Tom Igoe

Tabletop Clock

aka “What Not To Do” Clock

Ben Light & Tom Igoe, Jan. 2020

This project is a tabletop clock, designed as a production example for our Tangible Interaction class. We made it to demonstrate how to make a housing for an electronic device with tangible controls from a single block of wood. There are a number of mistakes we made along the way, so we’ve been lovingly referring to it as the “what not to do” clock. On the repository for the project, we’ve detailed what not to do.

The What Not To Do Clock, a digital clock with an analog face