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A hobbyist mounted a cesium atomic clock on his Raspberry Pi

Ellsworth Toohey
May 01, 2026
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A hobbyist who blogs as Chip Overclock wasn’t satisfied with his GPS-disciplined desk clock. The Raspberry Pi inside it kept time within microseconds of UTC, but only when GPS satellites were available. Lose the signal during bad weather or an antenna glitch, and the Pi’s standard quartz oscillator would start drifting…

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