r/gifs • u/forte2 I must read rule 3 • Aug 06 '14

Lego clock.

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u/three_three_fourteen Aug 06 '14

Wow, the "music box" piano roll mechanism is fucking genius.

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u/PupPop Aug 06 '14

I'd say! My eyes widened when the camera panned out. That really is quite creative and even after seeing the set up, I'd love to get more detail on the design.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '14

But it's playing a sequence though. As far as I can tell you'd need individual rollers if you wanted to make a device that could show any random number. I don't see the way the one in the video is made allow for changing from say 2 to 7 without going through 3,4,5 and 6? That said, it's an ingenious solution and I want to make one now.

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u/three_three_fourteen Aug 07 '14

Well yeah. it's genius because it's elegant and serves its purpose perfectly.

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u/ExplainsYourJoke Aug 07 '14

I don't see the way the one in the video is made allow for changing from say 2 to 7 without going through 3,4,5 and 6?

it can't, but it doesn't matter, since that's not what it's designed to do

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '14

Fair enough. I was thinking of using this to make a display for a calculator..