How Wind Nearly Took Down Boulder NTP
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2025/12/29/how-wind-nearly-took-down-boulder-ntp/
"NIST's NTP clock was microseconds from disaster"
MIT physicists improved the stability of optical atomic clocks by reducing “quantum noise” — a fundamental measurement limitation. The work could enable more precise, portable optical atomic clocks that track even tinier intervals of time, up to 100 trillion times per second.
NIST scientists spent 20 years perfecting an atomic clock with 19 decimal places of accuracy - 41% better than the previous record!
Finally, we can measure exactly how late everyone is to meetings with scientific precision. No more "I'm 5 minutes away" excuses! ⏰
NIST: There's a new record holder for the most accurate clock in the world. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have improved their atomic clock based on a trapped aluminum ion. Part of the latest wave of optical atomic clocks, it can perform timekeeping with 19 ...
What Happens If You Press All the Buttons at Perth Observatory?
I visited Perth Observatory during the day (because apparently stars aren’t required for an existential crisis) — and ended up getting a personal tour from Paul Wadham, the actual Operations Manager. Legend.
He showed me antique telescopes, answered my weird space questions with alarming patience, and introduced me to an atomic clock that I may or may not now be emotionally dependent on.
No stars. Just me, Paul, and the unstoppable march of time. ⏱️🔭🌞
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Live Science: Physicists create groundbreaking atomic clock that’s off by less than 1 second every 100 million years…
Scientists have developed one of the most precise atomic clocks ever built, and they plan to use it as a reference clock to define time itself... #atomicclock #time #physics
Scientists have developed one of the most precise atomic clocks ever built, and they plan to use it as a reference clock to define time itself… #atomicclock #time #physics
Atomic Clock trades Receiver for an ESP8266.
Well, you’d still have a clock. But you’d have to set it manually like some kind of Neanderthal. That wasn’t acceptable to [jim11662418], so after he yanked the misbehaving WWVB receiver from his clock, he decided to replace it with an ESP8266 that could connect to the Internet and get the current time via [NTP].
https://github.com/jim11662418/Atomic-Clock-NTP-Modification
#atomicclock #ntp #esp8266 #diy #it #engineer #media #tech #art #maker #news
An ESP8266 Module and an Arduino sketch replace the WWVB radio receiver in an Atomic Clock to synchronize the clock using NTP. - jim11662418/Atomic-Clock-NTP-Modification
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