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<h1>The Domino Clock</h1>
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Sometime around 1996, when I was working for CompuServe, I saw a lovely demonstration of an
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electromechanical watch that used a sort of domino face to tell the time. I liked it so much that
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when I was looking for a toy project for my first Java Applet, I decided to implement the
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algorithm of the watch.
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25 years later, I found the source code buried somewhere in an old CD. I decided to try an
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re-implement the logic in Javascript, and to experiment with a hand-written
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<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components">Web Component</a>. This is
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the result.
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It might seem a bit silly to have implemented the seconds face when the minutes face has a
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resolution of only five minutes, but it allows you to watch the clock in operation and learn what
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each symbol means: an empty face is 0 (12) and all four pips visible is 11 (or 55
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minutes/seconds).
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<domino-clock></domino-clock>
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The source code, both for this project and for the Java original,
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<a href="https://git.elfsternberg.com/elf/dominoclock"
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>are available at my personal Git repository</a
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at <a href="https://elfsternberg.com">ElfSternberg.com</a>.
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