Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock

Re:Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prot... by 0x4a42 on Saturday September 26, 2015 @05:03PM (#10284421)

Awesome. :)

The slogan is geat too, I would just drop the "literally" at the end, I think it's unneeded. "Time flows" is perfect IMHO.

Can you explain how did the idea grows in your mind?

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Re:Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prot... by eniax on Saturday September 26, 2015 @06:14PM (#10284606)

seems that HN won't allow him post more so he messaged me the answer:

--- yeah its funny, the first time i tried to make this was long time ago, here is the video 3 years old: https://vimeo.com/42313987

The idea was pretty spontaneous. I saw CZferro toys online and wanted to play with it so much. I ordered one and played with it and after a while i was thinking why couldnt this be something concrete. I loved the idea of translating something thats abstract in a visual sense to a concrete thing and back.

After that a clock came as a logical object, since it changes non stop.

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Re:Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prot... by 0x4a42 on Saturday September 26, 2015 @07:05PM (#10284756)

So you contreted your idea by concreting time as an object without a solid susbstance. I guess you got it right. :)

Thank you for the explanation. ;)

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Re:Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prot... by eniax on Saturday September 26, 2015 @06:01PM (#10284570)

Supposedly he felt like he needs to build something with ferrofluid the first time he saw that. There is a video of his first experiment somewhere, where the liquid was way less good looking but he managed to "fix" it over time and actually build the clock

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Re:Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prot... by 0x4a42 on Saturday September 26, 2015 @07:06PM (#10284765)

Thanks for your relaying of the info. ;)

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