Everyone Has to Make an Infinity Clock ,its the Law!

by crazyg in Circuits > Clocks

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Everyone Has to Make an Infinity Clock ,its the Law!

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I wanted to make a timelaps video of the making of an infinity clock, (practice for the timelaps bookbinding) ,however the camera i used can use its battery faster than i can charge it.

it recorded until the point of getting the lights working, i only noticed it had stopped after the clock was complete.

Materials and Tools

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marerials

  • poundland clock (glass front is preferable to plastic)
  • mirror sticky back plastic (fablon) wilko and hobbycraft sell it
  • mirror window tint, halfords (or buy a sample from an ebay seller)
  • small light source, i used the backlight leds from a lcd screen.
  • power for the light source
  • switch

tools

  • soldering iron
  • wire cutters/strippers
  • screwdriver
  • scissors
  • craft knife
  • hole punch
  • pen
  • cloth to clean glass
  • hot glue gun
  • saw or something to cut plastic

Led Lights

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this is the sort of thing, i took a guess at 3volts being safe.

Soldering and Diagram

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video shows the tricky soldering bit. colour coded diagram shows how all the bits fit together

Stuffing It All in the Box.

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make sure the clock mechanism has got 12 in the right place, mine was a bit off so adjustments were made, took some photos whilst doing this as the initial video failed.