3D Hourglass in action

This is our first attempt for an Electronic Hourglass. Planned improvements include: (a) put the hourglass in a perspex tube (b) increase the brightness of the LEDs (c) improve the LED lighting pattern; right now the 'sand' defies gravity!.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Hourglass
• LEDs
• Microcontroller
• AVR

[Yewro2000]

Aren't hour glasses already in 3D?

[capnquack]

I think that your hourglass should fill up the bottom, not the top. X3

Also what happens when you flip it? Looks like it only goes one way.

[Anthonyk312]

@DeathToTheseWalls its just you. Its filling from the top.

[havabighed]

Um... the problem with this is... hour glasses dont fill up from the top to the bottom, they fill up from the bottom to the top.

FAIL!

[DeathToTheseWalls]

Either the camera can not pick up what is going on, or there really isn't anything going on. Looks to me like the LED in the middle just bounces around and the others more or less do nothing.

[MisterAlexUk]

That's very clever. I don't know why this has so many dislikes because that's a fine project you've made. It'd be interesting if you included accelerometer functionality... Or maybe something more basic like a tilt switch in order to determine the direction of flow!

[david00oo]

BORING !!!

[dfgdsfet]

no deveria ser hacia de abajohacia a riba el llenado

[TheLavaLamp101]

that is awsome

[LordKriscall]

WHY?

[Dookiedolf]

@spellbinderart I've got 3 sentances for you.

You cant patent a timer.

Trademark for an hour glass when nobody has used an hour glass since the LCD clock came into existance.

Fiat Punto

[spellbinderart]

I've got three words for you... Patent. ..Trademark.... Lamborghini. =)