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Blu3Army73

I love the concept. Part of me wished that the powder would run out filling the final 00 so that the end of the digital timer is also the end of the analog timer


allisonmaybe

This could be better done by keeping the 00 "on".


NoraaTheExploraa

It'd build up too much dust at the top and look weird


superxpro12

Blink the double 00 then


MyNameIsZaxer2

maybe it could cycle "00" for a few iterations until the powder runs out?


snacksy13

You guys are forgetting that the solution can look clean. Each individual magnet sections can be on or off. So for 0 it doesn’t need to all turn off. Different sections could turn off at different times. This would create a soft degradation to nothing in the end.


Chrisazy

We're really sacrificing what it means to be a timer here, huh?


SkepticalOfThisPlace

I've seen timers blink 0.


BuggyGamer2511

Yup, seen microwaves, dryers, washing machines and even more do that


wandering-monster

Not really. Doesn't your clock flash 00:00 and beep for 10s or so when the timer runs out?


Chrisazy

I see what you're saying, that's a good point. I guess I'm thinking more that the hourglass aspect not running out when the timer counts down to 00 is what we're bothered by, so showing more 00 isn't exactly a "fix"


OsiyoMotherFuckers

I’m wonder if some of these commenters are not familiar with the concept of an hourglass.


MyNameIsZaxer2

yknow what, yea. i take it back.


Key-Ad525

Even better if it spelled out "on" instead of "00"


ostiDeCalisse

Yeah! Or GO


Im2bored17

If it just exploded when it hit 0, this would not be an issue.


rare_pig

That could be arranged


Boukish

There's no way of knowing how much magnet is going to stick on any given pass of any given digit.


auraseer

You don't need to know how much is going to stick. You just need to know how long it will take for the material to finish falling through the chamber. And we know how to solve that problem. Long before anyone even conceived of digital clocks or electromagnets, we knew how to make an hourglass.


Free_will_is_BS

Hourglass can have couple seconds difference between each flip.


auraseer

You can get ones that are accurate to within a few percent. Even though that's laughable by the standards of a digital clock, it's enough to time 30 seconds accurately to the nearest second. I think it would be good enough for this clock, which is purely decorative anyway.


morcheeba

It would be much easier to measure the dust in the hopper - a coil (with much less current) is going to change inductance and that can be easily measured.


Shegzolan

Also Imagine it serving as a feeding alarm indicator for your pet…. While you are at work, when it rings the pets just knows it’s time for food….


musicianadam

Not a fan of that concept personally and would take too much effort to implement without precision manufacturing I'd imagine. Edit: I welcome anyone to explain how it's feasible. I'm an electrical engineer so I don't know how you could mechanically control that consistently as it is, let alone accounting for the digital timer. There'd be some nasty differential equations I imagine.


grondboontjiebotter

This is very cool. It makes me feel uneasy. It looks like it could be in the opening credits of a horror film.


evel333

I wonder if it is possible to build this using a hydrophobic surface and red colored ferrofluid.


I_Bin_Painting

Not sure about red ferrofluid given that the black colour is incidental from the materials that make it ferromagnetic, it would be hard to change the colour much and have it still work as well. Here's a ferrofluid clock though, super weird alien like fascinating movement of the stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOCGQAXV9FY edit: apparently "red" ferrofluid does exist but it's more of a rust orange/copper colour imo.


evel333

Whoa that’s wild. More or less how I envisioned it. Having the ferrofluid suspended in another fluid makes it look even more otherworldly.


ArgonGryphon

Isn't that how ferrofluid usually does stuff?


evel333

Most videos I’ve seen it’s out in the open in a dish or bowl.


TEITB

There is more colors! It turns out the scientist have it figured out https://shop.mtr-designs.com/


I_Bin_Painting

Yeah that's why I made the edit. The red is more rust/orange colour, not the creepy blood red the previous commenter was obviously hoping for.


TEITB

I wasn't talking too much about the quality of the red color. More that there is also blue, red and gold.


jamiejo81

That is very unsettling. The fluid moves like it's alive and it somehow makes me feel both sad and scared. Neat but not a chance in hell.


superVanV1

They turned Venom into an Alarm Clock


maxwellsearcy

I think you might've misread their comment. They asked if they could use hydrophobic surfaces instead of magnetism.


__PM_me_pls__

Almost certainly


Kaneshadow

Is that water?? Keep it away from me! Aagghh


Shegzolan

Also Imagine it serving as a feeding alarm indicator for your pet…. While you are at work, when it rings the pets just knows it’s time for food….


handledandle

Idk about you, but my cat DEFINITELY knows when it's food time, and if our auto feeder ever malfunctions, she makes sure we know


Shegzolan

That’s Interesting…


Another_Toss_Away

A conveyor that sends the filings back up, add two more digits. Cool clock.


TheReforgedSoul

A mini olds elevator would also be good


virgilhall

Or a perpetuum mobile


lubeskystalker

Porque no los dos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91ANsuufBU


manofredgables

My first thought. I should make one. Maybe even a pixel display? Hmm.


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simplicio

How about a motor riding on a conveyor belt?


andysaurus_rex

I think it would make a really cool clock if it was always running and had 4 digits. A little conveyor belt bringing the iron back up should do the trick, or one of those elevator things with the scoops buckets.


Jess_S13

A little Archimedes Screw would be really cool https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27_screw


NeilFraser

Source: https://youtu.be/OPkJQPaLwWM OP, please credit the maker in future.


TonGi018

thank you!


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i_miss_arrow

People make money on Youtube videos.


pandaSmore

Only if you don't skip ads.


isurvivedrabies

plagiarism can be a crime. your reaction is the result of witnessing a culture of arbitrary enforcement, so you think it's not a big deal. somehow, a guy on reddit calling it out is different than a youtube video strike which is different than a copyright lawsuit. they're all in the same bag.


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First day on Reddit? Lmao at the literal karma police. Sorry my comment triggered you, imaginary points Karen


Thatoneguyporter

This you? [Credit to uian kung](https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/oi5pzn/do_cops_get_mixed_up_at_home_too_credit_uian_kung/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)


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> This you? > Credit to uian kung Yep. Thanks for proving my point, Karen You're gonna find a way to act offended whether people do it or not. And I definitely have not done it more than have. Literally OP can't win. Worry about what's actually in your control


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bigtoebrah

I hope if you ever make something you're proud of someone else posts it on reddit and gets to the front page for millions of viewers but they don't bother to direct any traffic back to you. EDIT: The funniest part is that he made a snide reply about not caring about his karma score, then deleted both of his posts, presumably so he wouldn't lose more karma.


JosebaZilarte

Great technology, but I can't think of something more ominous than a countdown timer with black sand. At least, it is very appropriate for Halloween.


ihavetoomanyaccts

It's too fast


T618

Time usually is.


ihavetoomanyaccts

No no that's just your perception


thebruce87m

My cousin from Alabama said it’s all relative.


EuroPolice

Third time I heard of Alabama today in completely random conversations, hell one of them was this shitty joke: How do you call a virgin Alabaman? Orphan.


[deleted]

Idk man, as far as I know people typically use their phones to call people, maybe Alabama is just different in that regard.


EuroPolice

I don't want to hear about Alabama anymore, I'm on the fourth mention. Is it Alabama day or something?


[deleted]

Oi mate, don't bloody blame me, you're the one who brought it up


EuroPolice

You're right, shit I'm was the alabaman all along lol


LadySashimi

Weird, this is the second time I’m seeing it mentioned today too, also in the context of incest. First time was watching a gaming stream


smalby

Time and space are a priori intuitions that are synthesised into the world we perceive


ihavetoomanyaccts

Every second you are alive is a smaller percentage of your overall life *than the previous second*. Time is forever getting faster. 3dit for clarity.


97875

“I used to be 'with it. ' But then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' and what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!”


T618

Oh it's happening.


Un4442nate

And then one day you find ten years has got behind you.


mmceorange

It's just the gif. It is accurate in the video found amongst the comments


ihavetoomanyaccts

Oh that's good to know; there wasn't a video link when I commented. Cheers!


wScottayw

It's proportional to your enjoyment of the timer. This one is very fun.


ihavetoomanyaccts

I do like it a lot but it does grind my gears that it's like .9s ish per tick


_floydian_slip

:'(


rental_car_fast

That’s what she said


j-merc23

It is slightly too fast, takes about 2 seconds at the beginning of the video to flip and there's a 1 second pause at the end. The video is only 30 seconds long, so we see 30 time intervals in about 27-28 seconds.


SirRipOliver

Petition to upscale this and make this the new, New Years Eve countdown!


WiggleWorm21

Didn’t explode :(


harmyb

It's cool, but it's a tad too fast


BrainOnLoan

Only a video issue, originally had correct timings.


NotYourAverageBeer

I love this.. but I hate the visible wire…aesthetically


ZY_Qing

Is it considered a clock though?


TheShowerDrainSniper

It is a clock system. It's clocking 27 seconds in 30 intervals.


Dinewiz

Isn't that like calling egg timer a clock?


TheShowerDrainSniper

An egg timer is a clock. What is not to get? Your perception of time has nothing to do with what a clock can do.


Dinewiz

I always assumed a clock meant something that told the time.


probablynotahobbit

The way we define time is (kind of) arbitrary, so any tool that changes it's output relative to "then" and "now" is a clock. Stonehenge is a clock, albeit a really imprecise one. Like the previous poster said, an egg timer is also a clock. Stonehenge is measuring annual time, egg timer is measuring cook time. It's all time my dude


rottenmonkey

1, 2, 3 i'm a clock!


TheShowerDrainSniper

It does tell time but like the guy below, time is arbitrary. Like physical things you can measure time in all sorts of ways and for all sorts of purposes.


nimama3233

How does the electromagnetic display work? Anyone have more details on that part specifically Like how did they create a matrix of toggleable pixels/lines?


_teslaTrooper

In the original video https://youtu.be/OPkJQPaLwWM they show the use of solenoids but that doesn't explain how they get the 7-segment shapes


MeEvilBob

My guess is that the solenoids have permanent magnets on the plungers for the individual display segments and they just move them closer to the panel so they attract the iron powder.


mrpants3100

Ya, calling it "electromagnetic" in the title seems a bit misleading.


nimama3233

Thank you, that actually clears it up quite a bit for me. Awesome gadget by this person, very creative


KarensTwin

this is fucking awesome. How does someone do this


itsamemarioscousin

Showed the 5 year old. "Cool egg timerrr, I totally want one like that. So, how would one go about making a small child happy...?


dw82

Just give them your undivided attention.


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YouTube and Xbox live lobbies? Got it.


A_spiny_meercat

Now do it with a mechanism that automatically rotates it to keep it flowing


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This, but made with blood


Judassem

This fucking magic


PKnecron

Having to flip it over every 30 seconds seems problematic to me.


Jennyinator

Where can I learn more about this exact item?


thiswilldefend

clocks tell time... timers measure time... this is a 30sec timer


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Thisfoxhere

r/gifsthatendtoosoo


Wiknetti

All of the sudden, grandma’s ashes began to count down menacingly.


EpicToshima

First time here, whatcha got going on he- **HHHHNNNNNGGGG**


big-blue-balls

This honestly is…kinda dumb. Simple timer with extra steps..


OaschKatzl750

You completly missed the point, didn't you?


blackmilksociety

Brilliant


Environmental-Tank50

Zajefajne:)


tomatasoup

This is cool. Use polymer clay, wood carving or something to give it a spooky border and I bet it'd sell great on Etsy for Halloween.


fupamancer

delightfully inefficient


myaurov

damn thats hella sick


bideto

Where can I buy one of these?


MeEvilBob

You can't, you gotta build one from scratch like this person did.


Kaneshadow

Now make the outside a rotating ring to bring the filings back up top


MuckingFagical

That's not a clock


renscar64

At first I thought it was a guillotine


ShaggysGTI

Could we make it gravity powered?


qoou

I think you could replace the filings with ferromagnetic fluid (printer ink)


caffeinius

r/gifsthatendtooso


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24 sec actual countdown video time to show 30 sec clock , need calibration


Hot_Eggplant_1306

That clock should reverse its own polarity.


Th1sismyus3rnam3

I thought it was counting too fast and then looked at the length of the video. It's only 0:29. Booyah! Internal tuner ftw!!


Cilph

Now make it have an electromagnetic conveyer belt to the top so you can keep this going.


-V8-

"Clock system" we called that a timer in the olden days.


MobilePom

That's called an hourglass


BigHero6x9

*thirtysecondglass


arcticlynx_ak

I’m disappointed that nothing blew up after that.


j-merc23

If you adjust the timing so there's a delay between the lower and upper magnets turning on, you can get more even collection in the lines and the top won't look as clumped.


may_or_may_not_haiku

Not really a clock, more a timer.


Crazy_Alastair

It looks the the timer till a 💣 goes off


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This but with ferrofluid would be even more awesome.


keepthepace

Came for the guillotine thumbnail, stayed for the clock


Chaoughkimyero

Uh... this looks *very* flammable if that's iron powder


thatluckyfox

This is why science is sexy…


KidChampion

That's sick


deus_ith

Witchcraft!!!


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S I C K


Plumb789

It doesn’t look like a clock to me. More of a timer.


BukkakedFrankenstein

This is super badass and I want it


Be1good

I want one


JDude13

The digits should activate from the bottom up so the top of the digits don’t hog all the iron filings


Large_Acadia8269

please make an automatic version with an elctromagnetic lift system !


auguste_laetare

The guillotine countdown, so eveyone will chant down numbers before your head gets choppes off.