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Ivan Miranda’s clock is a master class in marble mechanism design

There are a surprising number of marble-based machines out there. Marbles work well in machines because they roll easily, have substantial weight, and are very consistent in diameter. Ivan Miranda was able to take advantage of those characteristics to build this amazing marble clock. This project uses hundreds of marbles to display the time in […]

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Ingenious marble clock runs on Arduino

Arduino boards and custom clock builds seem to be a great match, as illustrated by Görkem Bozkurt’s recent project.  His 3D-printed marble clock uses a stepper-driven gear mechanism to lift 11mm steel spheres to the device’s top chute. The spheres then roll down to a five-minute rail, which empties when filled and transfers a single […]

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