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Alarm Clock, a still.

Everyday Things · Built from a recipe

Alarm Clock

D4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 309.9 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A wind-up alarm clock has two metal bells on top and a little hammer between them.

Shelf
Everyday Things
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Hands-on
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 309.9 Hz, 93 cents sharp of D4, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Alarm Clock's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1310 Hz
  2. 2483 Hz
  3. 3501 Hz
  4. 4645 Hz
  5. 5662 Hz
  6. 6713 Hz
  7. 7795 Hz
  8. 8832 Hz
  9. 9863 Hz
  10. 10916 Hz
  11. 11964 Hz
  12. 12972 Hz
  13. 131039 Hz
  14. 141055 Hz
  15. 151114 Hz
  16. 161126 Hz

How to play

Tap it to ring the alarm.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Ring the bellTap
RingButton
ColorColor#d6453d
Time zoneList16 choicesThis device

About it

A wind-up alarm clock has two metal bells on top and a little hammer between them. At the set time a spring inside lets the hammer go, and it strikes the two bells back and forth very fast, loud enough to wake a sleeper. Before alarm clocks were common, some people were paid to go around town tapping on windows to wake others up.

The hands on this clock show the real time where you are, or in another time zone you pick in the Splash tab. Tap it to ring the alarm: the hammer rattles between the bells and the whole clock shakes and hops. Pick its color in the Splash tab. With ✋ Hands-on on, drag around the face to set the time: the minute hand clicks round under your finger and the hour hand follows through the gears, a twelfth as fast.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 670,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

Share it

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.

https://splashery.app/play/?toy=clock<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="clock"></splashery-toy>

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