My first experiments in printing a tourbillon involved the creation of small-module 3D-printed gears. I’ve shared the 3D files on Thingiverse so that anyone can make their own. When it’s all screwed and snapped together, it’s clock-sized: 4″ (102mm) in diameter. This windable watch consists of 51 printed parts, 15 pins, 14 washers, and 21 screws. The result is a reinvention of a classical tourbillon, adapted to 3D printing. Like the Deep Space Tourbillon, the ticking-unit should be in the center of the watch, and the hands should rotate around it, using big internal gears. With this in mind, I knew my 3D-printable watch needed to have a tourbillon. It’s a piece to really show off, and it takes 100% focus to achieve. With advancements in modern watchmaking a tourbillon is unnecessary, but designers still include it as a demonstration of their skills. In watchmaking, the tourbillon is a slowly spinning cage for the watch’s escapement and balance wheel, which is meant to average out the effects of gravity on the timepiece’s accuracy. I was obsessed with Vianney Halter’s Deep Space Tourbillon, a Star Trek-inspired wristwatch whose mechanics rotate visibly at its center. Then I got an Ultimaker 2 and a new challenge. This sparked my passion for 3D-printed clock design, and my first 3DP wall clock was ticking 6 months later. Next, I challenged myself to design a gear with a Swiss lever escapement - the mechanical linkage in a timepiece that swings back and forth and creates the “ticking” sound. I bought my first 3D printer in 2013 and immediately started creating custom Lego gears for my kids. Gift the gift of Make: Magazine this holiday season! Subscribe to the premier DIY magazine todayĬommunity access, print, and digital Magazine, and more Share a cool tool or product with the community.įind a special something for the makers in your life. Skill builder, project tutorials, and more Get hands-on with kits, books, and more from the Maker Shed Initiatives for the next generation of makers.
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Together tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators across the globe. A celebration of the Maker Movement, a family-friendly showcase of invention and creativity that gathers.The premier publication of maker projects, skill-building tutorials, in-depth reviews, and inspirational stories,.The Mini Mechanica part files are also available as a separate free download. For starters, he has recreated the central first-axis mechanism called the Mini Mechanica this subset serves well for new users to test out their own systems and parameters ensuring effective dimensional tolerances. Not all of the clock’s 230 components are 3D printed – metal screws, pins and ball bearings round out the assembly – but Justin is slowly printing all other parts spread across colors, materials and AM technologies. The Triple-Axis Tourbillon Mechanical Clock Design This approach spans the AM technologies of Fused Deposition Modeling (Stratasys FDM material extrusion), PolyJet (Stratasys material deposition), selective laser sintering (3D Systems SLS polymer powder bed fusion), direct metal laser sintering (EOS DMLS metal powder bed fusion), stereolithography (3D Systems and UnionTech vat SLA photopolymerization) and digital light processing (Stratasys Origin One DLP vat photopolymerization). Why not take advantage of all the additive manufacturing systems in use by PADT’s Manufacturing Division, and print at least one component on each? Recently Justin Baxter, PADT’s senior 3D Printing Service Engineer (with years of hobbyist clock-making under his belt), set out to reproduce the device with a twist. Mechanistic has previously done other awesome designs and this past Spring did a crowd-funding effort to support printing all the components on a hobby-type 3D printer.ĭepending on one’s donation amount, some or all of the intricate clock’s CAD files are downloadable. Check out this mesmerizing video of the clock in action.
A traditionally made Tourbillon watch mechanism ()Īn excellent write-up on this concept is on MyMiniFactory, which is also where you’ll find the fascinating design of a 3D-printable Tourbillon clock from a designer called Mechanistic.
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