Colourful Clocks

Just a fun bunch of experiments using JS, a timer, and some CSS gradient manipulation.

• 11th November, 2024

  • Clocks
  • Time
  • Css
  • Gradients

  HexClock 2.0

  Another clock experiment, this time a direct successor to my original Hexclock from 10+ years ago. I wanted to update it a little, to use multiple gradients and improve the way that they were calculated. As with the TV ident clock I’m not using any libraries, frameworks or stuff like that, with the aim of keeping my JS & CSS skills up to scratch.

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• 5th November, 2024

  • Clocks
  • Time
  • Css
  • Gradients

  TV Ident Clock 1

  This is the first of my re-visits of a project I did a while ago, the ‘Hex clock’ (which was itself a CSS copy of a thing called the colourclock, which I think is now defunct)

  This is inspired by those clocks that used to run before educational programming on BBC2 in the 70s and 80s.

  View in full page - It just runs in the browser, and if you want to install it as an ‘app’ you can use Chrome’s “cast, save & share” tool.

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