[HN Gopher] Art student's 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (2016)
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Art student's 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (2016)
Author : _Microft
Score : 236 points
Date : 2021-09-05 18:51 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| udev wrote:
| Is Woodpunk a thing?
|
| It also reminds me of how some of Leonardo da Vinci's
| contraptions look like when they create them in real life (some
| museums do that).
| nosianu wrote:
| Here is something similar ("useless" complex machine made from
| wood) that somebody made to create music:
|
| "Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000
| marbles)"
|
| https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q
|
| The video shows the details pretty well too, and the piece being
| played is of quite good quality. One can see that the machine can
| just play a pre-configured song, but the operator can add and/or
| change a lot while running it to create variations of that pre-
| configured song. The machine is programmable, so that song could
| be changed.
| thanhhaimai wrote:
| This song is in my audiophile test tracks list. It sounds
| amazing on a well calibrated HT system. The wood "scratching"
| of the machine operation adds so much realism to the track; it
| makes you feel like you're just there in front of the machine.
|
| I'm half waiting for him to redo the track again with his
| latest marble machine. Only half waiting though, since there is
| no "stopping point" for a hobby project :)
| Zababa wrote:
| I'll take this opportunity to post the Death Grips mashup
| https://youtu.be/gSQyPdYz4f4, which the creator of that machine
| really likes!
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| Not exactly useless. Wooden clocks used to be mass produced as
| an affordable option for the middle class.
| AussieWog93 wrote:
| It's "useless" in the sense that you can go to IKEA and buy a
| small, easy-to-read, reliable, accurate clock for $2.
|
| Even though wooden clocks were once useful, this was not
| designed to accurately keep time but more to just be
| beautiful.
| jrimbault wrote:
| Checking the youtube channel, the operator of the machine has
| continued to refine his design, in the last video it barely
| shakes (https://youtu.be/ZddqSR1wXkE?t=3025), if it shakes at
| all. Weird fun dedication to a passion project ^^
| wincy wrote:
| He live streams all of his work too, which is absolutely
| amazing to watch four or five hours of him refining small
| parts of the complex machine he's working on. I watched him
| make small adjustments to a tube the marbles drop into so
| they'd travel at just the right speed to the next point, but
| without binding. Slightly too loose messes everything up, and
| slightly too tight makes the marbles get stuck. He's
| supported by Patreon fans, which is truly amazing that such a
| skilled and niche project can be put together from the
| funding of random people who believe in him.
| [deleted]
| mhb wrote:
| Grandpa Amu is also fantastic: https://youtu.be/sUTiJ9mJ3RQ
| codegladiator wrote:
| Why ?
| plandis wrote:
| Why not?
| codegladiator wrote:
| I mean really why ? i don't know, have i been working too
| long ? i have lost vision.
| rnjesus wrote:
| see: jfk quote about going to the moon.
|
| also, because art.
| exdsq wrote:
| The artist has made several cool and similar things
| https://www.uselesscrown.com/gallery
| smoldesu wrote:
| That must be hell to tour with.
| mythz wrote:
| I envy the free time students have, glad to see he's putting his
| to good use, reminds me all the free time I used to have but
| didn't appreciate at the time and likely will never have again
| until I retire.
| BasDirks wrote:
| Ah yes, if only you had more time. /snark
| Rumudiez wrote:
| I guess you had a pretty easy undergrad experience. I was
| easily working 80 hour weeks throughout college as an art
| major. The tough part of an art project is it's never really
| done, and your work is expected to be flawlessly executed. I'd
| never had as much free-time then as I do now. Taking care of
| the kids is just how you chose to allot your time, no need to
| feel like you missed out on something else because of it.
| [deleted]
| mythz wrote:
| I ended up doing 2 bachelors, even combined it was nowhere
| near 80hrs contact hours, only the lectures were mandatory
| and examinable so I mainly focused on them.
|
| But yeah FT work and kids leaves little left for amazing
| creations like this requiring copious amounts of free time
| which is something that gets more valuable when you have
| little of it, just unfortunate to only appreciate it in
| hindsight.
| da_chicken wrote:
| > Taking care of the kids is just how you chose to allot your
| time
|
| I was with you until this point. When you have kids, your
| time is not entirely your own anymore. You have duties and
| responsibilities to them. The "choice" was made 9 months or
| so before they were born, not in the moment.
| bernardv wrote:
| Now that's a project!
| [deleted]
| voldacar wrote:
| This is super cool, I wish it went more in depth as to how the
| mechanism works. I assume it contains some kind of camshaft
| system for each digit that encodes a fourier series? Really
| beautiful
| GuB-42 wrote:
| It doesn't look like a Fourier series. It couldn't do sharp
| angles if it was (like for the 5 or 7).
|
| Looking at the pictures, it looks like a two axis parallel
| robot where the arms are controlled by a cams with complex
| shapes. The cams can be seen in picture 11/16.
| userbinator wrote:
| Those who enjoy other mechanisms made from wood may also like
| https://woodgears.ca/
|
| The drawing mechanism reminds me of this technique from 1958 for
| generating vector characters entirely with analogue circuitry:
|
| http://www.nixiebunny.com/crtgen/crtgen.html
|
| http://www.glensstuff.com/fouriersynthchargen/fouriersynthch...
| _Microft wrote:
| This is the same technique as is used for these animations in
| which a number of spinning circles or pointers magically draws
| a more or less complicated shape.
|
| You can read about it here as well:
| https://alex.miller.im/posts/fourier-series-spinning-circles...
| bsza wrote:
| AFAIK the first automaton capable of writing was built sometime
| around 1770. It still works.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJX0txJc6M
| yarcob wrote:
| I sometimes forget how amazing things you can build by hand.
|
| Everybody seems to talk about 3D printers, CNC routers, Waterjet
| cutters, pick and place machines...
|
| But a lot of the things can be made just as well by hand. People
| have been making gears for a long time before there were CNC
| routers, all you need is patience.
| _Microft wrote:
| This - or imagine what mechanics and designs could be possible
| if we combined an idea like this clock with modern methods like
| you mentioned them. Each gear could be embellished with
| elaborate designs that would be too time consuming to create
| manually for example.
| xyzzy123 wrote:
| For me the interesting parts of the (kinda hate this term)
| "maker revolution" are share-ability and remixability. The
| community and sharing sites are an integral part of this.
|
| So you can have lots of people who've never met quickly
| iterate on a design. Then yet other people customise or use
| it in unexpected ways.
|
| The end result would be not a clock, but a species of mutant
| clocks spreading across the world.
| GuB-42 wrote:
| Interestingly, the clock is essentially a robot, using cams
| instead of electronics for control.
|
| With the right cams, I am sure it could trace some of its parts
| instead of drawing numbers.
| sdze wrote:
| Imagine this clock at your bedside.
| 01100011 wrote:
| This reminds me of https://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/
|
| They have some cool exhibits(i.e.
| https://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Ho.htm). Not sure what the
| physical museum is like(near San Diego), but the online museum
| has some cool exhibits, even though the site-design looks quite
| retro.
| _Microft wrote:
| The Twitter thread (in japanese, the automated translation works
| quite well though) did not properly embed for me, here is a
| direct link to it. It has a video of the clock doing its work:
|
| https://twitter.com/BellTreeNursing/status/69623269782428057...
|
| On Nitter, for the un-signed-ups among us:
|
| https://nitter.net/BellTreeNursing/status/696232697824280577
|
| Here is a five-minute-long video about it:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu2SPzv7gwY
| axiomdata316 wrote:
| Thanks for the YouTube link. Auto translate to English
| subtitles worked good on interview parts.
| gameswithgo wrote:
| A while back we were arguing here whether a car engine could meet
| modern emissions requirements with an ecu. I believed it was
| probably possible even if extremely difficult and there was
| rather unanimous disagreement. I wonder if anyone seeing this
| would change their mind a bit.
|
| And yes, I do know what a modern car ecu does.
| dtgriscom wrote:
| You aren't clear; are you wondering whether an engine WITHOUT
| an ECU could pass emissions? If that isn't it, what did you
| mean? (Every new car passes modern emissions with an ECU...)
| userbinator wrote:
| I agree it's possible, after all careful tuning of a carburetor
| can produce great gains in fuel economy and/or power; but of
| course most people doing it aren't interested in emissions.
| dharmab wrote:
| I think you could pass emissions, but you would likely have to
| compromise severely on price and performance. There are
| carburetors such as Lectron
| (https://www.lectronfuelsystems.com/) that have some
| capabilities you would normally use an ECU for.
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