@@ekaggrat : A waste indeed but there should be a limit, you could use a single servo to drive the four displays as well, specially if it's an incremental counter only. Even in electronic displays, all multiplexing isn't the ideal solution but it's the cheapest. That said, your system is really clever and your job quite inspiring.
@@raphanunu6912 yes i did have a single motor but setting time gets tedious . so I have 2 motors one for hours and one for minutes. I have seen people making clocks as incremental counters with one motor. But look carefully they are not practical to use as a everyday clock.
Just amazing. Reminds me of the analog "flip" clocks that looked digital when I was a kid. So now I want to see this mounted on a wall, driven completely mechanically with weights and a pendulum like a grandfather clock with all the gears exposed and no electronics lol
@@ekaggrat Each unit would be driven from a different stage of the clock. Hours and min driven from different gears. I don't know how to do the math and figure it out yet but the principle should be the same as a flip clock. Match the cams and the gears together (with math) and the speed is governed by the clock mech. I'd think it would be simple for someone that knows how to do the math (I don't lol) Hum. If the display mechanism is one full rotation to go from 0 to 9 then it should be simple to drive it with a clock mechanism that's turning at 1 revolution a min and gear reduction for each additional digit 😉 Add: if the gearing and everything is correct the the clock mech is what would adjust the timekeeping not the numbers
@@E_y_a_l there's not really a point of doing something like this from an engineering perspective unless it solves a problem in an efficient way, the reason why "most engineers would give up on it" isn't because it's hard, it's because there's no point to it even though it's not a challenge in the first place. When it comes to impractical designs like this, there IS value in the artistry of it, but at that point it's just a question of what design you decide to make. In these scenarios even the simplest of engineering principles goes a long way because they're being used outside of their typical use scenarios, it's still nothing special from an engineering perspective and your claim of "let's see you do it first" only applies in an artistic sense, still unrelated to the comment and my reply which were about ENGINEERING, not artistic capability. Edited because I apparently can't use proper sentence structure after 8pm today 🙃
Nice job, especially for sequential stuff like time or date or sequence counting. Some servo's support 0..9, others 0..5, and for dates it'll be 0..3 for some. The effect is rather mesmerising...
Very useful for outdor where suny conditions might reduce visibility or have a higher energy consumption having a clock with two or three informations alternated: day and month, temperature and the clock.
@@yelectric1893 No, it wouldn't work. What Vertu Joe wants is for the completed digit to stay still for longer. What is needeed is to reduce the arc responsible for the transition between digits so they occupy a smaller angle.
@@kalinunesferreira815 ahh. Well, I suppose. Perhaps a non linear drive speed though to complete arcs at weird rates? Different cams would be a more straightforward way.
I was thinking a pi pico and steppers, it would completely change the design though and essentially each hex segment would just have an on or off, not the constant rotation. I think its cool enough as is, even with its flaws on timing and the time the digits show.
reminds me of the mechanical starter on a washing machine. except theirs are built to fail with plastic holding together critical metal parts. Would be nice if it could be adjusted so that the 'whole' number is displayed longer and the switching between numbers happens faster.
It moves only once in a minute . It stops on the exact digit and stays that way till the minute elapses and then moves on. Mechanically it is hard to dwell on a single digit. That would make the cams much larger.
Ekaggrat, it's all good! I have found all the information I need. 😁 I've done some research and noticed that there Are 4 other Tinkers that have made this project 3years back. Looks like I don't need anything from you after all. But still your project is also very good. kind regards,
@@ekaggrat Well at least now we know that copyright stuff means nothing. I just wanted to know how those 7 disks were shaped the way they are.. now I know. The programming part isn't an issue. tell me, where are you placing the hall sensors and are there any wires involved ??
Love it, however you'd have to design a way for the wheels to swap intermittently to prevent friction wear. Like a sliding system that swaps right to left.
Amazing work! I will definitely build one. Thanks for sharing. I already started to print it and as I see the drum is missing. Could you please add this onto Thingiverse? Thanks.
@@ekaggrat I am simply not able to bend the springs from the 0,2mm wire. The hooks form the 0,4mm are easy but the 3 turns springs are simply not staying in place. How did you do that?
@@kikihobbyrepair there is a variation in the music wire diameters . The one i have is around 0.27 mm . You can see in this video how i did it : ruclips.net/video/I8UE_Bzx4GU/видео.html
@@ekaggrat Thank you for the video. Mine is just a random 0,2 and 0,4mm spring steel wire and they are 10 times more rigid like yours (they really want to jump back to their original position). I have printed myself a jig to make it easier though but it still suc*s...
Well this is good desgn but its not direclt related to arduino. its complete mechanical array memory based counter/displah mechanism. Great design but requires mostlikely metal engrawing a lot so producing it may beckme lots of hassle.
yes i misused the arduino on a attiny84 to make it a lot easier to operate. I have a version which can run of a single motor . but setting time on it is takes very long. I would really like to make this in metal steam punk style at a smaller scale. BUt currently i lack the resources to do it.
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Far better than every single servo-operated display I've ever seen, put together!
yes even i got fed up seeing 7 segment display driven by individual servos. What a waste.
@@ekaggrat : A waste indeed but there should be a limit, you could use a single servo to drive the four displays as well, specially if it's an incremental counter only. Even in electronic displays, all multiplexing isn't the ideal solution but it's the cheapest. That said, your system is really clever and your job quite inspiring.
@@raphanunu6912 yes i did have a single motor but setting time gets tedious . so I have 2 motors one for hours and one for minutes. I have seen people making clocks as incremental counters with one motor. But look carefully they are not practical to use as a everyday clock.
Split flap can do letters also, and they are faster.
@@Alkatross yes but they are boring.
Fantastic design. Really hoping you sell this model for us to print. This is what 3d printing/making is all about
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must have pasted over the second half... I meant "he did put it on github" :(
@@marcg2233 Thanks! Didn't realize that
Just amazing. Reminds me of the analog "flip" clocks that looked digital when I was a kid.
So now I want to see this mounted on a wall, driven completely mechanically with weights and a pendulum like a grandfather clock with all the gears exposed and no electronics lol
yes then try adjusting time on it.. I tried to find a balance between the old and he new. old tech with modern controller to keep it on time 😂
@@ekaggrat Each unit would be driven from a different stage of the clock. Hours and min driven from different gears. I don't know how to do the math and figure it out yet but the principle should be the same as a flip clock. Match the cams and the gears together (with math) and the speed is governed by the clock mech. I'd think it would be simple for someone that knows how to do the math (I don't lol)
Hum. If the display mechanism is one full rotation to go from 0 to 9 then it should be simple to drive it with a clock mechanism that's turning at 1 revolution a min and gear reduction for each additional digit 😉
Add: if the gearing and everything is correct the the clock mech is what would adjust the timekeeping not the numbers
Kudos! It looks like the sort of thing that most engineers would give up on making.
It's not really that hard, just basic cam systems
A good 3d printer
@@platinumsky845 Sure, everything looks easy after someone else has done it, do it first and then talk
@@E_y_a_l there's not really a point of doing something like this from an engineering perspective unless it solves a problem in an efficient way, the reason why "most engineers would give up on it" isn't because it's hard, it's because there's no point to it even though it's not a challenge in the first place.
When it comes to impractical designs like this, there IS value in the artistry of it, but at that point it's just a question of what design you decide to make. In these scenarios even the simplest of engineering principles goes a long way because they're being used outside of their typical use scenarios, it's still nothing special from an engineering perspective and your claim of "let's see you do it first" only applies in an artistic sense, still unrelated to the comment and my reply which were about ENGINEERING, not artistic capability.
Edited because I apparently can't use proper sentence structure after 8pm today 🙃
Brilliantly simple, and somehow seems just a little creepy LOL! Well done.
This is amazing!! As a fan of digital and nixie tube clocks i can‘t wait to buy one of these from you
Just brilliant, I would totally buy this for my work desk.
Exactly
Equal parts artist and engineer. Work of art!
Amazing! What a great idea. I've built some Nixie tube clocks with my son, this would be an excellent next clock project!
sure you can start by building a single module. If you get it right contact me i will send you the rest
Great clock! Now I need the STL files and the rest so I can make one also - Thank you!
Damn, that looks cool as hell! I need one as a clock!
So genius. I wonder how people didn't come up with this in analog 70-s.
This is freaking amazing! Love the ingenuity!
thanks!
This looks awesome 👍
thanks
beautiful design, love all the iterations.
thanks!😀
this is really beautiful. what a brilliant idea.
thanks a lot
Brilliant design! Love it!
thanks
Nice job, especially for sequential stuff like time or date or sequence counting. Some servo's support 0..9, others 0..5, and for dates it'll be 0..3 for some. The effect is rather mesmerising...
Beautiful!
Hey! Thanks so much for this video!
thats awesome man
That's actually amazing
thanks
Very useful for outdor where suny conditions might reduce visibility or have a higher energy consumption having a clock with two or three informations alternated: day and month, temperature and the clock.
What beautiful engineering!
thanks
This is absolutely brilliant
thanks
So cool. Great design.
Thank you! Cheers!
So analog cool!!!
I want one!
so sick, what a clever idea
Beautiful! 👌🏼
thanks
Really cool design!
thanks
Mind blowing design. Can you consider try optimize the profile of the wheel a little to make the completed digits stay longer?
Change the drive speed instead
@@yelectric1893 No, it wouldn't work. What Vertu Joe wants is for the completed digit to stay still for longer. What is needeed is to reduce the arc responsible for the transition between digits so they occupy a smaller angle.
@@kalinunesferreira815 ahh. Well, I suppose. Perhaps a non linear drive speed though to complete arcs at weird rates? Different cams would be a more straightforward way.
I was thinking a pi pico and steppers, it would completely change the design though and essentially each hex segment would just have an on or off, not the constant rotation. I think its cool enough as is, even with its flaws on timing and the time the digits show.
That’s a cool clock design.
thanks!
Genius mechanical design :)
thanks
Great use of cams!
thanks
so freaking awesome!
thanks
Brilliant!
I love it !!!
nice engineering.
Fabulous! In 30 sec insomnia would be gone!
Amazing work! The renders are really cool too
thanks. done with grasshopper3d and vray
Imagine a mechanical one, or one you need to wind up
I would love to have a clock thats like this.
Looks cool
I will just bow to this
Awesome!
Amazing)))
Sick!
YES!!!!
Next, I'll request 【Mechanical 16 segment display】.
Spectacular!
thanks
Very nice !
Thank you! Cheers!
Wonderfully awesome
Thanks a lot
Yeah. Very cool.
Great invention, I've never seen a 7 on a 7 segment display made with 4 segments. There shouldn't be the tail on the left end of the top line.
Very nice design, this may make me buy a 3d printer just for this.
cool thanks.
I can't stop watching this video....lord give me strength to design something 1/1000th as cool as this
it is a big distraction to have it on the desk.
This could be interesting to pair with some sort of mechanical clock motor to make something like an "analog digital clock"
yes i did that before but it became tedious to adjust time so i made it controlled by two stepper motors
My man is re-inventing a flip clock to a new level.
Hope to see you on Techmoan (if that ever would be a product)
someday maybe
Cool!
I was trying to buy this but I see this is like a DIY project that I cannot built. 👍🏿😷👍🏻🇨🇦🇵🇭🇺🇲
This is so cool
thanks!
Nice 👍👍👍
Damn! mad respect! This is pretty cool!
do you have the 3D/STL files for the parts ??
i don't think youtube likes links but, check the description and you can navigate to thingiverse from there
@@adog3129www.printables.com/model/672617-eptaora-clock
Brilliant
WOW, hat off.
Great use of cam lobes! I'm assuming that each 36 degrees of rotation is used an index for 0 - 9, segments are binary and the lobe is smoothed?
yes that's exactly how it works. 7 segments 7 cams
Big like and subscribe! Excellent!
The squeaking sounds added to the animation @0:10 made me laugh.
My brain just melted
Despite our solid state world people people still find joy and fascination in mechanical devices.
mechanical clocks, combustion engines and fountain pens have their own charm and should not go away in front of the modern solid state devices
Where can I buy one of these?
reminds me of the mechanical starter on a washing machine. except theirs are built to fail with plastic holding together critical metal parts.
Would be nice if it could be adjusted so that the 'whole' number is displayed longer and the switching between numbers happens faster.
It moves only once in a minute . It stops on the exact digit and stays that way till the minute elapses and then moves on. Mechanically it is hard to dwell on a single digit. That would make the cams much larger.
Thumbs up twice. Maybe adding seconds will be a cherry on the pie 🥧
Nice
What is seeing the current time like?
Is it swing the arms up to make number simple, or more complicated than a 80's vcr?
it is dead steady . just moves once a minute. so simple to see just like any digital clock
Identical to the program of a self-playing piano, but better and visual explanation. Thank you.
yes kind of
Very impressive. Can you please share the 3d printer files?
Um, I wanna buy one!
Wonderful! Must add an anti-cats shrine ! 😆
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@@ekaggrat A transparent box to prevent the fragile mechanism from being ruined by toddlers and 🐱
now I wanna see W&M Levsha make one out of brass
i wish i had the resources to do that. very expensive to make one in brass
Good
Would love to make this and help contribute. Is it open source?!
for now i have upload one of the modules as it is hard to put together. you can find it on my thingiverse account. feel free to change.
Keren👍🏽
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0:32 bottom segment on the right got stuck for 4, 7, 1 and then fixed itself. Still impressive though.
0:33 idk what number 0y is. That poor 4 and 7..
Beautiful design though, I think the bottom bar got stuck with the purple one.
Ekaggrat, it's all good!
I have found all the information I need. 😁
I've done some research and noticed that there
Are 4 other Tinkers that have made this project
3years back.
Looks like I don't need anything from you after all.
But still your project is also very good.
kind regards,
now don't start trolling them 😜
@@ekaggrat
Well at least now we know that copyright stuff means nothing. I just wanted to know how those 7 disks were shaped the way they are.. now I know.
The programming part isn't an issue.
tell me, where are you placing the hall sensors and are there any wires involved ??
@@g.o.a.t9804 no they are wireless. the micro controller works with magic.. the steppers work with free energy..
@@ekaggrat
C'mon.. enough with the jokes..
help me out a little.
I don't need any codes, just the mechanism
@@g.o.a.t9804 for lazy people here is the link :www.thingiverse.com/thing:5555533
This, but combined with a tourbillon
cool
thanks
Is this available as a 3d printable file? I’d love to make one!
for now only one module on thingiverse : www.thingiverse.com/thing:5555533
Can I get a 12Hr recording of this to use on my LCD alarm clock please?
thanks for the idea. i will upload it to my channel soon
Love it, however you'd have to design a way for the wheels to swap intermittently to prevent friction wear. Like a sliding system that swaps right to left.
Amazing work! I will definitely build one. Thanks for sharing. I already started to print it and as I see the drum is missing. Could you please add this onto Thingiverse? Thanks.
done . please check again
@@ekaggrat Thanks a lot. Already prinitng :) When can we expect the complete project to be published? :)
@@ekaggrat I am simply not able to bend the springs from the 0,2mm wire. The hooks form the 0,4mm are easy but the 3 turns springs are simply not staying in place. How did you do that?
@@kikihobbyrepair there is a variation in the music wire diameters . The one i have is around 0.27 mm . You can see in this video how i did it : ruclips.net/video/I8UE_Bzx4GU/видео.html
@@ekaggrat Thank you for the video. Mine is just a random 0,2 and 0,4mm spring steel wire and they are 10 times more rigid like yours (they really want to jump back to their original position). I have printed myself a jig to make it easier though but it still suc*s...
Take my money!
_Like Mama said; _*_"USE YOUR WORDS!"_*
What is the lubrication order? Every morning? 🙂
never, small so you dont need 🤔
Can you post a link to thingverse?
www.thingiverse.com/thing:5555533
Is this project dead? Any plans to release the entire clock? Paid for would be fine by me =P
Ёпта-ора!👍
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@@ekaggrat all 👌
I’d like to see one of these flip from 23.59 to 00.00!
it is only 12 hours for now.
@@ekaggrat Sorry for the late reply. What about 11.59 to 12.00?
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Well this is good desgn but its not direclt related to arduino. its complete mechanical array memory based counter/displah mechanism.
Great design but requires mostlikely metal engrawing a lot so producing it may beckme lots of hassle.
yes i misused the arduino on a attiny84 to make it a lot easier to operate. I have a version which can run of a single motor . but setting time on it is takes very long. I would really like to make this in metal steam punk style at a smaller scale. BUt currently i lack the resources to do it.