Category: Project

By the time the mechanism worked, the project had crossed an important line. It was no longer just an idea. It was no longer just a pile of Christmas parts. It was no longer just a CAD model, a 3D print, or a mechanism on the bench. It could tell time. But it still needed […]

By this point in the project, the outside of the clock made sense. It would look like an old elevator indicator. The face would be a semicircle. The numbers would run from 1 to 12. The hands would sweep across the arc. The lighting would glow from behind the face. But the part that made […]

The original idea sounded simple: Take an old elevator-style indicator and make it into a clock. That was the promise. That was also the problem. Old elevator indicators are beautiful because they are simple. A semicircular face. A row of numbers. A single pointer sweeping from one side to the other. At a glance, you […]

Several years ago, I took a daddy-daughter trip with Annabelle to Universal Studios. At the time, she was deep into Harry Potter. So naturally, we spent a lot of our trip wandering through that part of the park, taking in the details, the storefronts, the props, the atmosphere, and all the little bits of design […]