The World's First Digital Sundial

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  • Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
  • In this video I show you how the first digital sundial works. I talk about sundials and how they can change in accuracy and become off by hours over millions of years due to the slowing rotation of the earth.
    Digital Sundial creator: www.mojoptix.com/2015/10/25/m...
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  • @TheActionLab
    @TheActionLab  3 года назад +233

    The 6 hour time delta after 2700 years I mentioned in the video wasn't clear. This is the cumulative time due to all fluctuations over that time period. This time is the delta between TT (terrestial time) and UT ("variable" universal time). So if you set an atomic clock 2700 years ago, when the sun is directly overhead today it would read about 7pm. This has to do with why we have to add leap seconds every few years even though the length of day has not increased by that much. The effect is cumulative. So since 1972 we have added a delta of 31 seconds difference between TAI and UTC.

    • @perihelion7798
      @perihelion7798 3 года назад +9

      Thanks for clarifying this point. I was stunned when you said that, but understood the concepts.

    • @brandonn6099
      @brandonn6099 3 года назад +7

      Due to the fact we're constantly adjusting time to match solar time, sundials will, on average over millions of years, be more accurate than any atomic clock. They are what we calibrate time to. (Albeit *those* "sundials" are telescopes... )

    • @flaps805
      @flaps805 3 года назад +3

      @@brandonn6099 no they wont

    • @saqibmudabbar
      @saqibmudabbar 3 года назад +3

      Hi can you put this"digital" sundial in the next action box. Thanks.

    • @JesusisJesus
      @JesusisJesus 3 года назад +1

      The Action Lab That was quite interesting dude.

  • @Mojoptix
    @Mojoptix 3 года назад +429

    Wouhou !
    Glad you like it ! A lot of caffeine went into designing this sundial...

    • @stuball08
      @stuball08 3 года назад +19

      I’ve printed this as well and had just used it for my daughters school project on time. Thanks for your amazing work!

    • @TheActionLab
      @TheActionLab  3 года назад +41

      It is awesome!

    • @humanbeing1429
      @humanbeing1429 3 года назад +5

      @Mojoptix amazing work. Great results. Love it. I gotta make one of these for myself. Thanks.

    • @Frankie13074
      @Frankie13074 3 года назад +4

      this is big brain

    • @janus2059
      @janus2059 3 года назад +3

      It's so amazing actually....that this fixed, no moving part object can do this.

  • @rouge4963
    @rouge4963 3 года назад +157

    That’s cool to know about the first sundial.

  • @Gigantopathetic
    @Gigantopathetic 3 года назад +43

    learning about clocks has finally paid off.

  • @vegasdevl84
    @vegasdevl84 3 года назад +43

    I do as many of the experiments that you do here as I can with my daughters. They love geeking out. Thanks man!

    • @jorgemarcelo4708
      @jorgemarcelo4708 3 года назад +12

      That is really cool, congratulations on being an awesome father. I'm sure your daughters will remember those moments forever

    • @vasudevraghav2109
      @vasudevraghav2109 3 года назад +8

      Congratulations on being a cool father. Try to keep the bulb glowing.

    • @TechSupportDave
      @TechSupportDave 3 года назад +2

      That's actually amazing. Showing kids science from a young age increases the chances of them being more curious and passionate later in life.
      But include some of the simpler math too! It's important for there to be at least 1% theory.

    • @Cacowninja
      @Cacowninja 3 года назад +1

      Can you post it to RUclips?

    • @Life_42
      @Life_42 2 года назад

      Great to hear you are being the best dad, literally!

  • @IowaHawkeyes59
    @IowaHawkeyes59 3 года назад +7

    This video blew my mind!! The digital sundial was cool, but the information about time was incredible! I love your videos :) I really appreciate all your hard work.

  • @markinipannini
    @markinipannini 3 года назад +177

    "This clock uses army time"
    Or as the rest of the world calls it - *time*

    • @TheFakePlayerGame
      @TheFakePlayerGame 3 года назад +6

      Mark Ahman [The World]!1!1!11!!!1!

    • @lieblingsfarbe4453
      @lieblingsfarbe4453 3 года назад +16

      Thought the same, Army time wtf is he talking about ?

    • @huawafabe
      @huawafabe 3 года назад +31

      It's actually not army time. Army time would be 1640 without the colon. So yeah, it's just standard 24h time

    • @huawafabe
      @huawafabe 3 года назад +6

      @@Nerdycopia yes and without the colon

    • @invisiblefan313
      @invisiblefan313 3 года назад +13

      In the US, 12 hour times are used almost universally, except in the military. The military is commonly refrenced as using a 24 hour time system in pop culture, which is the only time people from the US see 24 hour time, so whenever they see it, they're like "oh hey, that's the time system that the military uses" and not "oh hey, that's time".

  • @MikhailChernoskutov
    @MikhailChernoskutov 3 года назад +18

    The real problem, as I see it, is not about switching pixels, it is about switching pixels instantaneously, such that you don't see garbage half of the time

  • @abracalebdabra
    @abracalebdabra 3 года назад +1

    You always sound excited to explain stuff to us, thanks for the great video mate!

  • @Funkylogic
    @Funkylogic 3 года назад

    That's awesome. The world only gets better when you get an opera house like that to show that analogue and digital mesh so beautifully. Well done sir!

  • @marioeagle93
    @marioeagle93 3 года назад +20

    I guess that with a larger sundial, we could also achieve precision in minutes, maybe seconds. How big would that be?

  • @debashissarkar5638
    @debashissarkar5638 3 года назад +8

    The inventor sure deserves huge respect for this amazing invention 😍 😊

  • @alexkowalski8943
    @alexkowalski8943 2 года назад +1

    Wonderful idea. Respect!

  • @Jordan-fy4id
    @Jordan-fy4id 3 года назад +1

    I remember this used to be a hydrailic press channel. Today this channel is even better than is was before

  • @khalidelrafie6513
    @khalidelrafie6513 3 года назад

    Amazing complicated simple design

  • @folarz
    @folarz 3 года назад +26

    That's awesome, I diffenetly watched a whole video right after it came out

    • @rohitjg
      @rohitjg 3 года назад +1

      Understood within reading at the first time

    • @praneilmukkamala4538
      @praneilmukkamala4538 3 года назад

      What are you trying to say

    • @folarz
      @folarz 3 года назад

      idk

    • @TechSupportDave
      @TechSupportDave 3 года назад

      are you having a stroke? do I need to call the ambulance?

    • @folarz
      @folarz 3 года назад +2

      no need kind sir
      you see, the point of this comment is that i ironically said i watched a whole video (that lasts over 6 minutes) when it got published 12 seconds before i wrote that comment
      noone would ever understand it because the time has already passed
      have a nice day :)

  • @TheRealKitWalker
    @TheRealKitWalker 3 года назад +1

    Ingenious design by that person. Bravo. And to you to dude, another fun experiment. 👍👏👏

  • @raymitchell9736
    @raymitchell9736 3 года назад +2

    Very neat and clever design, I've seen these before and know they've been out for a while, but I really like your explanation and demonstration of how it works... A fun fact: the reason why hands on an analog clock are traditionally painted black are because the hands represent the black shadow cast by the gnomon (yeah... I didn't know what the pointy thing on a sundial was called either... Thank you Wikipedia!!!)

  • @manaqbhanjanbarpanda272
    @manaqbhanjanbarpanda272 2 года назад

    Kudos to the inventor👍👏👏

  • @ecookapp
    @ecookapp 3 года назад +2

    So cool!
    Keep up the good work!

  • @picklejimmy8286
    @picklejimmy8286 3 года назад +1

    That amazing! Love the videos!!

  • @EvilOttoJrProductions
    @EvilOttoJrProductions 3 года назад +1

    It's good you mentioned that it has to be "made out of the right material" because I was worried about that black filament in the sun, and sure enough it started melting at 4:00

  • @josem138
    @josem138 3 года назад +6

    By the way, is anyone else also stunned by the fact the chair's shadow at 3:39 up to 4:05 stays perfectly tangential to the tape? Mindblow

  • @jimmyvines9720
    @jimmyvines9720 3 года назад

    I absolutely love your channel keep it up

  • @soumalyadatta
    @soumalyadatta 3 года назад

    This was brilliant!

  • @jesseshakarji9241
    @jesseshakarji9241 3 года назад +1

    I remember seeing this cad model 3+ years ago. I'm surprised there aren't more videos of this.

  • @ercoledistefano8306
    @ercoledistefano8306 3 года назад

    Seriously impressive engineering.

  • @manojperumarath8217
    @manojperumarath8217 3 года назад +38

    Year 2020: we have flying cars
    Reality: look, we made digital sundial

    • @ehorses2729
      @ehorses2729 3 года назад +2

      Manoj Perumarath we have flying cars, they are called helicopters, it’s just most people can’t afford their own.

    • @SianaGearz
      @SianaGearz 3 года назад

      This project was published 5 years ago.

  • @RonaldDas42
    @RonaldDas42 3 года назад

    Great video, love the 3D printed Sun Dial

  • @cerwe8861
    @cerwe8861 3 года назад +1

    Wow, even the idea is really cool! But how it's done is alo really clever. Awesome!

  • @HaroldTheWizardCat
    @HaroldTheWizardCat 3 года назад

    This is so dope!!

  • @AV8R_Surge
    @AV8R_Surge 3 года назад

    Great stuff

  • @zmrvll4420
    @zmrvll4420 2 года назад

    This is Helpful

  • @hatetoggaf7983
    @hatetoggaf7983 3 года назад

    This channel is great but mad underrated

  • @CyanicCore
    @CyanicCore 3 года назад

    Smart /and/ useful!

  • @mcoletta6736
    @mcoletta6736 3 года назад

    This is so cool. You are my hero AL

  • @kodystclair9774
    @kodystclair9774 3 года назад

    I love how it started to melt in the time lapse

  • @shubhendumishra1421
    @shubhendumishra1421 3 года назад

    Great info 👍😊

  • @HaiTran-ry8pz
    @HaiTran-ry8pz 3 года назад

    Awsome, i rly love this

  •  3 года назад

    I remember reading about digital sundial quite a long time ago in (translation of) an issue of Scientific American magazine, if I remember it correctly somewhere in the '90. Later when trying to learn more about it, I have read that there are at least two ways to make digital sundial (which I think both got patented).

  • @malinournmalinourn5529
    @malinournmalinourn5529 3 года назад +1

    Very cool.

  • @scikick
    @scikick 3 года назад

    Would love to watch a follow-up video on the actual design.
    About how you started, your thought processes, and the compromises you made, everything geeky.

  • @jasonduffy
    @jasonduffy 2 года назад

    Printed mine today as a cool clock for camping.....🌲🌴

  • @ankitminz5872
    @ankitminz5872 3 года назад

    Love it.

  • @plssub
    @plssub 3 года назад +109

    Humans: **create sundial**
    Clouds: Imma end this whole *sundial's* career
    Humans: **create clock**
    *O U T S T A N D I N G M O V E*

    • @Chara_Dreemurr1
      @Chara_Dreemurr1 3 года назад

      I am ur first sub

    • @IvanOoze1990
      @IvanOoze1990 3 года назад +1

      Your life has no value.

    • @Chara_Dreemurr1
      @Chara_Dreemurr1 3 года назад +4

      @@IvanOoze1990 everything is not real it's all just a simulation. Nothing we do matters. We can't get out nothing is real.
      A rihno villager in animal crossing new horizons: 2020

    • @GRBtutorials
      @GRBtutorials 3 года назад

      Well, technically a sundial is a clock too.

  • @user-wr2uy9pj4m
    @user-wr2uy9pj4m 3 года назад +1

    This is really cool

  • @lzylifeguidesubscribe2124
    @lzylifeguidesubscribe2124 3 года назад

    This is SO COOL!!!

  • @veixtube
    @veixtube 3 года назад +2

    I printed the model by mojoptix around 3-4 years ago. Took me like 2 days total. I had it outside for almost a year and it warped pretty bad in the end. It was made out of PLA and also black. It got wet in the rain also. Anyone trying this i suggest something that can tolerate sunlight, winds etc.

  • @alexanderunger534
    @alexanderunger534 3 года назад

    Awesome !

  • @55Ramius
    @55Ramius 3 года назад

    That would be a great thing to put in a experiment box ! : )

  • @matthewsaulsbury3011
    @matthewsaulsbury3011 3 года назад

    Wow! That's amazing and cool! 😁👍🏼

  • @spacegooser9147
    @spacegooser9147 3 года назад

    That’s awesome!

  • @cassnick2709
    @cassnick2709 3 года назад

    Wow this was super cool actually. Very interesting!

  • @DIProgan
    @DIProgan 3 года назад

    I would love to see you try adapting and applying more tech to that sundial so that it always show the correct time, say for at least a hundred years or so.

  • @scroopynoopers2892
    @scroopynoopers2892 3 года назад

    wooow, lookah dat gadegckt! iz tolly amazin, you guys.

  • @thetruthexperiment
    @thetruthexperiment 3 года назад

    It’s self explanatory but amazing. What a cool idea. I want a huge one that is also a giant tower. Call it a clock tower.

  • @firelimbo9441
    @firelimbo9441 3 года назад

    Informative

  • @johnzach2057
    @johnzach2057 3 года назад

    This is one of the best Action Lab episodes. Can we buy this digital sundial from somewhere?

  • @MD_ENTERTAINMENT
    @MD_ENTERTAINMENT 3 года назад

    Brilliant

  • @redhawkrobin
    @redhawkrobin 3 года назад

    I don't know why or how I ended up here. But that is actually pretty cool!

  • @MiguelSantrer
    @MiguelSantrer 3 года назад

    Manual do Mundo, a brazilian channel abut science made this a long time ago too, this video is great.

  • @rajanlamichhane3095
    @rajanlamichhane3095 3 года назад +1

    This is one of the coolest clock I've ever watched😍😍 ( I say it clock)

  • @handanyldzhan9232
    @handanyldzhan9232 9 месяцев назад

    Awesome invention. Finally a portable and accurate, precise sundial that's relatively easy to mass produce. In the future, maybe some other variants might be made:
    - Including one with a solar compass - you couldn't tell the time without the piece taking the latitude into account in its own way anyway, just make it more visible.
    - A UV-sensitive system to not get tricked by artificial light (provided it's daytime and the sky is clear). UV-A can still pass through glass, so if it can pass through to a black surface with UV paint, it could work.

  • @pradyunsharma2903
    @pradyunsharma2903 3 года назад

    That's one of the awesome things I have ever seen

  • @intothecalm420
    @intothecalm420 3 года назад

    That is Awesome!
    Only $23 on Etsy too.

  • @nealsonf
    @nealsonf 3 года назад

    Very cool!!!

  • @RandoniumTJ
    @RandoniumTJ 3 года назад

    Absolute genius 👍 👍 👍....

  • @GuruPrasad-np1qn
    @GuruPrasad-np1qn 3 года назад

    THATS AWESOME BRO.......

  • @MhdAliAlashkar
    @MhdAliAlashkar 7 месяцев назад

    مبدع

  • @saurabhsoni4092
    @saurabhsoni4092 3 года назад

    U r absolutely genius....

  • @miniatureface
    @miniatureface 3 года назад

    Wow this is crazy cool

  • @DaxSage
    @DaxSage 3 года назад

    I was scrolling and I saw the title while the preview played and I was like "why would anyone.." and I saw the time in the shadow change and instantly went to "ooooh that's cool"

  • @gvantsasakaruli9900
    @gvantsasakaruli9900 3 года назад

    I love this thing!!!!

  • @TheFarmacySeedsNetwork
    @TheFarmacySeedsNetwork 3 года назад +1

    That's pretty cool man! Nice job! When you get a chance, I need a mini sun I can hold in my hand capable of the same lumens output here and requires no power input. :)

  • @Nxrvy
    @Nxrvy 3 года назад

    That is sssooooo coool and I’m thinking who thinked about making that

  • @grimmer2005
    @grimmer2005 3 года назад

    Thats INSANELY cool! :-O

  • @christianrindlisbacher7185
    @christianrindlisbacher7185 3 года назад

    Love ❤️ the show ordered a vacuum chamber

  • @MisterTrayser
    @MisterTrayser 3 года назад

    This is the only change that still surprises me I guess!

  • @ideaquest
    @ideaquest 3 года назад

    Great idea. The challenge is to made one that produces the same result with a simplified design.

  • @JoshGDS
    @JoshGDS 3 года назад

    That's a really good survival tool

  • @hoggif
    @hoggif 3 года назад

    What a lovely idea! But a pain to get summer time changes working automatically :)

  • @naveenverma70
    @naveenverma70 3 года назад

    Hi i like ur videos and the explanation you provide are clear and easy to understand. Thank you for your contribution in making physics fun. I would request you to make a video on spaghetti puzzle by Richard Feynman and how it was solved. Thanks in advance.

  • @fuseteam
    @fuseteam 3 года назад +1

    now _this_ is true innovation

    • @fuseteam
      @fuseteam 3 года назад

      @Joby Fluorine nah that was just stupid considering they don't offer at least multiple usb c ports
      if you're gonna remove a legacy port at least offer feature parity lol
      besides this doesn't require any type of energy to run compared to smartphone not even lasting a day under heavy usage compared to months before the smart "innovation"

  • @fortyinch
    @fortyinch 3 года назад

    Now that.... Was cool... 👍

  • @bungkusi2432
    @bungkusi2432 3 года назад

    As a math enthusiast. This is one of the coolest gadgets I ever seen.

  • @Gribbo9999
    @Gribbo9999 3 года назад

    It's cool device especially for telling the time backwards here in the southern hemisphere though I guess with a 3D print it would be easy enough to reverse the print file.

  • @Phiwipuss
    @Phiwipuss 3 года назад +1

    Interesting...

  • @adveshdarvekar7733
    @adveshdarvekar7733 3 года назад +1

    Wow so cool

  • @Povilaz
    @Povilaz 2 года назад

    Interesting.

  • @BryanLeeWilliams
    @BryanLeeWilliams 3 года назад

    Pretty cool

  • @jericon1742
    @jericon1742 3 года назад

    Wow, this is soo coool.. 😮😮

  • @Cacowninja
    @Cacowninja 3 года назад

    So if you cut a bunch of properly placed grooves in something you have a digital sundial?
    I didn't think that was possible but sure enough it was! That's awesome!

  • @thatmcgamer3106
    @thatmcgamer3106 3 года назад

    I remember seeing his video. I thought it as really creative. It’s something that uses a lot of math to see.

  • @nameless6161
    @nameless6161 3 года назад

    How do people come up with these things, frickin awesome

  • @elliottgussow9555
    @elliottgussow9555 3 года назад +1

    The astronomical convention is that the spin of an object is referred to as "rotation," and the path of as object through its orbit is referred to as "revolution."

  • @mrpancakes
    @mrpancakes 3 года назад

    Please mention pixel density in your videos along with the resolution. I like to know the pixel densities in phones.

  • @Name_1387
    @Name_1387 3 года назад

    Oh that is so cool

  • @ksc1406
    @ksc1406 2 года назад

    My great grandfather's watch would like a word with you.

  • @bangaloreshydrohome5863
    @bangaloreshydrohome5863 3 года назад

    Hi Action Lab, i have few questions. Hope u would help me understand..
    1. Since sun is constantly radiating massive energy, the famous Energy equation E=mc^2. Does it mean Sun is losing a small portion of mass? Is sun gradually becoming lighter?
    2. Near the viscinity of blackhole, does the gravity impacts speed of light? What's the impact of massive blackhole on speed of light?

  • @ThePyranthos
    @ThePyranthos 3 года назад

    Could line it with a red or green translucent film to give the time that alarm clock hue.