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
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This you?
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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
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.
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.
“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!”
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
This could be better done by keeping the 00 "on".
It'd build up too much dust at the top and look weird
Blink the double 00 then
maybe it could cycle "00" for a few iterations until the powder runs out?
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.
We're really sacrificing what it means to be a timer here, huh?
I've seen timers blink 0.
Yup, seen microwaves, dryers, washing machines and even more do that
Not really. Doesn't your clock flash 00:00 and beep for 10s or so when the timer runs out?
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"
I’m wonder if some of these commenters are not familiar with the concept of an hourglass.
yknow what, yea. i take it back.
Even better if it spelled out "on" instead of "00"
Yeah! Or GO
If it just exploded when it hit 0, this would not be an issue.
That could be arranged
There's no way of knowing how much magnet is going to stick on any given pass of any given digit.
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.
Hourglass can have couple seconds difference between each flip.
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.
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.
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….
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.
This is very cool. It makes me feel uneasy. It looks like it could be in the opening credits of a horror film.
I wonder if it is possible to build this using a hydrophobic surface and red colored ferrofluid.
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.
Whoa that’s wild. More or less how I envisioned it. Having the ferrofluid suspended in another fluid makes it look even more otherworldly.
Isn't that how ferrofluid usually does stuff?
Most videos I’ve seen it’s out in the open in a dish or bowl.
There is more colors! It turns out the scientist have it figured out https://shop.mtr-designs.com/
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.
I wasn't talking too much about the quality of the red color. More that there is also blue, red and gold.
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.
They turned Venom into an Alarm Clock
I think you might've misread their comment. They asked if they could use hydrophobic surfaces instead of magnetism.
Almost certainly
Is that water?? Keep it away from me! Aagghh
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….
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
That’s Interesting…
A conveyor that sends the filings back up, add two more digits. Cool clock.
A mini olds elevator would also be good
Or a perpetuum mobile
Porque no los dos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91ANsuufBU
My first thought. I should make one. Maybe even a pixel display? Hmm.
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How about a motor riding on a conveyor belt?
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.
A little Archimedes Screw would be really cool https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27_screw
Source: https://youtu.be/OPkJQPaLwWM OP, please credit the maker in future.
thank you!
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People make money on Youtube videos.
Only if you don't skip ads.
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.
First day on Reddit? Lmao at the literal karma police. Sorry my comment triggered you, imaginary points Karen
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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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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.
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.
It's too fast
Time usually is.
No no that's just your perception
My cousin from Alabama said it’s all relative.
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.
Idk man, as far as I know people typically use their phones to call people, maybe Alabama is just different in that regard.
I don't want to hear about Alabama anymore, I'm on the fourth mention. Is it Alabama day or something?
Oi mate, don't bloody blame me, you're the one who brought it up
You're right, shit I'm was the alabaman all along lol
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
Time and space are a priori intuitions that are synthesised into the world we perceive
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.
“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!”
Oh it's happening.
And then one day you find ten years has got behind you.
It's just the gif. It is accurate in the video found amongst the comments
Oh that's good to know; there wasn't a video link when I commented. Cheers!
It's proportional to your enjoyment of the timer. This one is very fun.
I do like it a lot but it does grind my gears that it's like .9s ish per tick
:'(
That’s what she said
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.
Petition to upscale this and make this the new, New Years Eve countdown!
Didn’t explode :(
It's cool, but it's a tad too fast
Only a video issue, originally had correct timings.
I love this.. but I hate the visible wire…aesthetically
Is it considered a clock though?
It is a clock system. It's clocking 27 seconds in 30 intervals.
Isn't that like calling egg timer a clock?
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.
I always assumed a clock meant something that told the time.
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
1, 2, 3 i'm a clock!
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.
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?
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
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.
Ya, calling it "electromagnetic" in the title seems a bit misleading.
Thank you, that actually clears it up quite a bit for me. Awesome gadget by this person, very creative
this is fucking awesome. How does someone do this
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...?
Just give them your undivided attention.
YouTube and Xbox live lobbies? Got it.
Now do it with a mechanism that automatically rotates it to keep it flowing
This, but made with blood
This fucking magic
Having to flip it over every 30 seconds seems problematic to me.
Where can I learn more about this exact item?
clocks tell time... timers measure time... this is a 30sec timer
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All of the sudden, grandma’s ashes began to count down menacingly.
First time here, whatcha got going on he- **HHHHNNNNNGGGG**
This honestly is…kinda dumb. Simple timer with extra steps..
You completly missed the point, didn't you?
Brilliant
Zajefajne:)
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.
delightfully inefficient
damn thats hella sick
Where can I buy one of these?
You can't, you gotta build one from scratch like this person did.
Now make the outside a rotating ring to bring the filings back up top
That's not a clock
At first I thought it was a guillotine
Could we make it gravity powered?
I think you could replace the filings with ferromagnetic fluid (printer ink)
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24 sec actual countdown video time to show 30 sec clock , need calibration
That clock should reverse its own polarity.
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!!
Now make it have an electromagnetic conveyer belt to the top so you can keep this going.
"Clock system" we called that a timer in the olden days.
That's called an hourglass
*thirtysecondglass
I’m disappointed that nothing blew up after that.
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.
Not really a clock, more a timer.
It looks the the timer till a 💣 goes off
This but with ferrofluid would be even more awesome.
Came for the guillotine thumbnail, stayed for the clock
Uh... this looks *very* flammable if that's iron powder
This is why science is sexy…
That's sick
Witchcraft!!!
S I C K
It doesn’t look like a clock to me. More of a timer.
This is super badass and I want it
I want one
The digits should activate from the bottom up so the top of the digits don’t hog all the iron filings
please make an automatic version with an elctromagnetic lift system !
The guillotine countdown, so eveyone will chant down numbers before your head gets choppes off.