Wall Art Decoration -Mila1-

Hi all!

This simple machine is intended as a wall decoration but you can use it as a
timer I guess :P. I tryed to make it as simple as posible, I hope the the assembly video is clear enough.

I wanted to have some motion (without electronics) as a decoration. I needed an escapement and a driver.
The escapement I made from scratch, just by experimenting with introducing asymmetries. Involute gears are made with the help from an OpenSCAD library by GregFrost.

Files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4764530

I printed with standard quality with Cura slicer, no fancy settings.

I used raft for the prints because I had a lot of problems with the elephant's foot.

Maybe it would be better to increse the wall line count for the backplate.

Some cleanup is needed, like with any other 3d prints.

You can glue the not moving parts like the pendulum, mod and placers.

Attach a string to the drive gear and a weight to the other end of the string.

In the video I used this two big ball bearings together weighing 120g. If it's jumping around, reduce the weight.

The weight needed is depending on the material you use, afterwork you've done and how much friction you have left in the system.

The rest of the assembly is in the video, I hope it's clear enough.

You have to disengage the escapement and then wind it up. This is the simplest way I found without more moving parts.

Prototyping made a full bucket of trash. Hard for me to see this much of waste, but there is no shortcut. You have to print and see how it goes, fix each problem one after another.

Lots of variations posible, change the mod as you like spirals, optical illusions, favorite motives, logos etc.

I am waiting for your feedback :)