yeah, normally mechanical number displays just have the numbers printed on something that moves and move the right one into the window, like digit wheel odometers or the cards on an axle used for old digital “flip” clocks.
@@nixietubes No, it's actually even more interesting. It's a 7 segment display, but a mechanical one. I can tell it is mechanical because if you look carefully, you can see little plastic flaps move. I think the background is a white 8, and then little black flaps cover the parts not meant to be shown at the moment. It's pretty fast and someone who doesn't have an eye for those things probably wouldn't even notice it was mechanical.
Good exquisite and small design, thank you for sharing so many creations, let me see the various beautiful possibilities that the gears can reach in reality.
@@wellesradio the clock is 'digital' format. It would be easier to have 1 counter count up to 24 and reset than it would be to have another seperate counter (lots of wooden machinery) reset every 12 hours to switch am to pm. With 12 hour design you need 2 counters which is lots of machinery. 24 hours is easier to implement. You could also jack on a special switch that switches am to pm everytime the main clock resets but that's still extra machinery to engineer.
This is really neat! The only problem I had was that it took a tiny bit for me to see the segments clearly. I think it's the contest between them. I wonder if you could up the contrast, making it easier to see. Given the style, I'd say lightening the tips on the background wood and outer frame and darkening the segments would work. Though, if you didn't mind something that looked painted, there would be a lot more options, perhaps making the segments bright and colorful while the background gets dark and dull, but still visible.
I've been monkeying with creating something in lego technic, and I came up with having each segment driven by its own axle, and you rotate it 90 degrees clockwise or anitclockwise to turn it on or off... I was coming up with a spool with pins on it to set the segments, but dang,.. i really like the use of cams instead. gonna have to try this!
Yeah, Cams are basically the way to make an elegant encoder/decoder/hard-coded program instruction in the mechanical & electromechanical space, and this is a perfect use case for a camstack-as-decoder.
Amazing and awesome! I would stain or varnish the dark wood segments, to increase the contrast and make the display stand out more. [EDIT] - just saw your follow up video with higher contrast segments and surround - Perfect!
I think it would look better if you just used a wood that had a bit more color instead of actually coloring it ik there are some really red wood out there
the contrast is so low I can barely see the seven segment. and off topic the design kinda reminds me when I used piston feedtapes in Minecraft to design a seven segment in-game
Where I live, a model of Gilbarco petrol pump that was produced in the 1990s is very common. they all have displays like this that go click click click.
imagine hooking these up just right to make a mechanical 7 seg clock. I'd ofc add some sort of glow in the dark paint to the segments to make them easy to see
Very impressive workmanship, as are all the finely detailed wooden mechanisms on your website. If I may ask, how do you keep the wood from expanding and contracting with changes in humidity?
There are seven "segments", each of which are controlled by a different level of the "stack" on the cylinders, which you can see near the end when he turns the object to its side. It's not all that different from the way a music box works from I can tell.
This is so impressive.
7 segment display is such a electrical thing by default so its really fun to see this done mechanically.
I've seen mechanical ones, though. On a gas pump at my gas station.
yeah, normally mechanical number displays just have the numbers printed on something that moves and move the right one into the window, like digit wheel odometers or the cards on an axle used for old digital “flip” clocks.
flip-dot (flip-disk) displays are electro-mechanicle
@@IrisGalaxis nice! Vane displays or the little wheels? Ive never seen a vane gas pump before, they were all phased out so long ago for boring LCDs
@@nixietubes No, it's actually even more interesting. It's a 7 segment display, but a mechanical one. I can tell it is mechanical because if you look carefully, you can see little plastic flaps move. I think the background is a white 8, and then little black flaps cover the parts not meant to be shown at the moment. It's pretty fast and someone who doesn't have an eye for those things probably wouldn't even notice it was mechanical.
Well done. Not just for the fact that you did it. But especially because of the small form factor of the design.
Good exquisite and small design, thank you for sharing so many creations, let me see the various beautiful possibilities that the gears can reach in reality.
I'd love to see four of these, along with an AM/PM indicator, made into a wooden digital clock, made entirely of wood.
I think 24-hour would be way simpler to implement
@@vibce He went ahead and made one. He shows it in another video.
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@@vibce Why would it be easier to make a 24 hour clock rather than one with 12 hours repeating?
@@wellesradio the clock is 'digital' format. It would be easier to have 1 counter count up to 24 and reset than it would be to have another seperate counter (lots of wooden machinery) reset every 12 hours to switch am to pm.
With 12 hour design you need 2 counters which is lots of machinery. 24 hours is easier to implement.
You could also jack on a special switch that switches am to pm everytime the main clock resets but that's still extra machinery to engineer.
Can you make another one like it, and connect them together so that you can count from 0 to 99 ?
yeah if you have gearing
@@lostinmoss4323 i think a 1:10 geneva drive would work best
@HAIL FLOCH The clock is in another video: ruclips.net/video/Tc-hN_nWOrU/видео.html
@HAIL FLOCH I found out he actually made a clock with them. He shows it in another video.
ruclips.net/video/Tc-hN_nWOrU/видео.html
This is really neat! The only problem I had was that it took a tiny bit for me to see the segments clearly. I think it's the contest between them.
I wonder if you could up the contrast, making it easier to see. Given the style, I'd say lightening the tips on the background wood and outer frame and darkening the segments would work.
Though, if you didn't mind something that looked painted, there would be a lot more options, perhaps making the segments bright and colorful while the background gets dark and dull, but still visible.
That's amazing! I did not expect it to be able to loop at first glance.
I've been monkeying with creating something in lego technic, and I came up with having each segment driven by its own axle, and you rotate it 90 degrees clockwise or anitclockwise to turn it on or off... I was coming up with a spool with pins on it to set the segments, but dang,.. i really like the use of cams instead. gonna have to try this!
Yeah, Cams are basically the way to make an elegant encoder/decoder/hard-coded program instruction in the mechanical & electromechanical space, and this is a perfect use case for a camstack-as-decoder.
Amazing and awesome! I would stain or varnish the dark wood segments, to increase the contrast and make the display stand out more.
[EDIT] - just saw your follow up video with higher contrast segments and surround - Perfect!
That's fuckin cool I've always loved watching mechanical things work
just paint the segments and it legit would look pretty damn cool
Great job
I think it would look better if you just used a wood that had a bit more color instead of actually coloring it ik there are some really red wood out there
@@The_MEMEphis oil or wax the “on” segments so they stand out. It’d look so cool, plus the mechanical noise is pretty steampunk imo
ruclips.net/video/Tc-hN_nWOrU/видео.html
I'd love to see this used to actually interact with electronics. It'd also be cool to see how you learn to build something like this.
Impressive how we evolved from these wooden displays to the digital ones
That's awesome! It would be cool as a score counter for board games
I made one too but it uses a piston feed tape and an etho hopper clock!
Hooking these up to a mechanical calculator would be so cool
Great work. As the display is sequential, it would be perfect for a clock. White wood would help with the contrast ☺
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that's very cool. I remember seeing this kind of thing on fuel pumps back in the 2000s.
i think whoever made this genuinely could have made a lot of money back when electrical displays were uncommon
that is simply awsome! I wish I could buy this as a kit.
AWESOME! I bet he does a Rubik's cube in eight seconds flat too. 🤣
I'd love to see some 3D printable version of this!
There has been one for years
@@D3nn1s That's great to hear! Do you have any links I could check out? I don't even know how to look for something like this
Wow! Great work! There are the possibility to share this design? Thanks!
Excellent wood work.
Awesome skill! Now all you need is to make a decoder so that the user can press one button for a number and it is displayed on the screen.
Mechanical encoder/decoders like the ones inside accordions are super neat
Nice work, especially those tiny joints
the contrast is so low I can barely see the seven segment. and off topic the design kinda reminds me when I used piston feedtapes in Minecraft to design a seven segment in-game
If this was the display in a "digital" clock I would buy it
I have never been more impressed
This is so beautiful…
The shape of the mechanism's housing reminds me of 7-segment-displays made in Minecraft
would be nice if the segments had a more vivid color
so freaking cooooool !
That’s insanely cool
this is amazing. totally loving it
Where I live, a model of Gilbarco petrol pump that was produced in the 1990s is very common. they all have displays like this that go click click click.
imagine hooking these up just right to make a mechanical 7 seg clock. I'd ofc add some sort of glow in the dark paint to the segments to make them easy to see
Japanese can make the most complex mechanical components by hands. Bless you!!
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It would (wood) be so cool to have a clock built with these!
ruclips.net/video/Tc-hN_nWOrU/видео.html
That's pretty cool Would be awesome to use it to display the output from a mechanical computer.
you are a complete mad lad, thats all i have to say.
That’s so cool!
Really cool, but you should paint the mechanical parts black and the numbers white for better readability
So beautiful 😮
So cool. Anyone else notice the stomach gargling noise lol
I am so enamoured with this
awesome proof of concept
Nice use of camshafts!
AMAZING!
clever! i'd make the segments stand out more and then its even better
this reminds me of the 7 segment displays i used to build in minecraft
what??!?! how is this even possible? COOL!
Numbers are cool but a mechanical bitmap would be cooler! J/k this is awesome!
This is beyond awesome!
You could paint the segments in glow in the dark paint, I bet it would look cool when it's dim or dark.
That's very very cool
this is awesome woah
i imagine this works a lot like the minecraft seven segment display
so cool... wow brilliant idea!
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I dont quite understand, but this is awesome.
Awesome thanks!
It’s really awesome but a little hard to read if you could colour the segment the numbers would be more readable.
Dude that's cool af
This would be cool to make a mechanical driven clock with.
Amazing. Stl pls.
Really nice work!
О боже. Это сумасшествие. Очень круто!
Now just to coat the face plates in a luminescent material like radium so you can see it in the dark
3d model 3d print would be awesome
wow awesome
Amazing.
That was awesome. I want one.
very cool
Very smart
God damn that's cool
So satisfying
Great job!
This rocks.
incredible
Hi there. Really nice work. Are there any Plans for download?
Nice
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0:22 You can see the interesting cam mechanism from the side before youtubes link-overlays start blocking the view.
That's pretty cool. Would you happen to have drawings of them so i can recreate it in CAD software. Or maybe you even have .STL/Similar files ?
Wow increíble
That's cool
Wow redstone was so popular they added it into real life
Very impressive workmanship, as are all the finely detailed wooden mechanisms on your website. If I may ask, how do you keep the wood from expanding and contracting with changes in humidity?
I apply a penetrating polyurethane resin coating to stabilize the wood.
Beautiful design
Wow insane
That's insane. For the average person like me that looks hard to comprehend
There are seven "segments", each of which are controlled by a different level of the "stack" on the cylinders, which you can see near the end when he turns the object to its side. It's not all that different from the way a music box works from I can tell.
Maybe paint the digits white so you can see them better
Would be insane if you put the turning mechanism on a stepper motor and ran this with an arduino!
Thats so fuckin cool
Do you have any drawings or 3d files you would be willing to share
That is so cool! you wouldn't happen to have an stl file to share or two?
THIS IS SO COOL!!! Please how do you make it?