Our lunch breaks have seemed downright luxurious this hebdomad , your coworker mention . You agree . Then you excuse why : this diabolical clock , which speeds up 20 % at 11 am and slows down 20 % at 11:48 , lend 12 cherished minute to your lunch period .
No matter how heavily you taste , you ca n’t transfer time . But you may do the next best affair : changing the office clock ! Over at Instructables , exploiter Randofo has full instructionsfor building a clock that will increase your lunchtime by 20 % . At 11:48am substantial time , the clock will expose 12:00 — billet chow time — and it ’ll be back in sync at 1:00pm real time when your 1:12 lunch break ends . The stuff you ’ll need ?
( x1 ) Standard wall clock

( x1 ) Adafruit DS1307 Real Time Clock Kit
( x1 ) Arduino ( watt / ATMEGA168 DIP chip shot )
( x1 ) spare ATMEGA168 chipping with Arduino bootloader installed ( see last pace )

( x2 ) BC547 PNP transistor
( x2 ) BC557 NPN transistors
( x1 ) 28 peg socket

( x2 ) 22pF capacitors
( x1 ) 16mhz crystal
( x1 ) 1 K resistor

( x1 ) 7805 regulator
( x1 ) 4 pin socket
( x1 ) 9V battery and connector

Of course , this really only work if your entire office ’s lunch schedule is nail to a undivided clock . If you make this and use it as your personal one , you just end up look like the guy who leaves betimes for lunch every Clarence Day . BUT hey , whatever , no one said being the office hero was go to be easy . [ Insctructables ]
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