By now it may seem like there’s no new method to develop a binary clock. It’s one of the very first jobs many develop to try out their very first soldering irons, so it’s a well-traveled path. Every now as well as then, however, there’s a binary clock that takes a different approach, much like [Stephen]’s latest job which he phone calls the byte clock.

The clock works by dividing the 24-hour day into half as well as utilizing an LED to represent this division, which coincidentally works out to representing AM or PM. The day is split in half over as well as over again, with each division getting its own LED. In order to utilize this technique to get one-second resolution it would requirement 16 LEDs, but since that much resolution isn’t as well important for a general-use clock, [Stephen] reduced this to eight.

Additionally, since we’re in the Web age, the clock has built-in WiFi courtesy of a little version of Python called WiPy which runs on its own microcontroller. A real-time clock rounds out the develop as well as makes sure the clock is as precise as possible. Of program an RTC may not have the accuracy as some other clocks, however for this application it definitely gets the task done.