Real Alarm Clock
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.
The facts
- Shelf
- Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0, MIT, BSD
How to play, in the Playground
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
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Alarm Clock 01Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs), recentered and scaled. | Yann Kervran, James Ray Cock | CC0 1.0 |
| old alarm clock ringing (alarm-clock-bell.mp3) | tuberatanka | CC0 1.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
