Time Twister, a Lego Mindstorms Digital Clock

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By John Baichtal
Posted 2011/10/27 @ 7:06 am
Category Fun & Games, Robotics

Hans Andersson, whose Tilted Twister was one of the first (if not the first) Lego Rubik’s cube solvers, created this elegantly engineered Mindstorms clock. [Via The NXT Step]

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9 Responses to Time Twister, a Lego Mindstorms Digital Clock

Craig Peterson on October 27th, 2011 at 8:22 am said:

That is amazing! I would love to see a breakdown of how the twisting mechanisms work. It reminds me of a standard combination lock, but I have no idea how I would begin to do that in lego.

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- Anonymous on October 27th, 2011 at 12:04 pm said:
  
  I’m likewise boggled by this. Where do people get all the special parts needed to do this stuff? It must cost an arm and a leg to obtain a few special parts that were only part of a couple specific kits. People who do these LEGO machines must have a fortune invested.
  
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  Jake Hildebrandt on October 27th, 2011 at 4:23 pm said:
  
  You should check out bricklink.com. It’s like a hardware store, but for LEGO. Rare parts do cost more, but you can buy anything you want one-by-one or in bulk.
  
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Anonymous on October 27th, 2011 at 1:01 pm said:

The flashing colon made me giggle for some odd reason.

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- Jake Hildebrandt on October 27th, 2011 at 4:24 pm said:
  
  Colons are always funny.
  
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Jake Hildebrandt on October 27th, 2011 at 4:26 pm said:

This is amazingly well engineered and brilliantly conceived! And extra points for the LEGO in-reference in the project’s title (intentional or not). I’d love some more deets on the twist mechanism too.

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Mary Eplett on March 16th, 2012 at 7:33 am said:

These guys must have nothing better to do but come up with this brilliant stuff. What is it boredom or curiosity that drives a grown person to build clocks from legos?

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