Ivan Miranda
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3D PRINTED MARBLE CLOCK PT.1
🕑 Added 2023-10-20 13:40:11 +0000 UTCHi everyone!
I've always wanted to build a marble clock, in fact, I have quite a few design ideas for making one but I chose this one because I thought it was the easiest one (insert facepalm here).
I decided to upload it as a two part video because it was taking forever to make it work and the video was going to be super long so here it is. In this part I assembled and tuned the entire marble run and the marble lift which completes the circuit and the two gates that will allow for a "display buffer" so I can get ready the next minute while the actual minute is being shown.
I'd say that most of the difficulties that I encountered on this part of the build come from me being too strict with the distances between channels (the tighter the channels the better the time will be seen) and me wanting to show the marbles throughout the entire path, hence the marbles getting out of the channel.
I already have the marble selector assembled but I made too many mistakes and I need to basically redo it entirely which will take way less time than trying to make it work as it is. I hope to be able to make it work soon and start thinking about that giant robot Mecha thing that I cannot get out of my head.
As always loving to read your thoughts and comments down below.
Thanks!!!
Comments
Ed Zaharis
Ivan, once again another amazing concept. I applaud you.
