Turning a rubidium standard into a proper tool
You can find rubidium frequency standards all over eBay and various surplus dealers. They’re actually quite interesting devices, able to generate a 10 MHz sine wave with enough precision to be a...
View ArticleDIY High Stability Timebase Hack for ~$25. Why? Frequency Stability Matters!
If you have an old “Racal-Dana 199x” frequency counter or similar 10 MHz internally referenced gear with a poor tolerance “standard quartz crystal oscillator” or bit better “temperature compensated...
View ArticleJaw-Dropping Atomic Clock Build
You could cruise the Internet bazaars for a talking clock but you’ll never find one as awesome as this. Just look at it… even if it didn’t work it would be awesome. [Art] certainly lives up to his...
View ArticleA Rubidium Reference for Discrete Component Clocks
Sometimes you open a freshly created Hackaday.io project and discover more than you expect. A moment of idle curiosity turns into a lengthy read involving several projects you wonder how you managed to...
View ArticleRubidium Disciplined Real Time Clock
[Cameron Meredith] starts the Hackaday.io page for one of his projects by quoting a Hackaday write-up: “A timepiece is rather a rite of passage in the world of hardware hacking“. We stand by that...
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