I was just on the internet watching videos when I stumbled accross a video that was about a guy talking about something called the "ClockClock 24". I looked this up and I kid you not: it is a 24 hour clock made of smaller Analog clocks. When I saw this I was like, "only if you were able to make it display letters...", and then I thought, "I could do that".
And thats how this monstrosity was born.

I was playing fruit ninja with my nephew, and while cutting the fruit and beating my neohew in the game, I was thinking about how the slashing, so I just thought that could work, then I was watching Predator and that part where arnold (spoiler alert) beats the predator and the predator pulls out his bomb and it started counting down; the numbers also helped me come up with this idea