A Look Inside a Marble-ous Timepiece

Clocks may all look fairly similar if you browse the aisles of a big-box store, but the maker community has proven time and again that telling time can be an art form. We recently covered a very cool 3D clock, a light beam clock, and a watch that tells time with a vintage VU meter, for instance. Now, Ivan Miranda has taken clock design to another level entirely with his very unusual marble clock.

Miranda has been working on this clock for some time, and just got around to updating it. It uses marbles to display digits in a 3×5 matrix. These digits can update about once every other second, which is quite impressive. However, Miranda wanted second-level precision for the clock, so he needed to make some changes. That took a lot of clever hacks, which were just explained in a recent project video.

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