Hahaha It was the first thing that came to mind too! Although I think I should have the option of being able to change direction depending on the season of the year!.
I cannot describe you how I feel ... this came in my dream a few years back .... and I have been working on it...you pioneered it before me...congratulations ! Thank you for the video.
Hi Mojopitx, this is Mr. Cooley and his class. We love our sundials!!!! You made us very happy as we are learning about Mesopotamia and other ancient cultures who used sundials. You are super generous and we are very grateful. Thank you very much!!! You are the best, Mr. Cooley and his students :)
+Tainer Waynes Maybe he confused the English word penguin with the French word pingouin, which means auk (a bird similar to a penguin which lives in the Northern Hemisphere.) The French word for penguin is actually manchot. :)
+Angela Brett as if the drawing wasn't clear enough :)) and the French word for cow is vache. So what are those in Switzerland in this case ?? Let's face it... it's just dumb to say there are penguins at the north pole. :)))))
+Peter Lake Thanks ! I used Manga Studio for all the drawings and then Blender for everything else (green screen, animations, compositing...) ...and a lot of coffee !
@@Mojoptix What if instead of the light passing through the original 1 slit, if you just made it a double slit, like the Quantum Physics Basic explanation on what quantum physics is, applied that to this clock and just made every single slit doubled, in all directions patterns, would it make a sundial that also shows each minute and second as well? Hmmmmm... I wonder if its possible.
@@wizdabloo It is possible for sure, but might require a bigger model. @Mojoptix have created a handy model, that's the reason he have kept the time intervals to display only every 20 mins rather than every mins. Also it will be possible in a CAD software, but the 3D printer to create such a complex model and the type of material used, etc will add more complexity. But the idea to create such a design is genius indeed, all thanks to @Mojoptix.
This is absolutely brilliant (you are a genius)! When I read the headline I first thought about some Arduino inside. Then I began to guess about the tunnels, but did not believe myself because I thought, it requires too many tunnels. Then it was finally the tunnels if we take it in 20 min increments. I am not sure if I will print one, but I am very glad that you are so clever! Thank you so much for this feeling!
That's ace! Thanks for sharing the models and making the video. I've not come across OpenSCAD before either. I'm blown away by how clever and simple this is, you've got me thinking about other projects along similar lines. Thanks again!
I have no words for how brilliant this is! Is this scalable? Have you ever thought of trying to make an installation out of this? Like a big semi-dome - maybe even a piece of patio/yard furniture (almost like a really cool - albeit heavy - umbrella)? I need to get on my CAD and chart this out. (Of course as a remix, citing you as the original inventor) absolutely brilliant! I’m subscribing and planning to binge-watch your other videos ASAP!
Brilliant idea. A large one of these would be an excellent piece of public art. The small one is exceptionally cool, too. Thank you for sharing! I think I'm going to print one today. Merci beaucoup!
This is really fascinating. I have one question though, would it account for seasonal changes? I mean, the angle at which the sun light hits us changes from season to season right? So, I am just wondering that if we calibrated it in summer, would it tell the correct time in winters as well?
I realise I'm (very) late to the party, but I just to have to say what a wonderful project this is. And also to thank you for explaining it so well in your excellent video and finally, to thank you for making the files available at no cost to all. Thanks again.
Idea: Put degree marks on the hinge 3D model with a matching line marking on the sundial arm so that you don't need a protractor while adjusting for latitude. It could also come marked with latitudes for famous cities. If I made one for myself I would just mark it for my own city. What a wonderful project. I have never seen such a mix of software and making a physical thing.
I wish to take nothing away from this awesome display of intellect so I will kindly tell you a little story. When my wife was a child she was on a television program and was asked if she would like to visit a penguin at the North Pole? Her response was, "Ms. Vonnie, penguins don't live at the North Pole." Ms. Vonnie told both my future wife and the audience that she was wrong. Great video, thank you for producing it. Please place this comment in the bin marked "Gushing Praise" with the rest of the comments.
Very wonderful and amazing idea! I've always been fascinated by sundials stuff and I thing I'm going to reproduce your work for myself with my own 3d printer. Thank you to share it with all of us!
Hi there Mojoptix, hope you`re fine,!!! let me tell you amazing job!! standing ovation really!!!! this Sun clock its exceletn, but as much i was searching for the Public opensource file i couldn´t reach it!! Please send me a link to the files!! reagrds!! and keep it on!
Astounding. I kept waiting for the section in the video where the circuit board and liquid crystal screens are installed. A dual format sundial with no moving parts. Amazing. I hope to see better footage of the 'black box' to get a sense of the intricacy of the cavities.
Hello, Would it be possible to make this Sundial in paper, or half-pipe PVC plus a flat plate, below? Would you get me a pdf file to print and cut? =) Congratulations on the beautiful work!
Very cool and amusing. Rocket Surgery, Interweb, maybe a week long, magical black box & Vegemite. Ha ha. Had to rewind a few moments. Love the humour and fun that you have with this! Definitely gives me Mojo! Must be a cynical engineer!
Awesome! im printing on of these for myself right now :) Was curious on if you have tried, or if you have any idea if a larger scale one would work just as well. (or would it need adjusting of the "swiss cheese")
This is awesome, too bad that you didn't really explain the Swiss cheese structure a bit. Maybe you can create a separate video on the exact design of it?
+pablo321123 not really, basically he just explained a single pixel, so everyone gets the idea and that's okay. But how to design the whole Swiss cheese wasn't really covered.
+flow2fly he explained the software and the code used. Do you want him to write it for you? Oh wait, he already did that as well! What more do you want, hint nobody can do the understanding for you.
+pablo321123 for example to show a cut through the Swiss cheese so one could see from the side how the light passes for different angles. I mean for a single whole it's easy to grasp, that's nicely explained. But I am especially interested how he managed to have so many wholes and still block the light of all the wrong times and let only the correct one pass through. That's not as trivial as you want to make me believe.
Hello ! Really a nice invention there ! I love it ! But... I don't want to be impolite, I just want to check some few things with your analogical sun dial : due to the variation of the sun "height" during the year, we would have to change the angle of the sun dial to still have the right time (so +/- 23° to latitude to follow the Sun's travel, due to the obliquity of planet Earth and so on) wouldn't we ? Or is it conceived with this factor in mind ?
My favourite part began at 12"35"" when Monsieur says"a whole bunch of pènis" while carefully adjusting the angle :) .......I'm ordering two units right away! Seriously though, sir; what brilliant insight.
This is genius! I really want to make it. I saw the downloaded files. What is the difference between stl and xxx_NETFABBED.stl files? Which one I should print? Thanks so much for sharing the files
If you scale the sundial 20x without scaling its tunnels, would you have enough "resolution" to display each minute? I assume your 20 minute restriction is limited by how dense your tunnels are.
@Mojoptix What if instead of the light passing through the original 1 slit, if you just made it a double slit, like the Quantum Physics Basic explanation on what quantum physics is, applied that to this clock and just made every single slit doubled, in all directions patterns, would it make a sundial that also shows each minute and second as well? Hmmmmm... I wonder if its possible..
This design could be updated as to show the date too based on latitude of the sun. I can see that in periods in when the time is changing, it could get confusing to read. If the dial was made bigger, I would suspect this would be less of a problem.
Awesome first video... very impressed by both the concept and the elegant algorithmic design of the "magic black box" itself. I don't know a great deal about in 3D printing, but I wonder if it's possible to use a multi-material printer to have the tunnels printed using photo-optic (aka "light pipe") plastic to increase the brightness of the pixels and make the whole structure less delicate? Might increase the printing time a totally impractical amount though...
Did anyone else notice that at 13:40, the time on the sundial is also 13:40 ?
That would make sense, after all it's a kind of clock...
OH WAIT!
If you are that detail oriented, you should work for cia 😂
1337 observation. 💥
This should be produced in huge and put on a public place!
+Jens Leinenbach ☻oh, YEAHhhhhh!! ( :^D
+Jens Leinenbach I thought the same thing! Absolutely great!
Hahaha It was the first thing that came to mind too! Although I think I should have the option of being able to change direction depending on the season of the year!.
It would serve well as a monument for a university.
Then people would it's 12.40 when it's actually 12.59
Wait ... did you just pronounce WWW "woof woof woof"? This is my new favorite channel!!! Rock on Julldozer :))
I cannot describe you how I feel ... this came in my dream a few years back .... and I have been working on it...you pioneered it before me...congratulations ! Thank you for the video.
Pity the blog and the video series weren't continued! So unique and well made!
Please make more videos.. I love this .. The detail and simplicity of your instruction was simply amazing !!
Hi Mojopitx, this is Mr. Cooley and his class. We love our sundials!!!!
You made us very happy as we are learning about Mesopotamia and other ancient cultures who used sundials. You are super generous and we are very grateful.
Thank you very much!!! You are the best, Mr. Cooley and his students :)
Dude.. there are no penguins at the North Pole ;) Nice build, though
+Tainer Waynes Maybe he confused the English word penguin with the French word pingouin, which means auk (a bird similar to a penguin which lives in the Northern Hemisphere.) The French word for penguin is actually manchot. :)
+Angela Brett as if the drawing wasn't clear enough :)) and the French word for cow is vache. So what are those in Switzerland in this case ?? Let's face it... it's just dumb to say there are penguins at the north pole. :)))))
+Tainer Waynes Well, he said that he isn't any rocket surgeon...
+Findecanor That one cracked me up. I'm going to assume it was intentional, though. He's one smart cookie!
+TheGadgetPanda I'm guessing the penguin one was also intentional.
I printed mine with my new Bambu Labs X1 Carbon. The black box only took 4hr 34 min. It came out very nice. Thanks for a nice project!
Says: "Just a few lines", scrolls through thousand lines of code...
This project blew my mind, it is so fantastic!
Pure Genius........totally blown away by this project.
I love your video lab cartoon effect, how did you do that?
+Peter Lake Thanks ! I used Manga Studio for all the drawings and then Blender for everything else (green screen, animations, compositing...)
...and a lot of coffee !
@@Mojoptix What if instead of the light passing through the original 1 slit, if you just made it a double slit, like the Quantum Physics Basic explanation on what quantum physics is, applied that to this clock and just made every single slit doubled, in all directions patterns, would it make a sundial that also shows each minute and second as well? Hmmmmm... I wonder if its possible.
@@wizdabloo It is possible for sure, but might require a bigger model. @Mojoptix have created a handy model, that's the reason he have kept the time intervals to display only every 20 mins rather than every mins. Also it will be possible in a CAD software, but the 3D printer to create such a complex model and the type of material used, etc will add more complexity. But the idea to create such a design is genius indeed, all thanks to @Mojoptix.
thanks for taking the time and for sharing!impressive design!
I have been waiting for your next project for one year man, you got to do it real soon now.
This is absolutely brilliant (you are a genius)! When I read the headline I first thought about some Arduino inside. Then I began to guess about the tunnels, but did not believe myself because I thought, it requires too many tunnels. Then it was finally the tunnels if we take it in 20 min increments. I am not sure if I will print one, but I am very glad that you are so clever! Thank you so much for this feeling!
That's ace! Thanks for sharing the models and making the video. I've not come across OpenSCAD before either. I'm blown away by how clever and simple this is, you've got me thinking about other projects along similar lines. Thanks again!
This is one of the best project videos I have ever seen!!!!!!
Very cool and original. This looks like a perfect New Years project. Thank you for sharing!
If you tell your sundial story then it sounds so obvious. But getting that idea in your head. Love this one!😃
This is freaking awesome.
I have no words for how brilliant this is! Is this scalable? Have you ever thought of trying to make an installation out of this? Like a big semi-dome - maybe even a piece of patio/yard furniture (almost like a really cool - albeit heavy - umbrella)? I need to get on my CAD and chart this out. (Of course as a remix, citing you as the original inventor) absolutely brilliant! I’m subscribing and planning to binge-watch your other videos ASAP!
Absolutely incredible! Looking forward to more such projects =)
My god.. thats some serious thinking outside the box to invent such a wonderful idea!
I got one from my brother today!!!! Can't wait to get it together & out in the sun. Thanks for the video!!!
Awesome thing and great ingenuity. Thanks for sharing. Regards from Czech Rep.
Brilliant! I watched your video years ago and now that I have a 3d printer, I printed my own solar clock and it works great! thanks!
You make the whole design process look easy...Thank you so much for this wonderful video!!
Brilliant idea. A large one of these would be an excellent piece of public art. The small one is exceptionally cool, too. Thank you for sharing! I think I'm going to print one today. Merci beaucoup!
Love it! Great design, product and presentation! And a lot fun too!
Wow!! I love it! I'll definitely build this once I get my 3D printer. Cheers for that! And a big Thankyou for making it open source for us all. :)
Greetings from South Africa. Thank you for the lovely video upload.. ;-)
This is really fascinating.
I have one question though, would it account for seasonal changes? I mean, the angle at which the sun light hits us changes from season to season right? So, I am just wondering that if we calibrated it in summer, would it tell the correct time in winters as well?
Possibly the best use of Vegemite ever conceived! Great video, very well put together - as is the sundial. Thanks. :)
You are amazing. This is inspiring. I imagine 3D printing is the holy grail of heatsink design.
I realise I'm (very) late to the party, but I just to have to say what a wonderful project this is. And also to thank you for explaining it so well in your excellent video and finally, to thank you for making the files available at no cost to all. Thanks again.
make a video explaining the logic behind your script. that is the most interesting thing here
Idea: Put degree marks on the hinge 3D model with a matching line marking on the sundial arm so that you don't need a protractor while adjusting for latitude. It could also come marked with latitudes for famous cities. If I made one for myself I would just mark it for my own city. What a wonderful project. I have never seen such a mix of software and making a physical thing.
So then did you make one for yourself?
Truly amazing! I am showing my kids your videos as I print your Digital Sundial! Thank you!!!
I wish to take nothing away from this awesome display of intellect so I will kindly tell you a little story. When my wife was a child she was on a television program and was asked if she would like to visit a penguin at the North Pole? Her response was, "Ms. Vonnie, penguins don't live at the North Pole." Ms. Vonnie told both my future wife and the audience that she was wrong.
Great video, thank you for producing it. Please place this comment in the bin marked "Gushing Praise" with the rest of the comments.
I love that he used the phrase "rocket surgery"!
Awesome video & lmao "it's really not rocket surgery" at 5:00
So much effort put into this and the video! Good job sir! I wonder how complex it will be for the sun dial to display time by the minute.
Very wonderful and amazing idea! I've always been fascinated by sundials stuff and I thing I'm going to reproduce your work for myself with my own 3d printer. Thank you to share it with all of us!
Thats an astonishing design, simple it ain't, it's a work of mathematical supremacy.
Love your creative 'workshop' back drop too
Hard to surprise me after the Digital Sundial! I'm kidding! This invention is as brilliant!
Hi there Mojoptix, hope you`re fine,!!! let me tell you
amazing job!! standing ovation really!!!! this Sun clock its exceletn,
but as much i was searching for the Public opensource file i couldn´t reach it!!
Please send me a link to the files!!
reagrds!! and keep it on!
This is absolutely genius. You are a very smart man
Amazing creativity and a really well done video! This is a great explanation of the conceptual process. Brilliant!
I'm printing it now. I hope it works. My printer is Ender3 pro and has printed many hings over the last year. hanks!
Astounding. I kept waiting for the section in the video where the circuit board and liquid crystal screens are installed.
A dual format sundial with no moving parts. Amazing.
I hope to see better footage of the 'black box' to get a sense of the intricacy of the cavities.
Absolutely amazing in fact...! Regards from Portugal: João Carvalho. 👏👍🏻💜
Great Video! Very inspiring project.
I'm interested in the music you've put in the background. What song is it? I really liked it.
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Hello,
Would it be possible to make this Sundial in paper, or half-pipe PVC plus a flat plate, below?
Would you get me a pdf file to print and cut? =)
Congratulations on the beautiful work!
Beautiful! What a brilliant invention!
This is ridiculously great :) Will print this soon! Subscribed.
Very imaginative and it is great to see OpenSCAD used for something it was made to do
Honestly this is one of the coolest things on YT just a shame I live in the UK, It would only work for the 3 days a year we see the Sun.
You Sir, have an IQ which is beyond the chart. I salute you.
"OK, Kids, let's build a hovercraft! All you need are two rubber bands, some mayonnaise, and a hovercraft building machine."
Brilliant! Thanks for this design.
Very cool and amusing. Rocket Surgery, Interweb, maybe a week long, magical black box & Vegemite. Ha ha. Had to rewind a few moments. Love the humour and fun that you have with this!
Definitely gives me Mojo! Must be a cynical engineer!
"rocket surgery" loving it :)
I love your "cartoon" style lab what effects did you use for that - seriously cool!
That's a really brilliant idea Thanks for the video.
Extremely cool project. Thanks for doing this!
awesome channel! thanks for your inventions!
Saw this thing in action today for the first time at the Franklin Institute. Mind blown, to the second or 3rd power.
A giant one of these made out of stone in a park would be pretty awesome.
great man, you are awesome, thanks to tell us how to bring your idea into life....
Awesome! im printing on of these for myself right now :) Was curious on if you have tried, or if you have any idea if a larger scale one would work just as well. (or would it need adjusting of the "swiss cheese")
Great demonstration, Thank you !
Seriously???? 😲😲... This is amazing!!!! How would you come up with such idea? I am speechless.. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool! Nice work and thanks for the files!
This is awesome, too bad that you didn't really explain the Swiss cheese structure a bit. Maybe you can create a separate video on the exact design of it?
+flow2fly did you not watch the video? He explained it in depth.
+pablo321123 not really, basically he just explained a single pixel, so everyone gets the idea and that's okay. But how to design the whole Swiss cheese wasn't really covered.
+flow2fly One pixel at a time (subtractive design, despite using an additive manufacturing process!)
+flow2fly he explained the software and the code used. Do you want him to write it for you? Oh wait, he already did that as well! What more do you want, hint nobody can do the understanding for you.
+pablo321123 for example to show a cut through the Swiss cheese so one could see from the side how the light passes for different angles. I mean for a single whole it's easy to grasp, that's nicely explained. But I am especially interested how he managed to have so many wholes and still block the light of all the wrong times and let only the correct one pass through. That's not as trivial as you want to make me believe.
Mind blowing! but... Why a glass jar? Why didn't you design a proper base for this?
Hello ! Really a nice invention there ! I love it !
But... I don't want to be impolite, I just want to check some few things with your analogical sun dial :
due to the variation of the sun "height" during the year, we would have to change the angle of the sun dial to still have the right time (so +/- 23° to latitude to follow the Sun's travel, due to the obliquity of planet Earth and so on) wouldn't we ? Or is it conceived with this factor in mind ?
This is incredible and inspiring! Thank you!
I want to cast this in bronze or aluminum. I may have to scale it up to get the metal to flow to all the parts.
Absolutely awesome !!
Wow. This is very impressive. Well done.
you my friend will become a big youtuber...great video
Awesome Solar Digital Clock!
You're a genius Sir. Respect.
My favourite part began at 12"35"" when Monsieur says"a whole bunch of pènis" while carefully adjusting the angle :) .......I'm ordering two units right away! Seriously though, sir; what brilliant insight.
Recently printed this on my AnkerMake M5 with a .15mm resolution - came out dope, works perfectly!
Great idea!
This is genius! I really want to make it. I saw the downloaded files. What is the difference between stl and xxx_NETFABBED.stl files? Which one I should print? Thanks so much for sharing the files
If you scale the sundial 20x without scaling its tunnels, would you have enough "resolution" to display each minute? I assume your 20 minute restriction is limited by how dense your tunnels are.
brilliant! great work friend!
Pure Genius, well done
@Mojoptix What if instead of the light passing through the original 1 slit, if you just made it a double slit, like the Quantum Physics Basic explanation on what quantum physics is, applied that to this clock and just made every single slit doubled, in all directions patterns, would it make a sundial that also shows each minute and second as well? Hmmmmm... I wonder if its possible..
This design could be updated as to show the date too based on latitude of the sun. I can see that in periods in when the time is changing, it could get confusing to read. If the dial was made bigger, I would suspect this would be less of a problem.
Very fascinating. Bravo!
Came from action lab super cool!!!
Amazing work!!
the 'pigwins' must be on vacation...perhaps the 'crew' from Madagascar movie. great video, thanks, used it for home school project.
So now you need to make a computer controlled light source to simulate the sun's position on cloudy days or night time! ;-)
Brilliant sundial.
brilliant work
Awesome first video... very impressed by both the concept and the elegant algorithmic design of the "magic black box" itself.
I don't know a great deal about in 3D printing, but I wonder if it's possible to use a multi-material printer to have the tunnels printed using photo-optic (aka "light pipe") plastic to increase the brightness of the pixels and make the whole structure less delicate?
Might increase the printing time a totally impractical amount though...
The amaze moment is at 13:20. Love that it's weighted down with nails.