Clock kits are nothing new – in fact I remember producing a monstrosity of timekeeping while in high-school tech class, complete with "fashionable" bent plastic stand – but they tend to be analogue ...

If you’re a fan of things retro and an electronics do-it-youselfer, this might might be just the thing for you – it’s a kit that lets you built your own clock, that displays the time using wonderfully ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The innermost workings of a mechanical timekeeper can remain a mystery even for hardened horophiles. But, for ...