This is the current release candidate for the Printable Clock Project. Many thanks to the many Thingiversians who have contributed over the last few weeks!
It is a work in progress and probably will need tweaking to even tick, let alone keep time. It currently has breakage issues in PLA, ABS is recommended.
Test Jig #2 was a major milestone, passing all four tests, featuring in the first video of a ticking printed escapement for this project ( http://www.prototribe.net/vidplay/testjig2.html )and serving as a development base for improvements from multiple Makers. If you want to print something that ticks, print Test Jig #2 with all the latest parts.
Test Jig #3 is intended to regroup all that progress into a new base camp for what we hope is the final push: an actual printed clock that keeps time. If you want to spend plastic and time in support of that goal, print Test Jig #3 and share with us what went right and what went wrong.
This current design is based on feedback from early adopters ssd, rustedrobot and TheRuttMeister, and in particular a very clever rustedrobot design for a ratcheting drum that rewinds the clock: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8555 Special thanks to Renosis for rendering gears 02 thru 07 on his machine last night when mine was not up to the challenge!
I've uploaded a snapshot of the code which generated these parts to this page, but the best place to find the latest and greatest is on github:
https://github.com/syvwlch/Printable-Clock-Project
Major improvements include: the ratcheting drum, countersunk holes for the frame, a snap-fit extendable pendulum, and an escapement design which should tick as printed (little or no hand-finishing required).
I tried to go for a four gear clock, but getting a 60:1 ratio in two gears is just not practical... the pinions get too small. I also went ahead and added hour and minute hands. I can make alternate parts for a hand-less version if the concentric shafts are too much of a problem.
| Clock-6G-00-Hands.stl | 116.2KB | |
| Clock-6G-01A-Drum.stl | 296.7KB | |
| Clock-6G-01B-Ratchet.stl | 1.3MB | |
| Clock-6G-02-Pinion.stl | 1.5MB | |
| Clock-6G-03-Pinion-FIXED.stl | 1.9MB | |
| Clock-6G-04-Pinion-FIXED.stl | 1.6MB | |
| Clock-6G-05-Pinion.stl | 1.6MB | |
| Clock-6G-06-Pinion.stl | 1.7MB | |
| Clock-6G-07-EscapWheel.stl | 886.8KB | |
| Clock-6G-10-Escapement.stl | 224.3KB | |
| Clock-6G-11-FrontFrame.stl | 231.1KB | |
| Clock-6G-12-BackFrame.stl | 538.7KB | |
| ClockBuilderScript.scad | 43.1KB | |
| ClockParameters-6G-12x60.scad | 12.6KB | |
| clockworkLibrary.scad | 32.9KB |
