Retro Flip Watch AKA Flippy Thing Watch - Now with extra flippyness

Jeri makes a wrist watch from a vintage flip clock mechanism. She uses parts from an old clock radio, quartz watch and CDROM drive.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Flip
• Clock
• Watch

[jone3333333333]

how does the clock work

[jeriellsworth]

@jone3333333333 It has little cards that fall down when the spindle in the middle rotates.

[GratefulJWB]

That deserves an article in Make magazine! I have a few of these old clocks with seized 115v motors, and would love to get a few back in operation.

[wadavison]

Amazing and hilarious!

And, yeah, I'm totally in love with Jeri...

[evanmwstuart]

this is disgusting.

[williefleete]

i've made a watch that displays in binary with an hourly that beeps the number of hours past midday/night while showing the time in 24 hour plus it has a set alarm which beeps until its turned off or the hour increments

it all just squeezes into a small jiffy box with an analogue clock driver board and a PICAXE 20M micro

[psyborg303]

lets see you get on a plane with that

[ngneer999]

You have way more free time than I have.

[jone3333333333]

and can you make your own?

[gotchastudio]

Great Idea!! you can call it "Weight training clock" :D

[honduhchicken]

What's with the fruit laughing in the background? That killed it for me.

[johnfranks]

is your brushed motor accurate enough to prevent undershoot / overshooting?

i picked up one of these clocks from the thrift shop and after a quick once over, i think a stepper will give me the most accuracy.

fwiw, the original motor is called a synchronous motor.

good job!

-jc