Published: May 22, 2013 by K. E. Claytor
This is a 21 element clock made from Toblerone boxes. Powered by a Raspberry Pi, it has a twitter account that it monitors and then prints the tweets, character by character, on its clock face. It can also run a Game of Life simulation modified for a triangular grid.
You can get the source code off of GitHub.
Here’s a cool video of it in action:
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