Giant brick clock (inspired by the work of Matt Denton)

7.5 times bigger than usual bricks.

Why 7.5 times? To match the printing dimensions of an Ender 3 and a CR6 SE.

There are two versions of the clock stand. You can choose to use the giant brick stand in one part or print it in three parts.

LED-illumination possibility included.

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

Creality

Printer: 

Ender 3

Rafts:

Doesn't Matter

Supports: 

Yes

Resolution:

0.2

Infill: 

15 %

Filament: does not matter PLA does not matter

Notes:

I used coloured transparent PLA for both versions to illuminate the clock stand with LEDs. For even better transparency I used the lightning infill feature of Cura 4.13 and changed the wall line count to 3.
Some parts need support, for instance the gear and the axle brick. All parts were printed on my Ender 3 and my CR6SE.

Have fun building it :-)

Post-Printing

Technical details

A Hicarer 28 mm long shaft quartz clock will fit inside the clock compartment. You may have to trim the clock hands.
The axle back part holds a MicroUSB socket and a little switch to power the LEDs with 5V.

I used preconfigured warm white 3 mm LEDs from SEKI.

The prototype clock gets its power from a USB-slot of my PC. If the computer is on, the clock is shining.

How I Designed This

Reference :-)

I viewed a video published from Matt Denton about his version of this clock.
I liked the idea and wanted to try it out if I could do it myself using Tinkercad. Turns ot, yes, I could.

Thanks Matt for the inspiration

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