How I Made This Transparent Hollow Clock - It is 3D Printed!

How to Make a Working Transparent Hollow Clock - It is 3D Printed!
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[@engineericly]

Tell me your ideas to 3D Print 😊

[@DELTA_SKULL]

Try printing a phone case

[@engineericly]

@@DELTA_SKULL Yeah, I need a proper filament for that, please stay tuned, InshaAllah, I will do it:)

[@DELTA_SKULL]

@@engineericly ok by the way love your videos

[@engineericly]

@@DELTA_SKULL Thank you :)

[@88Timur88Bahmudov88]

It would probably look more realistic if the arrows of a clock were triangles with a base of a triangle being in the center and a thin tip of a triangle connecting with the outer gear Great videos, by the way! :)

[@hollt693]

I appreciate you taking the time to make detailed instructions for people looking to build a clock like this! As someone with no real electronics or programming experience, I found myself wondering if I couldn't just power this with the quartz movement from a regular clock, but I don't know if I could get enough torque out of it to do something like this. I don't need more DIY projects to work on right now; I'm already backlogged... But this is so cool.

[@OliverSatomi]

Great idea and great results. You can also print the large cog in clear and add a multicolour Led to make it glow.

[@engineericly]

Thanks for your cool ideas

[@RetroRogersLab]

If you had more of the black ring showing on the inside of the face, you could paint a black pip, the same width, on the end of the minute hand to enhance the illusion.

You should skip the buck converter and connect to the VIN pin it has 5V from the USB port. the way you have it setup now will most likey blow the MCU's 5v to 3.3v regulator beacouse your driving a stepper of it, not to mention its wasting parts and energy beacouse your going from 5V to 3.3v and then back to 5v.

[@mhgscrubadub9917]

some transparent filament and some neopixel backlights would make a nice touch around the edge of the clock

[@ThinkingPear410]

You could get away with that arduino nano if you have used a ds3231 rtc module (or similar), you also don’t need an internet connection this way. Great project

[@ahmedhk1339]

nodemcu does provide 5V there is a pin called vv on the board

[@kedarprabhudessai]

Awesome 😃 but the power supply was bit crude. You can tap 5V from the usb instead of taking and stepping it up the 3.3.v liner regular output.

[@kriatecservices5029]

You can even use 12v for the stepper motor controller

[@isaackailola9221]

YES and if you want to do it a bit beter you can take the 5v from the voltage regulator on the Board, then you still have your usb functional.

[@the555timer]

And the node MCU has a pin called "vin" or "raw" where it breaks out the USB power

[@Zack-xz1ph]

or use a voltage regulator to step down from the 5v, a single chip

[@ARYAandHUSKY]

You are amazing love this video 👍

[@engineericly]

Thank you so much!😊

[@fessit]

Impressive! I love this design!

[@YourCarHub]

Smoke effect in video start is goooodd..lolzzz😂

[@BusyHardyLi]

This will “DEFINITELY” be a future clock!

[@markush.118]

Great idea. Built right away. Is the engine cover also available as an STL?

[@ido1273]

looking for it too

[@firuzjuraev5383]

wow, amazing work, friend!

[@rengarider]

vin pin will provide the 5v directly from usb

[@engineericly]

Hello, No NodeMCU boards do not have 5V pins by default, they provide 3V so you need to step it up or provide other external power supply for the driver

[@rengarider]

@@engineericly to nodemcu your connecting usb ryt, which power your nodemcu. Usb provide 5v to nodemcu which will be given to ams1117 to reduce to 3.3v to power esp8266 12. In some case you need run nodemcu with external 5v supply, so the usb 5v is connected to vin pin (name of the pin differ in different manufacturer), so if you connect USB power and check the voltage between vin and gnd u will get 5v you can use it run any 5v device....

[@DonalD1982]

This is excellency :)

[@engineericly]

thank you!

[@2009carlini]

hello, do you sell the clock finished already?

[@Oferb553]

Very nice build!

[@TBL_stevennelson]

Your make a great teacher thanks for sharing. Also I hate the music especially the volume level. But I don't Care about that I just thought I would add my 2 cents. Thanks

[@id104335409]

I like this a lot!

[@ElhananYakubov]

Impressive ! thanks for sharing. What about STL file for the motor cover ? i couldn't find it amond all the files.

[@nikolaythird1454]

Greare magic!

[@PescoKun]

Another thing I didn't know I needed 😂

[@engineericly]

:)

[@ido1273]

I can't find the file for the small piece you put on the motor at the end =/

[@markrichardson1171]

engineericly ive printed all this and cant get the cogs loose any ideas

[@vvvladimirrrk]

прикольно, сделаю себе такие, вот только с электроникой перебор :) процессор тут явно лишний :)

[@sbcinema]

Cartier did built a watch of this type more than a hundred years ago

[@abdulmustakim3556]

how it can be possible to give 3d printed materials rotational movement over one another despite of the fact that there was no bearing used in this project ?, it may not be working properly thats for sure.

[@abdulahadasqarov_0967]

It's amazing

[@engineericly]

thank you man!

[@robotronicamexico3836]

Que genialidad!!!

[@goodhelper3754]

Ma sha'allah

[@engineericly]

thank you :)

[@jordyv.703]

Is there a way to take the mechanism of a quartz clock and use that for the clock? I don't wanna buy all that stuff just for a clock

[@jean-michelchevalier6649]

Really good, bravo. Could you tell me what sort of bit you use on your Dremmel to grind your pieces? many thanks

[@engineericly]

Thank you for your feedback. Actually it has been long since I bought that! But I think it came with my drill set.

[@jean-michelchevalier6649]

Just wondered what sort of shape the drill bit was

[@hollt693]

@@jean-michelchevalier6649 It looked like just a straight, diamond grit grinding bit. But I don't think it's that important. A round needle file should work just as well.

[@darkness1943]

why should I use in Node MCU, takes too much amps using Arduino nano and every second wake up and give the stepper motor some pulses, then go to sleep again. 18650 cell works over weeks

[@engineericly]

Yes, but Arduino nano has some problems with RTC module, if want to use Arduino nano you have to add external RTC module, then it is fine

[@manfreed]

@@engineericly why use any microcontroller at all?

[@yeswanth9161]

Super from India

[@engineericly]

Thank you!

[@DivinityIsPurity]

Great. Now as challenge, make one with a dial for seconds.

[@markrichardson1171]

Does anyone have the motor cover

[@futuretech687]

Speed clock hand vil b main

[@Mehecanogeesir]

Can we shorten this to THC? :)

[@dirktim9297]

i would have like to see more about the load balancing or what cogs you need to weld. I mean, i know how to remove support material already. cannot really like this. It's not instructional at all.

[@BitSmythe]

0:45. Video starts here. Actually, a bit later.

[@markrichardson1171]

Anyone got the cover its been taken off thingiverse

[@B3N.1]

Ender 3 v2 clone ?

[@familyhistory6678]

Bu yasalgan narsalarizni sotasizmi? Ilojisi bormi sotib olishligimizni? Masalan, aynan shu soat emas, boshqa videolarizdagi narsalarni nazarda tutyabman

[@rafatparween9506]

Assalamualaikum Sir

[@engineericly]

Va alaykum Assalam brother :)

[@Thepeopleof_Islam]

👍👍👍

[@engineericly]

Rahmat

[@cali-zior]

●No vale la pena ahi que tener las plaquetas y todo●

[@RobertA-hq3vz]

A lot of expensive electronics for a crappy clock. Why not just pull a clock mechanism out of a store bought clock and use that to drive the gears.

[@arifbilgen9211]

siüüüüüüüüüü

[@bussi7859]

A clock that is working like a real clock, need a brain?

[@Collateralcoffee]

The accent makes this video unusable.

[@mattw7949]

Cool clock. Really annoying video.

[@AndreyYakimov]

Hello Master! Cool project. I need help. I printed the second Hollow Clock 3 project (for Arduino Nano). But I don't have an Arduino Nano. I used your firmware for Node MCU(8266), with WiFi, for the Hollow Clock 3 project. The Hollow Clock and Hollow Clock 3 project have different motor pitch. Time is gradually lagging behind (in 1 hour minus 8-10 minutes). Please help to correct the firmware code to change the rotation speed of the stepper motor.

[@shizzel122]

Why not use an RTC module?

[@persimonsen8792]

Thats a neat watch. But you should paint it with some glowinthedark-paint. But anyways, i like it.

[@respect_uzbek]

Great. Good job! The best of the best Oka charchamang omad tileman qolgan ishlarizga ham

[@thunderringgamer8692]

Nice try to make longer video.👍

[@engineericly]

Yes, Now, planning to make more long useful videos about interesting projects, thank you for your support!

[@ElectroIsMyReligion]

I’m trying to pinpoint your accent - where you from?

[@azimjondadaboyev007]

I admire my friend

[@engineericly]

thank you:)

[@aliday9968]

You should improve to get time from the internet. Also it easy to make arrows auto calibrated. It is necessary to make electrical contact pads or bulges on each circle. After getting the exact time, find pads by rotating circles and scroll the rings to the current time. I want to see it on your channel:)

[@snowhead8822]

The version for ESP8266 already obtains its time from internet (to see in the video when the log of the firmware start is shown). There is no possibility to recognise the position of the flying hour hand without destroing this special effect of unconnected hand.

[@aliday9968]

@@snowhead8822 you can use magnets or wider zones, or some electric material to find start of each circle

[@snowhead8822]

@@aliday9968 Nope. Take a look at the mount of the hour hand, please. There is no ring for it. It hangs with its gear free on the virtual axle of the minute hand. Only the outer gear wheel of the minute hand can be accessed for position detection.

[@myounges]

@@snowhead8822 interesting but it can sync the time every 12 hours with some sensor(photo sensor, microswitch, etc…) at that position of the cog right? If at that time the sensor is not triggered power the servo until it is. Just thinking out loud.

[@snowhead8822]

@@myounges Like told before it's no problem to obtain the position of the minute hand. But with the unknown position of the hour hand an automatic synchronisation is not possible. The only possibility I can imagine at the moment is a hollow minute hand coated with black color inside. It's tube has one hole through the gear ring and one hole on its back side in the hight of the hour hands tip. Inside the minute hand before the inner hole to the hour hand there is an tilted mirror placed. In the base on the position of the minutes hand at 06:33 hour is placed a laser diode firing through the minute hand over the mirror out of the hole on the back. Close near this diode a phototetector receives the reflected light. Normally the gear ring reflects the most of the light back to the detector. This causes a high signal. Every hour on the 33. minute the minute hand with it's hole let the beam pass and so on all hours except 06:33 hour there is nearly no reflected light causing a signal near zero. At 06:33 hour the hour hand is positioned direct behind the minutes hands hole reflecting a part of the beam back through the hole over the mirror to the detector. Because only a small part of the light reaches the detector the caused signal should be only a bit higher than at all other hours. So the controller knows, that the hands are in the position of 06:33 hour and can now synchronize with the current time. The main chellanges are the making and positioning of the tiny tiny tilted mirror and to place laser diode and detector as close as possible to each other because both must use the same small tube through the minutes hand. I'm not sure if the light reflected by the hour hand can be reliable detected.

[@smarthakerofficial4123]

Сейчас можешь мой ангел

[@BitSmythe]

This video would be MUCH better if instead if incessant “music” you used some DESCRIPTIVE WORDS.

[@engineericly]

Thank you for your feedback, I will consider tis advice!

[@jonbrnardo4466]

#clock SON MA Back

[@MISFITMAKER]

‏‏‎

[@Sirojiddin0307]

👍👍👍👍👍👍🤚🤚🤚🤚

[@engineericly]

Rahmat!

[@smarthakerofficial4123]

Бу́шашма жиян

[@sridharerror]

Honestly this video is awesome

[@engineericly]

Thank you dear!

[@jensschroder8214]

The 5 volts from USB is reduced to 3.3 volts by the linear regulator. Then another step-up to 5 volts. Why? The ESP could receive the clock time via NTP via WLAN. Then he just needs to know where the pointers are.

[@slouchytech8478]

This was an amazing idea💡!!!!! Really love this channel

[@engineericly]

Idea is not mine but, Thank you so much!!

[@kyleeames8229]

I don’t always find stuff that’s worth a rewatch… really cool build. You’re like an English speaking W&M Levsha.

[@thearthound]

Very nice, but I've made this. My comment that you answered from the other video, is that I want to see you make the watch. Easy so scale down but no idea how you would power it.

[@atifali4703]

Good job. Brother I need your help on how to upload codes on Node MCU. I tried but failed to add libraries.

[@mohammadsunboy]

How come in the process of filming the printing process, 3D printing does not come down and move, but the printing is done ?!

[@the_pulsicanx6172]

What of the minute arrow piece was made of a transparent plastic and painted up to right before it touches the circle, to make the floating ilussion even better

[@armel2467]

Very nice, but may I suggest adding a bit of weight to the hour hand gear. It's dragging the hour hand then suddenly catching up

[@250smacks]

What? You crazy man! Using your printer pliers to remove support?

[@InfinityFocus]

Assalamualaikum brother! I didn't realize that this video 10 minutes long 😅.. btw nice design

[@engineericly]

Va alaykum Assalam, thank you brother :)

[@markrichardson1171]

Can anyone plz share the stl guys id love to make this

[@jaarden]

Where can I find de UrsADC libary?

[@ahmedgamalmohamed7823]

First.

[@engineericly]

Congrats brother! 😊

[@langerm55]

THANKS for making and sharing this video. I apologize for the question, but this is my first IOT / ESP8266 project - Everything is printed and assembled. I have the ESP8266 flashed and able to receive an uploaded script but I'm stumped on what's next. What script(s) are required to make the clock function? Is the WTAClient used in combination with the HollowCLock script? If so, what is the process for running the WTAClient?

[@atifali4703]

I have the same issue. If you resolve it then please help me how you did it.

[@suvankardas6988]

battery oparated?

[@Senfonikankara]

great design

[@smarthakerofficial4123]

Сейчас сейчас

[@DLxDaemon]

👍👍

[@kabhath]

What an awesome idea ❤️. Thanks for sharing.

[@thunderringgamer8692]

Please make more projects video 😊

[@engineericly]

Will try InshaAllah, thanks for the comment 🙃

[@alis_cave]

Nice!!

[@engineericly]

Thank you 😊

[@acasualblenderer]

so cool good vid

[@engineericly]

thank you :)

[@Al7lm999]

I enjoyed every minute of this video , 🌷❤

[@engineericly]

Wow, thank you for your feedback, will try to improve more😊

[@itsalright107]

Very well made brotha

[@engineericly]

Thank you so much 😊

[@makewithmegma]

🔥💕😍👌👍

[@engineericly]

Thank you :)

[@александркузнецов-д8к5ю]

Отлично. Очень хороший проект

[@engineericly]

Spasibo brat!

[@olafb.2929]

A very nice project!

[@engineericly]

Thank you :)

[@donaldasayers]

There is a long history of 'mystery' clocks working in a variety of different ways, this is an entirely new take on the idea and you are to be applauded for thinking of it.

[@tomp3440]

bro, no offense but you should work up on pronounciation and language teacher or smth, sounds veri ruski duski, no offense :D

[@tomp3440]

go on english course or something