Quick Summary
• This mesmerizing rainbow diffraction grating clock puts a little more color in your daily timekeeping.
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Additional Context
Kinetic art is a special kind of mesmerizing, and makers are understandably drawn to clocks. They offer possibilities in animation, explorations in user interaction, and are practical enough to be easy to justify. Having a whole collection of clocks might make justification a little bit harder, but it’s absolutely no reason not to build another.
Moritz Von Sivers clearly has a thing for experimenting with unique mechanisms. You may have seen his original servo word clock, lenticular clock, or another one of many timepieces. Now Sivers has made another winner with his entry in Instructables’ annual Colors of the Rainbow Contest.
This clock overlays blue and red numbers on an LED display and, by harnessing the magical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum, separates hours from the min