Summary
- A maker has combined analogue and digital clock features within a single piece of hardware using 3D printing.
- The front face presents an analogue clock face, whilst the rear shows a digitised representation.
- The analogue clock face is driven by a stepper motor and Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C6 microcontroller.
- The design makes use of multi-material printing for the front face, whilst a conventional printer can also be used.
- However, this will lose some of the surface detail and requires carefully timed filament swaps.
- The MCU is Wi-Fi enabled to pull in the current time, but the process of updating the clock’s mechanism takes some time to complete.
- The maker was inspired by previous builds featured on Hackaday, such as the sliding tile clock.
By Tom Nardi
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