Maker Hye-jin Park has turned an off-the-shelf quartz clock motion into one thing uncommon — by placing it answerable for a single “hand” that reveals each minutes and hours concurrently.
“I all the time need to look time in new methods,” Park explains. “I need to create my very own watch design. So that is the watch I’ve newly created. The minute and hour fingers are related by a single line, continually shifting to new angles and lengths as they hint the passage of time. The continually altering hand make it Each time you test the time, you see a recent, new perspective on the hour, making it actually fascinating.”
There is not any microcontroller right here, no Wi-Fi connectivity required, and the clock motion itself is solely off-the-shelf — a battery-powered quartz motion usually present in desk and wall clocks and designed to drive separate hour and minute fingers.
In Park’s clock, although, there’s just one hand — a black line that, by way of a cleverly thought-out linkage, marks out the passing of hours on the clock face’s smaller internal circle whereas extra quickly indicating the minutes on a bigger outer circle.
“The minute hand strikes sooner than the hour hand,” Park explains of the constantly-shifting line that outcomes. “Due to this fact, the hand strikes outward in a big circle, utilizing the hour hand as its reference level. This is the reason the size and angle of the hand continually change.”
The total construct is documented on Instructables.
