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Homebuilt atomic clocks

DEC 11, 2007
Physics Today
Wired : About 400 technical hobbyists are taking advantage of a glut of surplus precision timekeeping gear to pursue a serious interest in very precise timekeeping. They call themselves Time Nuts, and they spend their spare cycles collecting, repairing, tweaking -- and occasionally using -- super-precise atomic clocks. Wired magazines has the details on how to build your own atomic clock .
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