I made a 3D printed mechanical digital clock

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• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Really nice! Paint the side edges of the segments a different color and you’ll get a cool appearing color effect.

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  • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s such a great idea. Even better, use white filament for the the 1st layer and use another color filament for all the other layers.

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    • anguo@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Probably at least the first 2 layers, if you dont want to see the next color through it.

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• b000rg@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apparently similarly mechanically powered displays involving cams to actuate number segments were pretty popular back in the day. Here’s a YouTube video I came across one day a while back about one: youtu.be/TANe2d0VTGQ?si=unBJmfzs6A_7PWkM

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  • ryo@lemmy.eco.br ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got irrationally angry that the first digit in the clock could only be 1 or nothing until I saw the actual mechanism and realized that they did that to probably save on material.

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• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The internal gearing is awesome, good stuff op

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is an analog clock in the style of a digital one.

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  • infinitepcg@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is digital because it has digits instead of pointers. It is also digital in the sense that it has discrete states.

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I adore the gear reveal

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• tyler@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks pretty similar to jbv creative’s segmented display.

  youtube.com/shorts/Qp8f7RycBFY

  youtube.com/shorts/_KyDzKArXak

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  • infinitepcg@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep, but I made mine first 😬 I believe we were both inspired by the work of Karakurist.

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    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I like yours better than both, the way your design pushes and pulls the segments is wonderful.

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• Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow good job, love the idea and execution

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• colourlesspony@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow! That is super cool!

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• fubarx@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Outstanding!

  Watching it, my first thought was if it could also be used as s display for a large calculator? Guessing the computation part would require electronics, but then again, there used to be geared tabletop calculators.

  Very nice work.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There were purely mechanical calculators back in the day.

    They were absolutely massive.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They could be made fairly small. The Curta calculator was hand held. Unfortunately, they are very expensive now, but there is a simulator online if you want to play with one.

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  • infinitepcg@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, absolutely. Just needs one motor per digit.

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• CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is it as loud as it seems in the video?

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  • infinitepcg@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The video exagerates it a bit. But it is audible. Of course the clock will only move once a minute.

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    • RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s like, damn near 60 times an hour

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  • uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m curious about this too!

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