So how about combining the best of both worlds, by using LEDs to make a Numitron-like display? That’s exactly what [Jay Hamlin] did when he built a digital clock based on LED filaments.

When you think of making something using a lathe, you usually think of turning a screw, a table leg, or a toothpick. [Uri Tuchman] had a different idea. He wanted to make a clock out of the gears … ...

This AI clock is built from a Raspberry Pi and an E Ink screen. It uses ChatGPT to tell the time with tiny rhyming poems and is the creation of Matt Webb.