Making of the Servo Controlled Word Clock

[@dfn808]

I am not sure even Mother Teresa would have had the patience to do that :) Awesome project!

[@electronics.unmessed]

Nice build, but what an effort!

[@foxpup]

I'm glad your project worked out for you. The use of out-of focus imagery is brilliant. very attractive clock :-)

[@BunkerSquirrel]

This reminds me of that style they used to use in commercials for action movies and such in the late 90s early 00s, a la "You wouldn't download a car." Beautiful and nostalgic, I love it!

[@Dithermaster]

Super impressive. At first I thought it used a lens, but now I see it's close to the screen for in-focus and further for not. So clever! Truly a labor of love.

[@ib4expc]

Just. Wow. Beautiful build, and besides the obvious design success, what a testament this is to patience and the power of repetition. Just tinning the almost 700 LED leads alone (not to mention the wires) would have driven most people mad! And capturing it all in time lapse...fantastic. Thank you!

[@howiem]

I wonder if it'd have been worth going for a less dense LED strip and feeding it uncut through slots in each letter box for each row, leaving a few unused LEDs between each box so there'd be enough strip to give you the flexibility you need. Having (say) 4 out of every 5 LEDs not actually being used may be worth it, cost vs time wise; there'd be a negligible extra power draw as they'd still be shifting data even if they never had to illuminate. I suppose it wouldn't have knocked a whole lot of time off the total assembly... and your patience definitely pays off; it's a unique effect. Fantastic.

[@home-dp6oh]

I admit I was shocked when I saw the price of the clock before I watched the video. AFTER seeing how much time and work goes into printing, assembling, and calibrating the clock, plus the raw materials cost, I don't think you're charging enough! Amazing design and execution! I imagine it's pretty noisy? I've used the 9g servos in some RC builds. I hope they are selling well for you.

[@markustube]

Absolutely amazing project! Very creative, masterfully executed, and the results are stunning. Truly inspiring work!

[@alanmeyer8013]

What a fantastic piece of work. I like to look through a lot of Makes Projects and this one is absolutely impressive. A much more professional Make than a lot of the projects.

[@m.dwaynesteckley4832]

Wow, your ingenuity and patience are inspiring. Your build video is mesmerizing. In fact, I like the video so much, I've set it to half-speed with volume off and just let it loop on my tv as background art. Very satisfying to watch.

[@patiaditya]

Brilliant ! Great use of some basic science and a lot of servos. Very inspiring.

[@DIYUSTHAD]

what is this man, you should get 1M subs and 5M views for this video, this is so awesome.

[@yakine13]

exactly what i was going to say!

[@yakine13]

arghhh i've expected more than 1 million views! you deserve it, astonishing work

[@gHOstGuard7]

Oh yeah, this def warrants a subscription! Great work, this thing is amazing! I'm excited to browse through all your other work/videos now that I've found you. Thanks for sharing your inventions with us. :)

[@ChrisBigBad]

Ich bin vom Zuschauen schon erschöpft! Tolle Arbeit :) Danke für das Video.

[@stagodjancic]

Looks great. What kind of foil is that?

[@MrAndrewRoom]

Nice project! Which font did you use?

[@Dormikon01]

Very cool, excellent work! Subscribed. ... und ich denke Mal, ein "Glückwunsch" auf Deutsch kommt auch an. 😁

[@_fernandogarcia_]

Crazy amount of work! Congrats!

[@DIYUSTHAD]

oh now only I saw, so this is your first video. you will surely get 1M.

[@ibotsch549]

great work! is it noisy?

[@arthurpreuss3338]

What a piece of Art!!

[@twistedtinned5579]

Thanks ;-)

[@DaMook82]

Love this, what a work. Need to make some sort of word clock too.

[@Jhohoho-vb2kz]

Wow, great project!

[@peterstrauch3126]

Wau 😱 Great work!!!

[@kjetileik3212]

Love at first sight! What a great idea!

[@stillhere311]

This is awesome! Where can I buy one?

[@jigarsoni]

awesome 👍😊

[@farinazagharabi6356]

C'est vraiment super! Bravo!

[@strangeluck]

Spectacular. 👍

[@crashdown2005]

Build time ? R$D time ? Amazing project.

[@twistedtinned5579]

A friend and me were working on this in our spare time for about two month. There was not a lot of R&D effort we just built a small 2x2 prototype at first.

[@crashdown2005]

@@twistedtinned5579 in any case the result is really fun. do the servos make noise at rest? I had on arduino and he was making noise at rest to maintain the position. what is the overall cost? a cost price ideas?

[@twistedtinned5579]

@@crashdown2005 The servos are very quiet at rest. Actually, the first servo I tested was also quite loud when maintaining the position but I think the noise decreased due to the PCA9685 servo drivers and because we are using the cheaper "Tower Pro" knock-offs. The overall cost was about 350 EUR not taking into account the PLA filament.

[@crashdown2005]

@@twistedtinned5579 all the same a sum. Thank you for the info.

[@averykie]

Very complicated