a 130cm x 130cm (50″ x 50″) clock

Ok – I can finally talk about it.  Last year, I was approached by an architectural firm in Brisbane to make a massive clock for them.  They supplied an amazing concept drawing and asked me if it was possible.

Concept drawing for the Brisbane clock

After a bit of a chat dividing the workload between us and figuring out how we can make it a reality, we decided that they would engage a signwriter to laser cut a sheet of wood for the stencil, and mount baffles behind it and do all of the mechanical work, and I would provide the electronics package to make it light up for them. 

It took a couple of months of designing, but I built a high current driver that can be used for making clocks that are up to 60 inches across, using double strips of illuminating LEDs across each word – nice and bright!

It has been installed, and is beautiful – A wall that is a clock!.  The architect is busy getting commercial photos made which I will share when I get them.  In the meantime, this is the clock itself (Turned off)

A clock built into a wall! - each letter is 7cm tall

Smiles a quite – happy – smile!