A little unconventional.............

Clock made of Leggo

Interesting clock i would like to see the movement.This guy has a good imagination.

Greg,
thanks for posting that. I have done a lot of work with lego and simple machines during my teaching days and always wanted to build a working clock movement, but never got around to it. That must have been a fun project. I wonder if it keeps time?

I don't know the man, but I sent him an email with our web address. Maybe he will be willing to share some secrets of the horological aspects of Leggos with us.


Best regards,

Greg

The Leggo Ancher.





The escape wheel.

This man Erick should get an award.

Best regards,

Greg

Erick sent me a quick response to my email.....

"To be honest, I haven't even tried to run it in years. It was very
finicky at best, but when it would run, it theoretically would go for
over 24 hours before resetting the weights (and would only lose a second
or two).

Fun thing, that clock got a lot of publicity lately on the web despite
the fact that I built it YEARS ago and really pay no attention to it in
my house whatsoever."

eric

Interesting response from Eric. It comes to mind that somewhere, I have plans for a Lego clock. I will have to do a bit of hunting.

I do have a Lego watch! Picture to follow when I get a chance to take it.

Some minor or major transgression is being done here. A watch is being posted in the clock section. Oh well!! (Just typical of how the crossover has infiltrated this group.)

Here is a picture of the Lego watch.

A more full description will be (appropriately) placed in the "fun watches" thread.

Well Tom, if we are on the subject of Lego horology there should be no reason why you can’t post your Lego wristwatch.

By the way, I don't see anyplace on the Lego watch to snap other Legos! It seems to me that a Lego watch should be capable of having other functions snap on such as a Lego repeater, Lego chronograph, and so forth.


Snappy regards,

Greg

Speaking of Lego clocks:

http://popbubble.com/Lego/LegoClocks/

In my youth, I did years of "research" with Legos, and never built a clock!

Andy

Greg,
There actually are attachments to the Lego watch. See the full set of pictures in the "Fun Watch" thread in the wristwatch section.

Andy,
That was a terriffic link to all the LEGO clocks. I had no idea there were so many. My Masters thesis was on teaching simple machines using LEGO and various teaching techniques. I also co-authored a book from the AIMS (Activities Integrating Math and Science) Foundation on the teaching of simple machines using LEGO.

Tom,

I was more interested in the architectural forms of Legos. Frank Lloyd Wright had something similar when he was young, "Froebel gifts" I think they were called. There were building blocks in one set, and color tiles in another, all of this eventually showed up in his work. Makes me wonder what some kids today will be doing years after they are playing video games where they are slautering people?

http://www.froebelweb.org/



Andy

Andy,

Thanks for the link. I'm blown-away by all those Lego clocks!

Greg