Since the sun annually moves +/- 23.5 deg in declination, this digital gnomon sadly won't work when the sun heads toward the summer solstice from about 1 May to 10 Aug and likewise blanks out in the winter from about 5 Nov to 5 Feb. The only down-side is that the dotted numerals have light tunnels placed too close together, resulting in an entrance angle of only +/- 15 deg. This digital gnomon is a wonderful addition to both the world of dialing and 3D printing. Wheel - it would seem, what else But even here there are endless modifications, including even non-circular ones. Man is such a strange creature, something always does not suit him. This digital sundial can only be manufactured from 3D printing technology. Sundial 3D printed sundial shows the time in numbers. A French/English tech podcast, Julldozer explains that this project cannot be created through injection molding or other techniques of mass production. Even with a fast 3D printer, the dial takes about 35 hours of printer time. This open source project enables people to download the details from Thingiverse and buy the sundial from his Etsy shop. (133) 2.93 Digital Sundial 3D Digital Sundial Garden Sundial Outdoor Sundial Portable Sundial Pocket Sundial Digital 3D Printing Clock (249) 9.99 3D Printed Digital Sundial (206) 22. His free, open software script allows 3D printing for either the Northern or Southern hemisphere.įor those who do not have a 3D printer, he makes the digital dial available from his on-line store for $54 USD plus shipping. Here, this digital sundial is an interestingly exotic case: It seems almost perfectly well-suited. The sundial is adjustable for any latitude and rotates slightly to accommodate daylight savings time, site longitude, or the date's equation of time (though no markings are made so making these angles are guesswork). Click this link to download the source code for a 3D printer. He accurately describes how a sundial works good (except of course for placing a penguin at the north pole) and how the "tiny tunnels" generate "a complicated Swiss Cheese" of holes and grooves that result in a gnomon that casts sunlight in a dotted pattern of numbers that change promptly every 20 minutes running from 10am (10:00) to 4pm (16:00). Free STL file Improved pivot stand for digital sundial3D printer model to downloadCults Improved pivot stand for digital sundial Download Free Like Share Add to Make 2k views 3 likes 58 downloads 3D model description After breaking two of these stands I realized that it needed some improved support on the thin edge between the two parts. In a Mojoptix video (available in both French and English) the inventor describes how the digital gnomon shows digital time by making virtual "light tunnels" that burrow through a half-cylinder 3D software object. His software design (dated 13 October 2015) uses the 3D open software OpenSCAD described as "The Programmers Solid 3D Computer Aided Design Modeller". French inventor and maker of things Julien Coyne of Mojoptix has created an intriguing digital sundial gnomon that can be 3D printed.
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