Planning
Build
It all started with Paul, a mate of mine who lives in England. He is, or rather was, an Electronics Engineer, before he went bad and got into the IT industry - which is where I met him - we worked together in Germany on some Telco Billing Projects.
Anyway - Paul is a guru when it comes to electronics - and one of his favourite things to do is build electronic clocks. He's build a whole series of clocks that get their time from different places - one you set and it maintains it's own time - just like a regular clock - another takes it's time signals from the beacon at Rugby, in the UK, so it is always updating its own time so it is never wrong - and yet another takes its time from the internet time signals.
This all seemed pretty cool to me, and I have an interest in clocks as well - so I figured it might be fun to build a clock that takes its time from the Radio Time Signal here in Australia, rather than the one at Rugby in the UK. So I began doing a bit of research, but didn't get far - as it turns out, the is no Radio Time Signals in Australia!!
Hmmmmm - what to do???
I came up with (what I thought was) a brilliant and unique idea!! I would build a clock to take its time signals from the GPS Satellite network! What a great idea! I began my research, and bugger me if there aren't already hundreds of these things all over YouTube. Oh well - so what - I decided to still build one - Paul kinda liked the idea as well - so he may or may not add a GPS Clock to his collection soon as well.
