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Real Alarm Clock

Real Alarm Clock, a still.

An old wind-up alarm clock runs on a spring: winding the key tightens the spring, and as it slowly unwinds it turns the gears and the hands.

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Shelf
Photoreal
Kind
Capture
Sound
Yes
Licenses
CC0, MIT, BSD

How to play

Tap it to ring the bells.

About it

An old wind-up alarm clock runs on a spring: winding the key tightens the spring, and as it slowly unwinds it turns the gears and the hands. Two metal bells sit on top, and when the alarm goes off a little hammer rattles back and forth between them.

Its hands show the real time on this device, in its local time zone, and the red second hand ticks once a second. Tap it and the twin bells ring while the clock rattles across the table. Before alarm clocks were common, some people paid a "knocker-up" to tap on windows with a long pole and wake people for work.

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Alarm Clock 01Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs), recentered and scaled.Yann Kervran, James Ray CockCC0 1.0
old alarm clock ringing (alarm-clock-bell.mp3)tuberatankaCC0 1.0

Libraries

MIT, BSD
WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)

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

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