Splashery
Real Alarm Clock, a still.
True size13cm tall5.1 in
Photoreal · Capture

Real Alarm Clock

No. 124 of 374, smallest first
A typical one: twin-bell alarm clock, about 13 cm

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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.

Shelf
Photoreal
Kind
Capture
Sound
Yes
Licenses
CC0, MIT, BSD
Real Alarm Clock at its real size

Life size. This real alarm clock is 13 cm tall on your screen too, give or take a tenth on a phone. Hold a real one next to it.

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

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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