Neat... And no @#$%! way am I going to spend that much time soldering together a clock, even if it was only $5. A not-overly-accurate-clock, at that!

However, as noted in the details, there's a 120VAC-to-9VAC wall transformer involved, so even if you hung on to the bare leads with your hands, you wouldn't likely be getting anything more than an unpleasant tingle/buzz.
Of course, I don't have all the details, and that looks (just eyeballing it) like a fairly hefty capacitor - the *possible* discharge current involved *could* be enough to be severely unpleasant. But not _likely_ to be harmful. Don't take this as any sort of guarantee, however.

On the other hand, you could easily cover the bottom-left corner with a clear plastic shroud of some sort, and touching the rest of the board would likely (again...) be a non-event.

-Adam

On October 17, 2015 4:36:04 PM CDT, Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca> wrote:
Off-topic, but cool:

http://www.transistorclock.com/?imm_mid=0da80b&cmp=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20151017

A guy selling kits to make a all-parts-exposed digital wall clock that
uses *no ICs* and *no crystals*. You build it yourself, 1250 parts to
solder onto a custom board. Too pricey for me, otherwise I'd love to put
one together.

ICYW, I dug around the FAQ and he is cheating a bit: he's using the 60Hz
of the AC as a timer source.

Hmm, since it plus into AC, does that mean touching some parts of the
exposed circuits might give you a nice zap?


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