Following a surge of creativity fueled by the current lockdown, [Diglo] writes in with his tabletop clock driven by a robotic arm drawing on a Magna Doodle tablet. And if you have one of those still lying around with some old toys and don’t mind cannibalizing it for the project, you too can follow along the source files to build your own.
The clock works by exploiting the principle that Magna Doodle tablets work by being drawn on with a magnetic stylus. That way, to draw on one of them you don’t need to add a point of articulation to bring the pen up and down, [Diglo] simply attached a controllable electromagnet to the end of a two-dimensional SCARA arm. In total, the whole build uses three stepper motors, two to control the movement of the arm, and one on the back of the tablet to sweep a magnetic bar which “erases” it.
This clock is similar to another we’ve featured a few years ago, which also used a Magna Doodle, but greatly improves on the idea. If a Magna Doodle seems too childish to build a magnetic clock however, there’s always ferrofluidic displays to try to dip your fingers into, but we really think you should watch this one in action after the break first.
great implementation but not as elegant as :https://hackaday.com/2015/10/06/robot-clock-writes-time-over-and-over-and-over/
Is that another way of saying yours is better than his?
I don’t mind plugging your own project when it’s relevant, but saying yours is objectively better in the comments of another person’s project is kind of a rude/immature thing to do. Both of your projects are great for the different implementations. No need to exclaim that yours is more elegant.
Wonder if that could be modified to use an etch-a-sketch.
These use aluminium powder to form the screen and an internal stylus controlled by two knobs. To draw with.
They have to be shaken to erase them.
Just curious!
Well, that´s only a sketch of curiosity, not actual curiosity.
Real curiosity would have you dig these articles up:
https://hackaday.com/2018/09/28/bot-makes-etch-a-sketch-art-in-one-continuous-line/
https://hackaday.com/2012/05/14/your-mug-on-an-etch-a-sketch-automatically/
… whenever i read somebody writing “just curious” it seems it very often means
“just wondering and writing it down but too lazy to search for information and process it to answer the question by myself”
Or it’s just a figure of speech and you are just over analyzing and forcing your own biased perception of a stranger’s intent … not every statement or thought has to be researched, sometimes there’s value in sharing raw ideas to stimulate conversation and growth among a larger group.
Been done a few times, I think the current state of endeavor is now how to get it fast enough to play Doom.
Doom on every platform!