Alarm Clock Preemptively Broken And Flung Into Wall For Your Convenience
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Favorite Comment: Fixer Wolfen says, “This is not a broken clock. This is a modern impressionistic artistic statement on the oppression of man trying to break away from their bonds of technological enslavement.”
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You Sure That’s Not A Bomb?
That was my first thought.
Whatever wakes you up, right?
We have one minute to diffuse it! Quick which wire do I cut?!
Defusing a bomb is probably a better idea than diffusing it.
Can something be a kludge and a bomb?
Or a kludge hiding a bomb?…
Or a bomb hiding a kludge?…
Never known until forensic guys arrive.
I thought most bombs not made by military forces were kludges… a bag of nails from a hardware store and some boxed garden-care chemicals and cleaning products counts as a kludge in my book.
Hell, in WWII the UK was producing explosives from chestnuts and tanks and fighter aircraft out of park railings- they knew how to kludge back then!
needs some cable-tidying, methinks
If by “cable tidying” you mean “slap some gaffer tape over it”, then yes, but mainly because it looks incomplete without. Otherwise you’re a neatness freak, and True Kludgers are anything but neatness freaks.
I shudder to think what might happen at 12:30
A non broadcasting Explosion, one antenna wire is not connected,
Depends. That looks like an AM antenna. If they’ve got it wired in to the FM antenna terminal, it should do the trick with only one wire. (Remember those crystal radio sets most of us built as kids?)
Oh no, the smaller blue is microwave… BOOM
Unless the whole thing is a countdown!
I have a horrible feeling that’s wired to a trap in the next room, ala Saw.
Teardown of the 1st iPhone…
Wonder what its apps were…
Looks kinda neat, but dangerous. Those old clocks used some pretty high voltages.
I’ll have to voltage probe around in mine then. A friend was throwing his alarm clock like that one away and I snapped it up. I like to repurpose old parts. If the inputs on the board require higher voltage, I’ll skip rehousing and just take a few parts off it and make earrings out of the number flaps. If it’s 9-12v DC, I have a few ideas for it.
Those ‘flapper’ clocks tend to have a synchronous motor driven straight off the line AC, and to keep things simple the buzzer is generally line AC too, with just a switch somewhere to the side of the display ‘drum’.
I looked as closely as I could at the picture, and it appears he has completely rewired the switch (on the upper left side of the clock) that would activate the buzzer to switch the low-voltage side of the radio’s mains transformer (dangling left of the clock).
Given the construction of the remaining items still connected to the mains (the transformer and the clock motor), it’s not even unsafe unless he’s used a paperclip and a nail to plug the lot into a wall socket. Bah.
Sooooo… earrings it’ll be. I could repurpose the old parts, using old Rolodex cards in place of the number flaps. Then I’d let it choose whom to drunk dial!
Wow! Exposed wiring and 110V AC. Great combo!
I hope at 12:30 the little roller starts repainting the room.
this photo was taken in Raplh Naders bedroom
Unsafe at any time.
Is this a clock or some sort of diffusion-proof bomb?
Yeah, the clock guts don’t scare me as bad as the PURPLE WALLS
snooze button is here somewhere
Frankenclock 2000
That is not a kludge. It is electronic wall art and is made from a working clock radio.
The first time I saw one of these was in the 1950′s and it was a tube radio that was stripped out of it case and hung on a hook in a service garage complete with glowing tubes. One had to be careful when tuning to wear rubber sole shoes.
Problem is, without your brother’s Nerf gun you’ll still need to get up to hit the snooze button
…and its powered completely by the color Fuschia!
Holy freakin’ cow! They love that clock *that* much??! let me introduce you to freecycle and get the ‘do-it-yourself electrocution kit’ off the wall… Unless it also serves as a burglar alarm for the window.
Next trip back from the liquor store, you could bring a cardboard box to set that up in.
Looks like to turn the clock radio on and off, all you have tho do is straighten that painting.
… which is by Rene Magritte: “Ceci n’est pas une alarm cloque”.
I made the exact same thing! Same clock!!!!
Wait!!! That comes in a wall mounted model!?!?!?! MUST HAVE!
thanx for all of yer patronage. i feel though i must explain a few things. first the paint. not my choice. was originally my aunt’s room and she likes odd colors. next, it doesn’t hurt THAT bad when i get shocked, just a slight tingle followed by several hours of darkness. nothing serious.
You should build up your resistance.
Be one with the clock… ohm… ohm… ohm…
Resistance is futile. Watt should (s)he do next?
For the homeowner who wants to update the steampunk look . . .
A Clockwork Disarranged
Snooze Interrupted.
Who has glossy magenta paint in their house on an entire wall?
That looks exactly like the clock my son had on his wall for several years. And quite a lot like his computer. We used to say he had achieved the state of being at one with electronic things.
A closer look at the guest rooms at the Tim Burton hotel.
Verrrry nice clock radio… has real Sony guts.
It might not be a clock at all. Looks like a counter for how many theives died at the hands of the homemade theft prevention system. 1,229! YEAH! NEW HIGH SCORE!!!
He should have put it inside the picture frame, then it’d be Art.
No better proof that his interior decorating is so ugly it could stop a clock.
It’s not broken. In fact, that’s the hardest working clock I’ve ever seen. I mean, do you see how desperate it is to escape out that window, or is it just me?
This is not a broken clock. This is a modern impressionistic artistic statement on the oppression of man trying to break away from their bonds of technological enslavement.
Exactly, I don’t know these people think its a bit of smashed up old junk
“Alarm Clock” from the Salvator Dali collection.
I’m half expecting this thing to re-assemble when I throw it at my bedstand in the morning
Transformers! Robots in disguise.
Doesn’t take up any space on the night stand that way.
Worked only 29 min after Y2K event.
I bet that if you remove those pieces, you would see the original pea green paint and see that they painted that purple around the clock without removing it.
I have friends that mount their computers on the wall in similar fashion to be more able to -ah- work on them. Really the goal was to test everything..
Cool. I am always looking for space saving ideas.
Does anybody really know what time it is?
As of the time of this post, it should be 10pm in Chicago.
woohoo! First favorite comment! Thanks!
The green electonics really ties the framed picture and the magenta wall together nicely…in Lebowski-land they would say “it really ties the room together.”
Four words: science project volcano explosion.
this is why you do it in the kitchen, not your room.
Someone finally gets a picture of the infamous atomic clock.
Steampunk – FAIL
Ah yes…modern art, or someone who’s too cheap to get a new one? Our lines are open for your calls
Is it the blue wire, the other blue wire, or the other other blue wire? XD
I see a sad alarm clock that’s been given a second chance.