Electronics 185000)

D9- D22 = 1N4148

T1-T18 = BC547B

IC1-IC9 = 4017

IC10 = 4060

IC11 = 4081

IC12 = 4013

Miscellaneous

JP1,JP2 = 3-way SIL pinheader with jumper, or miniature changeover switch

X1 = 32.768kHz quartz crystal

7 wire links

PCB, ref. 060030-1 from www.thepcbshop.com

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