does anyone have Paper Pendulum Clock kit or pattern? I have a kind of kit book but it quality is bad. pls share if you have better. I really want to make this one. thank you!
I'm doing it right now. Just starting tough. One question, if anyone is building it too, do we have to make the markings for the scores on piece a-05 by ourselves? To fit in piece A-01?
Anybody knows about other funtional papercraft. I want to do more. Also here is my progress (at least paper 6, tomorrow im gone print paper 7 and 8, 2 papers for day ) i hope in a month finish Ignore the mistakes, im not from USA
Well, this is my progress, it was so hard, but im going finish, only some details, The piece P1: the piee paper show 5 moldes, when you need 6, make a copy. And in the intrucction, when you fusion the frame B the sighn of O11 and O10 is it grown, but is a mistake of number, nothing anymore. About my frame, i started without gears becase the gears are little bend, the glue deformed the paper, so i make a corrections before the fusion of everything pieces. Sorry for my grammar, im from ecuator.
>>622941 It is probably, in this case im going use stong material. in this picture All the gears stay "in situ". The frames suffer the most damage because i needed change for fit the sticks. The only problem now is separate the gears of other gears. And the anchor. RECOMENDATION. Do not glue L10, at least, not behind of the anchor, this piece is a long separate innecesary of the teeth of escapement
>>622944 What paper are you using, if you think it's too thick for the mechanism would you suggest using thicker cardstock for the frame and lighter cardstock for the mechanisms? I'm very interested in making this but I live in a shit desert that relies on swamp coolers to fill the air with water and even cardstock warps inside.
Hello it's me, the ecuatorian boy. The road to this point was difficult, The frames fuck everything. The space between anchor and escapement (her teeth) not fits, yet. Now i waiting for the dry off the glue. And the munite hand, i recommend change the step 3 (on the step 38), cut one part of the asis ( or stick) and paste this inside the hole of 12teeth gear type b (the little gear front 48 teeth gear). i think so, this is the real impulse of minute hand. If you only put the minute hand on the asis, this roll without control because the gears more heavy behind them move the asis, and the minute hand, like light piece move on with the rhythm of the other gears. Again, sorry for my grammar, i started learn with duolingo
Hello my dear readers. I belive, i am the only who support this thread alive. Well, now i in stanby for the clock, only need rise the asis of ancora, everything else is fine, and the hour and minute hand goes in perfect sequence. Maybe later a take a picture. Here is the gear sphere cube, the first parts. It is like a cupcake cover.
>>622951 Relax dude, im going use format factory (transformation video), now i make the finals corrections and the pieces of gear sphere, wait 3 days or less, i promise
Dear anon glad to see you build the Paper Clock. I have too started it but stopped a few months ago when my dog ruined part of it (my fault I tested the gears after putting the string on the mechanism and left it on the floor) This urges me to go back and finish it!
>>539515 The vast majority of stuff in a clock is just crap to display the time - that is, almost all the gears are there to divide down the amount of rotation. The fundamental accuracy (or lack) of a clock comes down to two or three main things: the escapement (the escape wheel + pallets), the pendulum, and what powers the escapement.
The escapement is the most critical piece; you have losses due to friction, to how the pallets and the wheel interact, recoil, etc. (See the fine wikipedia article for more detail.) With paper, you have less thermal expansion to worry about, but humidity levels can cause even bigger shifts in size.
For more technical details, I recommend the books "The Quest for Longitude" (Andrewes, ed; Harvard) or "Watchmaking" (George Daniels).
It is so many work, maybe before the end of this year i can finish the clock, all the problem is the escapement and the anchora, the teeth do not fit. Another thing, you need 50 grames or more for the weith. And a stick for more resistence About the gear sphere, i hate make all this axis.
>>622961 Hi OP, I made this clock about 6 years ago as a gift for my father. From your pictures I don't think you have made the gears to a fine enough tolerance, are you flooding them with glue too? If a couple of teeth are wonky the mechanism will jam (as I found out) and you will need to use more weight to get it to turn causing the structure to bend.
I have also made the gear heart and this suffers from the same problem you need at most a 1.5mm tolerance on most pieces otherwise it will jam and bend.
>>622931 E6 is a supporting piece, it allows you to mount the eyelet punched piece inside the gear for if you are using a hand eyelet punch. If you are using a vertical punch you can ignore it and make the gear completely.
>>622966 For tolerances I mean that each tooth needs to be as close to the plan as possible, they mesh together very closely. You can flood the teeth with glue if you start to get lazy making the gears and try to rush. Best advice is to glue teeth in pairs at 180 degrees to each other and take it slow. Good luck.
Another anon trying to make this here, if I make the gears and harden them with a thin layer of diluted glue even if they don't warp will it mess up the tolerances?
>>622970 You may need to lightly sand the gear teeth to make sure everything fits smoothly. The only two pieces that really matter in term of tolerances and fit are the anchor and escape wheel.
Yet another anon here. Thanks for this one guys. I just printed layout on flourescent orange/green alternating pieces. Hopefully i can finish this and show it off here sometime soon.
Just doing this right now, and I’m wondering - in the diagram for the 20 tooth gear, it appears that the gear front and back go through the outline of the teeth. Do I need to cut a flap for that, or do I just assemble it like the other gears?
Ihr habt den Weg vom Wurme zum Menschen gemacht, und Vieles ist in euch noch Wurm. Einst wart ihr Affen, und auch jetzt ist der Mensch mehr Affe, als irgend ein Affe.
here's my test build. not using eyelets for this, also did some changes to templates to simplify the work. not working steadily yet, only for a couple of minutes. will introduce a few more tweaks soon
>>623009 I've changed several curved lines in templates to straight lines, where it doesn't influence the function. It's easier to cut and glue straight lines, obviously. Also, look at the teeth of the gears. They have new flaps design, so the flaps are bigger and easier to glue. This cuts time on glueing gears significantly
>>623011 yes, this was necessary to allow larger flaps. the original flaps design was a PITA to cut and glue. Larger tabs can be glued to the front, much faster and easier. To have a clean look you just need a second layer of them on the front side (didn't do it here, as this was an experimental build).
wtf, why the fuck is /po/ so god damn fast! in only a single week this shit thread reached the 7th page, instead of the usual 60 days, holy mother of shiet!!!
Has anyone made one of the cardboard clocks before? This is my third time buying it because I messed up the first two. How do you keep the cardboard layers from warping? Should I not use white glue?
>>623017 I tried the Wrebbit kit like 25 years ago; if it's still the same, the way I did it was to glue everything in the gear together *except* the hub in the middle, and then put the almost-complete gear under a couple of books to keep everything nice while drying. The frames are less critical to keep straight; really, it's the escapement that's the thing that's the most critical to get right.
>>623018 its worth a try. I bought this 3 years ago and havent built it yet but the box is the same as the one I got in 1999 so it hasnt changed. I just want to make a neat clock without the gears warping to hell
>>622958 >It's like all of my fucking phobias and fears go not just to generational loss of pirated media, but all the way down to the accuracy of a second and the speed of light. Anon, my life was going great. You have put me in a solipsistic tail spin that will be haunting me for the next 30 to 70 years. What you have told me, is that I can't even trust the fundamental mechanics of time keeping.
>>623022 Aw, no need for solipsism. Instead, consider that the fundamental basis of something might be subtle and easily overlooked in favor of its more flashy parts. (And that it took 150 years from the first scientific examination of pendulums to develop a stable clock to become useful for navigation.) What's really important is sometimes not obvious at all, and can be a long time in coming.
>>591864 I am the one who ask for the kit at the beginning, such a long time since i ask for it. i didnt make it though, life busy and hard for me. But seem you guys really making progress, great to see that, lets keep this for another 5 years :D
>>594869 Nah not really. Only problem is that content stops flowing on the threads so it kinda dies but doesn't die in the system. Just make new threads.
hey everyone i really hate adding to the post count on such a historic thread but i edited the pdf to be printed on standard letter sized paper without having to scale the source (because it was sized for a4 paper which is very uncommon in north america) have fun i plan to start this project soon. i'll make a new thread with my progress some day.
>>622995 And it's been three more years again, including two of the most agonizing and isolating ones ever, even for us. I was in high school when you started this thread. I didn't even know about the infamous hacker then. You're thread is a nostalgia trip by itself. I hope you're still working on your pendulum clock, /po/anon. I check in once in a while just to see how you're doing.
Is this thread genuinely just being kept alive by a janny that deletes posts at random? I mean holy shit, they deleted some on-topic posts, but kept up a few off-topic ones seemingly at random. Like this guy replying to a deleted post >>603157 somehow survived a number of purges. At least answer me first before deleting, I'll read the response in the archive.
This is a very bittersweet thread for me. When this was posted, I was underage b&.
It's a weird fucking feeling, especially because I post on much faster boards. Over time though, I've found that my preferences shift to slower and slower boards.
I wonder if one day, I'll only post on a ghost board, days between posts, nevermind replies. Watching this thread makes me think about the heat death of the universe, and I'm a pretty comfy guy - I think that things are going to be alright, but this really puts everything into perspective.
Bless all those that read this post. I'll try making this clock one day, mark my words.
I can confirm posts are being deleted, my post saying >this thread will get another 6 years was deleted, why? guarantee this post will get deleted too which makes this thread a complete sham, if it survived 6 years on it own that would be something, but this isn't an achievement
Hahaha what the fuck, was looking through /po/ like I do once in a blue moon and had to do a double take to check if it was the same thread I replied to years ago. Bless this board and everyone in it
>>623076 That's just not nice anon, I decided to make this one with my little sister and now I have to find my way around to explain what's happening on the last picrel.
>does anyone have Paper Pendulum Clock kit or pattern? I have a kind of kit book but it quality is bad. pls share if you have better. I really want to make this one. thank you!
Hey guys, I just wanted to share mine. The video is from a science festival in which I explained to kids how clocks work. They were fascinated, and some of them were quite scared when I told them that I was going to charge its battery with water. It was a fun experience.
Note that the last frame is not glued so that it can be transported more easily.
>>623097 ayy!! super cool to see one of these in action finally. good work anon!
also goddamn it's surreal to see a still active 4chan thread made in 2016. i know this board has always been slow but holy moly 6 years? doesn't feel like it's been that long.
>>623097 fantastic work anon, you might come up with a couple nice printed panels for the front and use it like a normal clock if you can mount it somewhere at eye level, switch em out or make new ones whenever you're bored wa la paper faced paper made clock
>>623106 Depending on which part it is, you may need to laminate two sheets together or douse most of the paper in glue to get the needed rigidity, especially for the frame in general and the Frame A parts that support the weights (see instructions 36-38). For parts like the hands or other gears that aren't under much torque, 70gsm is probably fine.
>>623112 There are several things going on: 1) the directions do say to use slightly thicker paper than usual 2) the glue acts as a stiffener; glue+paper is a composite laminated material, essentially, and can stand up to force better than either material alone, and 3) a fold provides extra resilience along that axis; see the videos on "why folded pizza isn't floppy" or search for "gaussian curvature pizza" for more details (the fold restricts the degrees of freedom, more or less)
>>623114 It does have a battery, but it's not electric. See the water bottle hanging there? That's the (gravitational) battery.
When you lift an object, you are increasing its energy. If you then drop it, it will fall, releasing the energy.
That bottle over there is slowly falling (part of the mechanism of the clock is precisely ensuring that it will fall slowly and at a constant rate), giving its energy to the clock. When it gets to the floor, the clock will stop as the battery would be exhausted.
Performing a necropsy+attempting repair on a pocket watch taught me a couple things about clocks. I will someday make my own personal trip to paper clock mecca.
>>623142 The pendulum is to keep steady time. It's what lets the weight that powers the clock >>623115 fall at a controlled rate. Each swing of the pendulum allows the gears to advance one tick.
>>623115 >It does have a battery, but it's not electric. See the water bottle hanging there? That's the (gravitational) battery. You're being needlessly pedantic. It's not a battery BECAUSE it's not electric. When someone says "battery," like >>623114, they are obviously thinking of an electric battery.
>>623148 You put weight on a string and the gravity pulling on it will supply the force for the whole thing to work Once the weight goes down enough, you will have to reset it The rest is just gear fuckery
Seriously, sometimes the internet can be something simply absurd, a topic with more than 7 years of existence around a paper pendulum, that's wonderful, haha
Damn this thread has a multi years logn averarching plot and everything. An 8 year long project to make a clock out of paper for some reason I will never understand. Bravo anyway.
I've had this thread bookmarked for quite a while now. Looking at it in the archive tells a sad story of obsession and mental illness. I'm not sad to see it finally go, but it is a shame that it ends like this. https://archived.moe/po/thread/539494/
>>619467 The posts I linked were literally the 1st, 2nd, and 4th posts in the entire thread (the first two were also pdfs relevant to the thread topic). Well this thread is dying anyways so whatever. F to a legendary thread.
there's something poetic about attempting to suspend a thread about a clock in time forever whether it be a well-refined sense of irony or a perverse sense of nostalgia in the 24 hours since /po/ harbour, I've had some time to meditate on it, and although the raiding and the spamming and the flooding probably isn't the right way to pay respects to what has been a collective curiosity of the entire image board, continuing to bastardise the thread, up to and including the removal of posts that are actually crucial to the topic of the thread, seemingly just to spite the people that came to pay their respects, flies directly in the face of not just this website and how it was designed, but the very concept of linear time itself
and so, I shall leave you with this Boethius, mid-century Roman philosopher, theorized that time was a wheel >"Inconstancy is my very essence" says the wheel >"Cast yourself up on my spokes if you like, but don't complain when you are cast back down into the depths" >"Good times pass away, but then so do the bad" >"Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope" >"The worst of times, like the best, is always slipping away"
>>623217 The only way this thread is going to die is if we come together to make our own pendulum clock and post our daily progress here so that this thread can finally die the way it started. I'll try to see about making something about mine unique though. We must break the time loop.
>>622919 There's something quite quaint about a thread thats survived this long untouched by the troubles of modern life. sage in all fields, but in a positive sense.
>>623266 How much string you got, and how big a cylinder do you have to wrap it around? That's the only real thing limiting how long the clock will run before it needs winding. (It's nowhere near as efficient as a spring.)
Something about these 10 year old threads just get me. I start thinking about how much has happened to me and what i've done with myself. and yet these threads of posts and replies people probably forgot about still stand.
>>623272 I feel you. I was 16 when this thread was made, struggling through a terrible high school. Now I'm 25, and only just began my second semester of college, and found out I'm alt.
Man, imagine if the bump limit got extended to make this thread stay alive for a few more years longer, that'd be cool. Wish there was a mod based enough to do that
I can't take this shit anymore. Everything and everyone is dying. I'm so glad I got to save this thread before it falls off. This way it will never be archived or dead.
I'm tearing up for a fucking thread of all things.
Thank you guys. A lot of good things have happened because of this board. I hope we have all bettered ourselves in this time. If not, now is a good time.
>>628665 I despise change and all my old places but 4chan have been shut down in the last 10 years. >The people are what matter. And that is why I am still here, connecting us together on my HDDs. We are family.
>>628813 Lamo the first one was my thread, it was my first attempt at making something in blender and making a papercraft object of that size, eventually destroyed it at my birthday party with my friends and wore it on my head, good times.
>>628585 >I'm tearing up for a fucking thread of all things. I feel you anon. I get attached and sentimental over the smallest things. I have a hard time letting go. It almost feels like a dear friend is leaving you.
Posting a final (non-)bump in an epic thread... I hope you enjoy that clock, OP. /po/ is one of the last comfy boards on 4chan, sad how this place has gone to shit since this thread began :/
You know, seeing this thread getting closer to the end of its life has made me wonder, where am I going to go once this shit website actually fully collapses and dies off.
I know there are other image boards out there, but none of them are really any better than this place. Like, I've been using 4 chan for years, and have been watching it slowly decline over the last decade or so, but I still love this place and hate this place at the same time.
>>629152 I get what you mean. my life changed so much over the past 10-15 years. Back then I was a teenager. Now I am a married man. I guess I probably wont be here forever after all. I barely use any of the boards anymore. /v/ was one of the last few boards that I frequented all the time. but the /v/irgins there are barely discussing any fun old games anymore. and new /v/idya releases are putrid trash. So when this shit website dies, I'll simply accept it. I wont forget all the fun memories I've had here specially the ones before the covid years. I'll remember them fondly but I'll still move on.
>>629153 For me, there's just something special about chan culture. I just hate having an email, a name tied to everything that I do online, being able to post and talk about things without having anything attached to it, is just freeing.
I just hate that that side of the internet is almost totally gone. I know when 4chan is gone I'll probably end up looking for a similar place, failing and then giving up eventually and moving on.
(I just realised it's been a long time since I've done any origami. Think I'm just going to make some stars)
>>629152 I used to hang out on 420chan a lot. When it went under I found myself trying to find similar communities elsewhere. It's never the same. All you can do is move on instead of chasing the ghosts of the past.
>>629154 >For me, there's just something special about chan culture. I just hate having an email, a name tied to everything that I do online, being able to post and talk about things without having anything attached to it, is just freeing. That's probably the biggest reason I still bother coming here at all. That mech is fucking sick btw
>>629155 Yeah, I totally know what you mean. I guess it's all just nostalgia for the past.
>That mech is fucking sick btw This is wear I got the plans for the ray model if you're interested. https://www.paperizedcrafts.com/2016/04/metal-gear-rex-papercraft.html?m=1
This godforsaken site really shaped me as a person. I'm sure that's the case for a lot of you here. Don't forget the good times. Cheers to you all and goodbye to this thread :)
>>629254 I hope people don't look back at the world 10 years ago with nostalgia goggles on. there was some good back then just like there is some good right now. but it was also shit back then and it's shit right now.
>>629261 the thread's first decade birthday is coming up in 3.5 weeks
>>629279 >Are the jannies keeping this thread up artificially yes. for about a year now dozens of other threads got archived because they went past page 10. Meanwhile this thread's been on page 11 for a year now. no to mention it went past the bump limit a long time ago but they never get tired of deleting posts. this thread's lifespan is being artificially expanded by them. It should've been archived a year ago.
>>623148 You have to understand 3 parts: - the weight energy storage - the escape mechanism - the gear system
>the weight energy storage This kind of clock got their power from gravity. The water bottle (or whatever "heavy" thing) constantly "wants" to fall. So, if you fix a string on it, you can harvest it's energy. And if you roll the string around an axle, the weight will make it rotate until the string is as tight and unrolled as possible. This is the depleted state of your energy storage.
So at this point, you should understand how to make an axle rotate (as long as the weigh is falling). How do you use it in a clock? Here comes the...
>the escape mechanism That's the strange fork thing that moves back and forth on a gear. It's shape is such as when on each extreme position, it will block the rotation of the gear, and will allow one single tooth of the gear to slip when it goes from one extreme to the other, and still block the gear when going the other way. It basically transforms a continuous rotation into a sequential rotation. But as you may see (or try if you have the mechanism on hand) by maintaining it in it's center position, the gear turns freely. So you have to provide it momentum to force it's function in a form of a pendulum. That's why a weigh is fixed to it. The weight should be enough to make it swing and stop the gear with enough force. The length should be carefully calibrated for it's this parameter that determines the frequency of the back and forth.
But it may not be on oscillation per second, it's often one oscillation every other seconds. Which leads to [Part2]
>>629283 [Part2] >the gear system Here it's simple a question of gear reduction to make the hand axles rotate once per minute, and once per hour. Usually, you do it in multiple stages because one single 60:1 gear ratio would make enormous gears. So, if your pendulum gives you 1 tick per second, and your gear has 18 teeth, it takes 36 seconds to make a full rotation (remember it takes a full swing to free one tooth. So you will "ear" to "tics" for one movement). You have an odd ratio do cover, but don't worry. Step 39, Gear 4 and 1 give a 12:60 ratio goes to an other 12:60 then 12:48 then 20:40 You got your minutes. Then step 40, gear 1 and 2 provides a 12:48 then 15:45 ratio, giving you your hours. The strange thing is the minutes axle passing inside the hour axle. But it's a show off (and enhance readability). You could technically put the hour and minutes hand on different quadrants.
So, I hope I explained it correctly. Each part individually is not hard, but making everything work together is what makes the magic happen. Making it reliable is even more impressing, and in paper adds to the flex even more. But it's a really nice project and I wish anyone doing it good luck and steady hands.
>>629311 this is what's been happening for a year now lmao. everyone's acting all dramatic and melancholic for the past year and they've honestly been on that drama for no fucking reason at all haha