A wonderfully over-engineered way to fix a broken clock!

[thewayne]

Why fix a clock, or even replace the batteries, when, with a 3D printer and some Raspberry Pi programming, you can build a little robot to advance the minute hand sixty times an hour?!

Makes sense to me!

This is honestly quite cool.

https://gizmodo.com/the-most-wonderfully-over-engineered-way-to-fix-a-broke-1847501998

Comments

[warriorsavant]

Brilliant. Rube Goldberg enters the digital age.

[thewayne]

Isn't that great?!  I really want to get ahold of a 3D printer and see about making one.  Which made me remember that I know someone with one.... [insert evil laugh]

[silveradept]

This feels like the sort of thing that someone programs as a proof of concept for something bigger and more immediately useful to the eye, but it's a fun project all the same, and the googly eye on the robot is the perfect touch.

[thewayne]

Had to be a googly eye or one of those little puffballs with the two small googly eyes on top.  Could've been done in the opposite direction: "I've done something big and useful, let's do something small and silly!"