Domino Clock uses an electromechanical display

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This clock concept uses big dominos with changing faces to display the time. As far as we can tell they haven't made it through to a finished product yet, but we loved the explaination of the engineering that went into the prototype. After the break you can watch [Eric] explain how he accomplished the design requirements of a slowly changing digit that uses no power to keep its state, which also … [Read more...]

LEGO robot lays dominoes not eggs

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[Mattias] brings the awesome once more with his LEGO robot that sets up dominoes. You'll remember his work from the wooden keyboard case and the mechanical binary adder. This time around he's still exercising those woodworking skills by making his own domino tiles, but it's the robot that makes this interesting. In the must-see video after the break the device lays perfectly straight, perfectly … [Read more...]