“Every maker makes a word clock at some point, and I guess this is my turn. I didn’t want to make the same thing as everyone else though, so I put my own spin on it. Why have a static clock that displays fixed, always readable words, when you could make something more visually interesting? I wanted to make a clock that looked like a regular wordsearch puzzle, which appears to “solve itself” in order to display the time. Originally I had the idea that the words could share as many letters as possible, in order to minimise the number of letters on the clock face and hence the number of LEDs required. As the design progressed, I came to the conclusion that sharing letters between words made the clock less readable, and so I settled on a 10 x 10 grid.”
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