Making A Billion-Year Lego Clock

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Building a mechanical Lego clock that keeps time for 10000000 years. The clock has dials to display seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millenia, mega-annums and galactical years (time required for the Sun to orbit once around the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy).
The first component resembles a grandfather clock with a weight-driven pendulum anchor escapement. The escapement wheel rotates 1 tooth per second. Different gear trains transmit motion from the escapement to all complications from days to years to decades.
As soon as the weight touches the ground, a rewinding motor is triggered to raise the weight and “recharge the clock”. This happens every 2 minutes. A solar powered battery fuels the energy storage for the electric rewind motor. Under a cloudless sky the solar panel generates more energy than consumed by the Lego pendulum clock. A bigger energy storage could be added to run the clock at night time. To increase solar panel efficiency the solar panel is mounted on a tilting mechanism that is connected to the 24h complication, following the sun during daytime.
Similar to an astronomical clock, this Lego timepiece features complications beyond minutes and hours. It displays units of times based on orders of magnitude of the second. Days, mean months and years are counted. The biggest unit is the “billion year display” that is basically a mechanical counter displaying years in decimals.
Chapters:
00:00 Escapement
01:38 Winding
02:36 Automatic Winding
03:46 Gearing
05:15 Day
06:26 Year
07:50 Solar Panel
08:52 Lifetime
09:18 Year Counter
10:00 Cosmic Year
Camera used for this video: amzn.to/3J50QZq
Microphones used for this video: amzn.to/405sX0X
Please note: I get a commission if you buy via Amazon link above. Thanks for your support.
Where I get my Lego parts from: www.bricklink.com/v2/main.page
Sources:
Crate complex gear ratios: • How to use a Lego Tech...
Subtractor to change 365.25 to 1: static1.squarespace.com/stati...
1 to 10 ratio chain mechanism:
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Music: Hovering Thoughts by Spence
Cold Blue by Astron
#bricktechnology
#legotechnic
#lego
#asmr
#engineering
#horology
#clock
#time

Пікірлер: 5 000

@BrickTechnology 11 ай бұрын

Find the hidden Lego minifigure

@adam69master 11 ай бұрын

10:25

@karaco-6931 11 ай бұрын

10:27

@Mark_catface 11 ай бұрын

@@karaco-6931 wow nice

@official_julianvandermade 11 ай бұрын

10:29 top left 😮

@michelemng4570 11 ай бұрын

12:55

@swobiy1296 11 ай бұрын

Props to the camera man for spending hundreds of galactic years filming this clock for us.

@patfre 11 ай бұрын

Serious dedication for our entertainment

@rai8855 11 ай бұрын

Props to that editor for reviewing the whole footage tho 😮

@thatcringyplaneguy 11 ай бұрын

You took me joke

@patfre 11 ай бұрын

@@thatcringyplaneguy you took me grammar

@darklight810 11 ай бұрын

Oh burn😮

@ouzoloves 11 ай бұрын

I love the concept that this is all accurate based on 25cm being the distance needed for exactly 1 second

@dadbear5316 11 ай бұрын

In Earth's gravity at sea level

@aoyuki1409 11 ай бұрын

its accurate enough for a few months i believe

@ivorvp612 11 ай бұрын

The lenght should be 24.849 cm so it's pretty close but probably not close enough for a billion-year clock lol

@danielchick1 11 ай бұрын

He forgot leap years

@Infinite_Maelstrom 11 ай бұрын

@@danielchick1 no he didn't, he used 365.25 days/year. The .25 accounts for a leap year every 4th year. He did forget to account for the fact that the year is actually closer to 365.24 days long, though (so every 100 years or so, the leap year is skipped).

@torvasdh 7 ай бұрын

The school, work, retire clock is just depressing

@EmmanuelGiouvanopoulos 27 күн бұрын

Agreed

@matheusandrade1260 9 күн бұрын

Me too

@Si7ne 4 күн бұрын

Cheer up bro, we will enjoy this life

@eLIPHAS3333 5 ай бұрын

My Grandfather was a Horologist(watch/clock maker) and would appreciate this far more than I ever would, but I still find this fascinating. Awesome work man.

@SWISS-1337 3 ай бұрын

I'm a horologist too. But not the kind that works with watches.... Sorry to turn your very wholesome comment into such a dumb joke.

@blakeburrow5744 3 ай бұрын

@@SWISS-1337less academically inclined, more horizontally reclined

@SWISS-1337 3 ай бұрын

@@blakeburrow5744 hahaha. I legitimately laughed out loud at that one.

@SWISS-1337 3 ай бұрын

@blakeburrow5744 less Chronometrically cognizant, more casual coitus.

@GuyFromJupiter 3 ай бұрын

So was my mum, but she didn't crow about it as loud as you

@imovieremixer 11 ай бұрын

This needs to be an official lego set. That’s how awesome it is.

@Quantumquinten7co 11 ай бұрын

Then it is 500 $/€/¢/£/¥/₱

@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj 11 ай бұрын

Yeah!

@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj 11 ай бұрын

120 dolllars!

@Quantumquinten7co 11 ай бұрын

For the true price it's research time 😏💻

@Quantumquinten7co 11 ай бұрын

The price of every brick in it

@R_Dx_ 11 ай бұрын

The amount of engineering you put in a 13 min video to make this masterpiece is much more than my 4yrs college engineering degree.

@KasSo89 11 ай бұрын

Your degree must mean nothing then

@GangOfVortex 11 ай бұрын

@@KasSo89 buuuuh!!

@Neptunes_Bounty 10 ай бұрын

@@KasSo89Must Must?

@Neptunes_Bounty 10 ай бұрын

@@KasSo89Must Must?

@SillySillygoose_ 10 ай бұрын

Sooooo you’re gonna turn into rce?

@T.A95 7 ай бұрын

This video single handedly make me understand how Grandfather Clock works. I've been wondering for quite awhile but I never see a video that break down this simple.

@zelwinters1981 4 ай бұрын

You know, growing up I could tell you how to build an atomic bomb, but not how a mechanical clock works. Not until recently when I saw the escapement mechanism, then I understood it all.

@yukelalexandre8885 Ай бұрын

Yeah no, you fucked up big time. Leap years are NOT every four years. They’re every four years except for every 100 years EXCEPT for every 400 years. So 1600 and 2000 are leap years, but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were NOT!!!! Hence your clock is gonna be ONE YEAR OFF COMPLETELY after ONLY 48,800 years. Which makes this clock USELESS on a Billion Year time scale. And don’t get me started on the extra seconds added on occasion.

@T.A95 Ай бұрын

@@yukelalexandre8885 what are talking about?

@lordzombox Ай бұрын

@@yukelalexandre8885 the days get longer as time passes, so for a billion year clock to be perfect it would need to be able to adapt to the change of duration of an earth year. The best we can do is approximation, and the one in the video is pretty cool in it's own. not perfect but still nice

@justhaku9240 Ай бұрын

@@yukelalexandre8885it's hard to tell if this is a joke, but in the case of it not being one this comment is unhinged

@GreenRobotCat6877 2 ай бұрын

NGL, the final reveal was amazing, and it made me cry a little, because it also displays something VERY precious in us, we humans have a limited life span to 80-100 years of existance and we need to cherish every second of it. Stay healthy, stay safe, and most definitely take very good care, live your life, live it well! Beautiful piece of artwork my guy!

@GreenRobotCat6877 2 ай бұрын

Idk it's probably the music that's making me cry.

@hectorwu8729 2 ай бұрын

Trueee

@yukelalexandre8885 Ай бұрын

@GreenRobotCat6877 Ай бұрын

@@yukelalexandre8885 🤓 much?

@yukelalexandre8885 Ай бұрын

@@GreenRobotCat6877Unsure what you mean by that emoji except acknowledging I’m 100% right and that the video’s title is a LIE. This issue came in in 1582 when they moved the date by 11-12 days after 15 centuries of doing it wrong hence the 15 - 3 = 12. 400, 800 and 1200 were leap years, all other century years were NOT. They discovered the Maya had the math right and we didn’t, the winter solstice no longer had the sun at the lowest point on the horizon on December 21st. Also why the orthodox are offset: they stuck to the old wrong date. Another interesting fact: Jesus is said to have been born on the 25th but thats likely false. The ONLY and MAIN reason that this is the chosen date is because the sun starts rising on the horizon again on that very day. Yup, it is that simple.

@ora2j251 11 ай бұрын

I really wish Lego made official kits like these, that actually have a function. I'm sure i'm not the only one.

@mikakorhonen5715 11 ай бұрын

LEGO has wrong type of designers. They care about only looks.

@fishingnxj 11 ай бұрын

Yes,you're not the only one

@verios44 11 ай бұрын

Its because they market 95% of their stuff towards kids. Heck they are scrapping mindstorms. That tells you everything you need to know. Still even with that not a factor the adult lego fan community is very small. They are a company that makes profit. Sadly money is the answer.

@Yomotomen 11 ай бұрын

Well, to be fair, because of friction loss, past a week this build is entirely inaccurate

@dulussy 11 ай бұрын

@@Yomotomen wait, are you meaning to tell me that this won't ACTUALLY last until a billion years?

@_ikako_ 11 ай бұрын

Amazing that this was made billions of years ago and it was only uploaded today! I didn't know Lego has been around that long, but it's clearly a force of nature at this point!

@chrishartley4553 11 ай бұрын

Are you still using AOL? That might explain it.

@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj 11 ай бұрын

Bruh

@smallw1991 10 ай бұрын

Lego hasn't been around that long, this is ancient lego, which inspired lego. Ancient lego is the oldest material in the Milky Way.

@senna7811 10 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@TheFelix07 9 ай бұрын

@@smallw1991 in the whole universe* Probably a Multiversal material

@IluminousOne-9.7.2 Ай бұрын

I don't care about the cons of being immortal, I wanna live long enough to see this clock in its full power

@TheARESClanGaming 6 ай бұрын

I’m ASTOUNDED. It’s unbelievable that people can even come up with something as complex as this and then build it out of the same things my Technic McLaren F1 car is made out of. That’s amazing. I was glued to the screen for all 13 minutes. This is one of the greatest videos I’ve ever seen on KZfaq.

@yukelalexandre8885 Ай бұрын

@corypride5096 10 ай бұрын

I can no longer comprehend how a differential works so to me your creations are truly magical.

@renzdeorodriguez7078 10 ай бұрын

W donation

@BrickTechnology 10 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot

@TRB_TheRedBrick 10 ай бұрын

@@renzdeorodriguez7078 this isnt roblox pet simulator x

@renzdeorodriguez7078 10 ай бұрын

@@TRB_TheRedBrick what? I ain't playin that p2w game lol

@Billy_plays2017 10 ай бұрын

@@TRB_TheRedBrickthat game sucks

@I.____.....__...__ 11 ай бұрын

This went from interesting to impressive to amazing to existential dread to cosmic horror so quickly. 😲

@berliandro 10 ай бұрын

Fact

@SlartiMarvinbartfast 10 ай бұрын

I suddenly experienced this yawning chasm of time that stretched both behind and in front of me. And that was just for our universe ......

@Aisenheim 10 ай бұрын

Right?! School ~ Work ~Retirement... that part got me thinking

@leonardotonelli3946 10 ай бұрын

I wanna buy it

@davidmolin8944 9 ай бұрын

It was all going so well, then the lifetime counter came in and I suddenly became very self aware, why Lego you gotta do this to me 😭

@therealJakey37 7 ай бұрын

We need more smart people like this to build Lego. Lego is like a portal to creativity and so many people are missing out on it.

@henryogan2017 Ай бұрын

Subscribed. I've been looking all over for how mechanical pendelum clocks worked, but this guy not only explained it, but also built one from scratch, out of something as relatable as Lego, and while taking his time to educate us on each step in detail! I would honestly even recommend that schools use this for teaching material for physics class

@Welocked 10 ай бұрын

This man lived 230 million years to record this video. Thanks for his work.

@Kjamilex 9 ай бұрын

Kidding? The galactic year counter spun hundreds of times during the demonstation, he must have started building this some time before the big bang.

@OrengarMK3 9 ай бұрын

@Kjamilex, that's, 💯 CORRECT

@tomcarter5201 9 ай бұрын

bruh left me in stitches 🤣🤣

@Touplopl 9 ай бұрын

yea this is so confusing edit : just 5 lines to go * 4

@delorean_time 8 ай бұрын

Damn it looks like I'm going to have to get into a DMC-12 to go 230,000,000 years later to confirm this video.

@InternalRevenueService-IRS 11 ай бұрын

It’s absolutely astonishing it took this 1.46 billion years to make this video, props to the generations that took the time and effort to record and watch over this magnificent creation

@FriedRice3519 10 ай бұрын

Fr (French revolution)

@hyrofx9124 10 ай бұрын

@@FriedRice3519 FR (Fried Rice)

@user-te4rg3xy9f 10 ай бұрын

@@hyrofx9124EFR(Egg Fried Rice)

@KenzieIsKenzie 10 ай бұрын

@@user-te4rg3xy9fFr (frederick)

@nalen49 10 ай бұрын

@@KenzieIsKenzieFr Free Rices

@bikerdude923 5 ай бұрын

I love watches, especially mechanical ones, and this was just beautiful. Amazing how such a mechanically simple device can cause you to have to think about the nature of existence and ponder the impossible to comprehend.

@d4nd31o 6 ай бұрын

Fun fact - In 1901 A.D. One Greek diver of a team exploring a sunken wreck off the island of Kythera stood on a small object among the debris, causing serious damage to his foot, which hurt for around ten to fifteen minutes. Upon closer inspection of the retrieved item by the Emergency Services who responded to the call it was revealed to be a piece of ancient LEGO. Furthermore, since LEGO wasn't known to have been available in Kythera during 1901, a secondary diving team was sent back down to the site of the wreckage to investigate some more, finally, they happened upon what we now know of as the 'Antikythera Mechanism' a small distance from where the original diver was injured. The object, of course, had simply fallen off of this! Finaly, the mystery was explained and so it goes that no questions were left unanswered. Yay!

@dAni-ik1hv 11 ай бұрын

props to the cameraman filming all of these time transitions in real time he is a real hero

@MawDaws 11 ай бұрын

I knew that this damn comment was gonna be here

@mission2858 11 ай бұрын

I called it that this would be here.

@legojoseph 11 ай бұрын

the real goat

@masterofscience4829 11 ай бұрын

he is the same cameraman who shot the flash movie

@legojoseph 11 ай бұрын

@@masterofscience4829 thanks, that's where I thought I saw it

@fofish5392 11 ай бұрын

Crazy how this man dedicated 3000 years of his life to make this. 🙏

@LevelUpGA 11 ай бұрын

Only 3000? More like few trillions 😅

@Evilcarrot507 10 ай бұрын

And he travled back in time to upload this video in 2023.

@zkszentr 10 ай бұрын

@@Evilcarrot507 but how?

@Sebdet9 10 ай бұрын

@@zkszentr lego technic time machine

@zkszentr 10 ай бұрын

his ancestors?

@Zoukos23 7 ай бұрын

Can't wait for future archaeologists to find this and realize it's still working

@TBM_Gamer 8 ай бұрын

This would actually be an amazing Lego set.

@Juicethechild 9 ай бұрын

Lego needs to hire this guy and make this an actual official product as this actually also looks good

@rewonkawebber 7 ай бұрын

Wait a few weeks and you can find ali😂

@CaptainJamesCook-cl6qq 6 ай бұрын

I mean look how intricate this is could you imagine building it even with instructions and surely a build like this would be insanely expensive

@kimiyotodeidera6902 5 ай бұрын

@@CaptainJamesCook-cl6qqThat sounds mad fun though, just a project you do for a few weeks. A much simpler one though, maybe from seconds to a year? That seems reasonable.

@davegaming6564 5 ай бұрын

@@CaptainJamesCook-cl6qq dont care, take my money. i'd make this clock the center piece on my dining room wall.

@seychnor7720 5 ай бұрын

Bro has more reboot cards then my friend on his left pocket hell nah

@xFarmerGilesOfHamx 10 ай бұрын

The amount of math, creativity and care that went into this is unbelievable.

@abhishekjain6452 10 ай бұрын

Math not that much. Simple gear ratios and rough approximations that probably isn't mathematically accurate. Creativity is out of this world.

@DatBoi_TheGudBIAS 10 ай бұрын

@@abhishekjain6452 phisics more likely

@dyanosis 9 ай бұрын

@@squaredcircle1111 Thank you for saving me the trouble of having to correct them.

@sparkzter3957 7 ай бұрын

Can't believe people before some hundreds of galactic years built and recorded for future generations.... truly inspiring 😔

@jukeboxfandango 18 күн бұрын

I can't believe you actually went through the trouble of filming the clock for 3000 years for this video. We would have taken your word for it

@ibuildstuff 11 ай бұрын

Why is this the most meaningful video I’ve watched in a very long time- makes you realize how insane the concept of time is and also reminds you that your time here is limited…

@gunni1195 11 ай бұрын

ong i agree

@expilidocios 11 ай бұрын

Its legos chill tf out

@extremehauntergaming8711 11 ай бұрын

@@expilidocios It’s literally a clock where there’s a measurement of a human lifetime multiple factors away from a single galactic year.

@markmallory2528 11 ай бұрын

Yep, that 80 year module albeit genius is a bit eerie. 🥺

@AshrZ 11 ай бұрын

@@expilidocios your point is invalid. It's legos, so you should be anything but chill!

@teflons 10 ай бұрын

This contraption goes far beyond the confines of what I think of when hearing the word "clock". This is an astounding work of art. As both an artist and product designer, it brings me imense joy to see engineers push the boundaries of their medium every once and a while to make something as unique and thought provoking as this. In my experience working alongside countless engineers throughout my career, too often I see them forget that the fastest, most efficient way to solve a problem is not the end result, but the beginning. It takes as much if not more creativity as it does efficiency to create a truly memorable object/experience such as this; something far transcending conventional assumptions and subsequent applications. You are an amazing designer and I know for a fact that by continuing to make profound and engaging content such as this, you will go on to inspire the next generation of engineers, artists, and creators to pursue their passions. I have never subbed to a channel so fast and cannot wait to see what you come up with next.

@dudeguyduder3787 10 ай бұрын

Ye I’m not reading that…

@pendergastselim 10 ай бұрын

Awesome comment. Thanks for your perspective.

@Rathmun 10 ай бұрын

Are you aware of the Clock of the Long Now? It's a project trying to design and build a mechanical clock that can actually run and keep accurate time for ten *thousand* years.

@teflons 10 ай бұрын

@@Rathmun Holy shit, I wasn't before but I am now. Seriously considering flying to Texas to hike up the mountain and wind that bad boy myself.

@ned2938 10 ай бұрын

@@dudeguyduder3787 Takes less than a minute to read

@oghcuteanimationhq5121 22 күн бұрын

The fact that your contraption actually *ticks* just amazes me for some reason

@UNLKYHNTR 7 ай бұрын

Once you added the ratchet, i was like "aaah, that's why you turn that thing and this is what it does!". You've explained so much without saying a word. That's why learning things the practical way is so much better

@ObscureHedgehog 11 ай бұрын

One of the most incredible videos I've ever watched. Difficult to describe what I felt towards the end. Thank you for this.

@EnjoyCocaColaLight 11 ай бұрын

Melancholy and despair. You felt melancholy and despair.

@larsdebaat2157 11 ай бұрын

This

@yesno7378 11 ай бұрын

It’s just a bit of spinning plastic

@ShamblerDK 11 ай бұрын

@@yesno7378 I guess you'd have trouble imagining not having breakfast.

@yesno7378 11 ай бұрын

@@ShamblerDK right?

@vladimirpain3942 11 ай бұрын

I am honestly impressed. This is what I call determination. To record something for over 230 millions of years just to prove the concept. Briliant.

@vaakdemandante8772 10 ай бұрын

if PoC took this long, imagine how much longer it will take to build the actual thing ;)

@HassaniSabbah01 14 күн бұрын

Simply the best lego construction I ve ever seen.

@1CO1519 6 ай бұрын

This video is simply fenomenal! Wonderful work! Thanks for posting this gem.

@hendrikpoggenpoel4508 11 ай бұрын

This honestly looks like some kind of time machine. It looks incredible

@thromboid 11 ай бұрын

Which is what it is, of course. Nice!

@ckv1985 11 ай бұрын

It is

@sayounsang 11 ай бұрын

All clocks are time machines.

@hendrikpoggenpoel4508 11 ай бұрын

@@sayounsang I guess you're right lol

@D-Bri 11 ай бұрын

Oh if anyone could make a time machine out of lego, it would be the person who provides the content for this channel!

@AndyAtHome 10 ай бұрын

You made a solar-powered clock that can count higher than our sun will exist for. Impressive!

@OrengarMK3 9 ай бұрын

I think the clock will last 5 billion years before it gets vaporised

@dasemifake 9 ай бұрын

How does it get energy at night? 😂

@dominicespinosa9154 9 ай бұрын

@@dasemifake Well the clock uses about 26 joules every two minutes but the solar panels generate about 30 joules every minute or about 60 joules every two minutes but for this example let’s say you could store an infinite amount of power and every year it was about 50% day and 50% night so every 2 minutes you would gain about 34 joules of power so every 20 minutes you saved about 340 and every hour you saved about 1020 joules of power and every 12 hours you saved about 12240 joules of power but then it’s night so let’s ignore moonlight gains and just say we didn’t generate any power now I’m using a calculator for the rest of this so every two minutes you spend about 26 joules of power and then you spend about 260 joules of power every 20 minutes and about 780 joules every hour and finally about 18720 but! we divide it by 2 because 18720 is based of 26 joules per minute not two so really you spend about 9360 joules per 12 hours and if we do 12240 (about the amount we gained)- 9360 (the about the amount we spent) = thus leaving us with about 2880 joules left and that is how much we gained over 24 hours aka 1 day so this clock would not stop during the night

@dasemifake 9 ай бұрын

@@dominicespinosa9154 Yes, but the battery (mechanical weight) is not that big/long... so about half a day. Also If we are going precise, during winter it does not generate enough electricity due to reduced sunlight intensity and time exposure. The solution is to place it on the equator or to put more complex orientating system for the panels to be perpendicular to sun rays or to simply add more. Edit: Complex meaning one more perpendicular axis to move the panels one period every year.

@dominicespinosa9154 9 ай бұрын

@@dasemifaketrue but it’s just a theory … a game ther- nah that’s kinda out of place

@susanbakker1966 7 ай бұрын

I bet that one day he is gonna make a functioning 50 kiloton thermonuclear warhead one day

@AnthonyJClink 5 күн бұрын

out of legos no less

@CygnusiaX1 2 ай бұрын

I would 100% buy this kit. This should be in Lego Ideas!

@DFWRailVideos 11 ай бұрын

I can't believe the cameraman watched this clock for several Galactic Years to get those amazing sped up shots. That's a feat of engineering that matches what the clock can do.

@ZanderStrom10 11 ай бұрын

Respect 🫡

@alveolate 11 ай бұрын

why use cgi when you can just sit there and record it for a few multiples of 230 million years amiright

@BlueCat16 11 ай бұрын

True Indeed

@foooosh 11 ай бұрын

@@alveolate i do it all the time

@herrgerd1684 11 ай бұрын

Imagine the file size of that footage. 🤯

@jimyvanloock3510 11 ай бұрын

Would love to start seeing this in the background, just ticking away and counting how long it's been since you first made it

@-jl. 11 ай бұрын

Yes!

@unjacaranda890 11 ай бұрын

I agree

@GrumpyGrampa 11 ай бұрын

I concur

@isaiahmaljaars3109 11 ай бұрын

You have my agreement.

@kamikaze12 11 ай бұрын

Il allow it

@AlexanderWilithinIII 2 ай бұрын

This is quite possibly the coolest lego creation I've ever seen.

@TheXtremeBoltGuy 19 күн бұрын

I would like to request instructions on how to build this myself, this is awesome!

@lachlanparker570 11 ай бұрын

I still, genuinely and seriously, believe that you have equalled, if not surpassed, what LEGO themselves are doing. That's considering every single project, although this one has topped it all. I am so damn jealous of what you're able to do here. Sure, it's painstakingly slow and twice as tedious, but your skills, knowledge, resources, talent, and intelligence types put so many others to shame. And it was a good idea to outsource certain individual mechanisms. Makes things easier for you while also leading the way towards potential collaborations.

@strangerofthe2067 11 ай бұрын

The knowledge and skill it takes to make something like this is INSANE! You NAILED it with this comment 👍

@lachlanparker570 11 ай бұрын

@@strangerofthe2067 I have the mind for mechanical engineering, although I failed to do anything important with it.

@omgodification 10 ай бұрын

This has the same feeling as watching the beginning of a steampunk film with a clockmaker building the most fantastical, yet complex contraption you've ever seen in your life. Props to ya!

@oijin6126 8 ай бұрын

wat movie?

@omgodification 8 ай бұрын

@@oijin6126 idk, a theoretical one

@rollozucco209 8 ай бұрын

sell your idea to Steven Spielberg!

@rollozucco209 5 ай бұрын

You should view " Wintergarten" gonevyils instrument

@degeneracy9390 7 ай бұрын

Props to this guy for spending billions of years making this and then demonstrating it.

@DrDingsGaster 7 ай бұрын

I would buy this officially as a set man- this is damn cool.

@AlphinedMiles 9 ай бұрын

Came in to see how a clock worked, came out with many existential questions I love how at 12:31 you put 61.32 turns since big bang, I never considered that being a measurable value from a human machine, and honestly I think it's a beautiful concept, to think of a machine that existed since the beginnings of the universe and seen stars rise and fall to suddenly find peace in our World doing what it always has, keeping track of time

@Pyxis10 5 ай бұрын

If he wanted to he might have been able to push this to the end of the Stelliferous era 100 trillion years from now. Sadly don't think he could easily do the Degenerate or Black hole era's due to the sheer lengths of time withing them.

@chieseledboockshelf 5 ай бұрын

He is the god 🗿

@zelwinters1981 4 ай бұрын

@@Pyxis10 I feel if we disregard the wear on the plastic over the eon - never mind that the weight string would need replacing every few years - that entropy would probably tear it apart before it got anywhere close to the next Stelliferous era. 🙃

@pitthepig 2 ай бұрын

@@zelwinters1981well considering it uses solar energy to work, even without wear the clock should stop working when the sun dies.

@elicapone4954 Ай бұрын

Its not measurable because it never happened

@nyaKona 11 ай бұрын

12:02 this timelapse is so beautiful. I love how the motion blur quite literally blurs the motion of time.

@jostromp7380 11 ай бұрын

12:37 also

@rodrigomonney 7 ай бұрын

This is actually beautiful.

@SirSchewe 4 күн бұрын

Pretty amazing piece of engineering. I do feel like the start-stop stress on that rewind motor would be a potential problem though

@TimothyBoersma99 9 ай бұрын

Mind is blown completely. Can't imagine the time that went into making this video. The clock you added representing a lifetime really hit me hard. We won't be here forever, we've got to make the best of things while we're here!! Incredible video, absolutely astonishing.

@delorean_time 8 ай бұрын

I seem to know how. He probably has a "DMC-12" and traveled through time to confirm this video.

@zatywy6706 11 ай бұрын

Please please please note down all the bricks used ! This would be absolutely amazing as a set! Maybe not all the way to a billion, but having one that goes to a week is already so amazing and would be super cool as a desk ornament!

@Phoenix-Saika 11 ай бұрын

Excpecially seeing as it's 100% lego, besides the weights, and even gives itself energy (when the sun shines)

@Dannymon 11 ай бұрын

Definitely! I think it would be very loud tho, so i probably wouldn't get this either way

@BrickTechnology 11 ай бұрын

The weights are lego too. Lego made 19mm metal balls for an education set

@Phoenix-Saika 11 ай бұрын

@@BrickTechnology I ment the round weights on the pendulum, or are those lego as well?

@FactorySoylent 11 ай бұрын

@@BrickTechnology I think @Phoenix means the steel washer that replaced the wheel as a pendulum and was covered by white discs.

@ultrasonicradiation 2 ай бұрын

The battery of the camera is amazing to last for a billion years filming the clock without recharge. Technology has improved so much.

@user-ui1mh2xf4x 2 ай бұрын

This is super interesting, and actually helps people understand how clocks work in our modern electronics (real-time clocks using an oscillating crystal), both operate based on physical principles related to the conservation of energy and the laws of motion. Great video!

@boblodiablo 11 ай бұрын

To start with the pendulum, and show every conceivable gear ratio to achieve all modern timetables. And then link them all together in one fully functioning system. That piece should be in the Smithsonian. Every single engineer who is in here with me watching you is in awe of your brilliance. This one is truly a work of art.

@ezmna57 10 ай бұрын

It’s crazy how some simple bricks can resemble such an unfathomably, incomprehensibly large amount of time

@cyprianmm8293 8 ай бұрын

Needs to be in a museum.

@CP117 7 ай бұрын

That's the most beautiful thing I saw on YT :)

@autopick1902 11 ай бұрын

i didnt know how clocks worked before this video, the precision required really uped my appreciation for clock craftsmanship!

@broncoxy 10 ай бұрын

love how this effectively explains how a clock works, really cool!

@thearmoredpanda6669 8 ай бұрын

well, not modern clocks, modern clocks use quartz, this is showing how clocks worked before the pocket watch was invented

@Schnickenpick Ай бұрын

I love it how the subtitles explain everything for people like me

@Apllek826 7 ай бұрын

Not even in my dreams did i think this was even possible to build, you're unbelieveble, i can't believe you had enough patience to make this monstrosity.

@LEGOCOOKING 9 ай бұрын

Everything you make is just amazing❤

@Titanium2w 9 ай бұрын

agree

@victorsamsung2921 9 ай бұрын

Now we gotta see if this thing still works after 1 Billion years haha.

@anderstermansen130 7 ай бұрын

This lego clock is not my creation but thank you!

@aliciachapman2956 6 ай бұрын

@@anderstermansen130?

@Soldier_from_tf2_omg 6 ай бұрын

@@anderstermansen130bro thinks the world revolves around him/her💀

@nefiaplays... 11 ай бұрын

It'd be sick to have this play live 24/7.

@zan7838 11 ай бұрын

the clock in my bedroom is sicker

@nefiaplays... 11 ай бұрын

@@zan7838 You should stream it 24/7.

@deldarel Ай бұрын

I've never seen a harmonic-ish gear in Lego before! I love that design in the year counter. It's so smart.

@Minino_Aleh 7 ай бұрын

Cara, isso tinha que estar em um Museu, simplesmente perfeito!

@dingdongmotherlover 10 ай бұрын

I'd never have thought that Lego could make me feel stupid af. My brain can't comprehend your Danish plastic brick wizardry. I love your videos! 10/10

@SaltyAsTheSea 9 ай бұрын

That's the only way to describe what I'm seeing 😂 this is just....incredible

@MrCmon113 9 ай бұрын

It's a pendulum clock like old people have.

@rhyswoodman6781 11 ай бұрын

How has lego not approached you and instantly made you head designer? I'm blown away by your ability. Yet again!

@426F6F 7 ай бұрын

That's probably the coolest thing I've ever seen built with lego 😲 and this was so satisfying to watch!! Thank you!

@ekaeo 7 ай бұрын

This is the most impressive thing I've seen in so long

@JJ_Binks 11 ай бұрын

11:28 The madlad actually sat there and recorded it running for almost 1070 years, just for us. Respect.

@DrummondsPoint 11 ай бұрын

Of all the astonishing creations you've made so far, this is the most captivating. I was blown away by the 24 hour clock movement - and then there was everything that came after it. Wow.

@darksionXII 5 ай бұрын

I have never been more acutely aware of my own momentary and ephemeral existence compared to that of the Universe at large, and all because of a clock made from lego pieces. Thank you

@BrendanBlake-ky4zz 7 ай бұрын

Can you pretty please create a parts list for each phase of the build? I would soooo love to make this!!!!

@holyLgame0143 9 ай бұрын

Bro recorded this video for a billion years for us watching this. Props to the cameraman and this guy, deserves a lot.

@delorean_time 8 ай бұрын

I seem to know how. He probably has a "DMC-12" and traveled through time to confirm this video.

@Lucas-Stl 8 ай бұрын

I just wish it came with build instructions.

@leonardmilcin7798 5 ай бұрын

I mean, seriously, just imagine how much SSD the guy needed to store 1 billion years of full HD footage. Mind blowing.

@Dainurian 11 ай бұрын

Every time I watch one of these videos I have the biggest dumb grin on my face. I just graduated with a degree in biomedical engineering, and while this stuff is definitely in the mechanical engineering field, the universal process of iteration and improvement on display in your videos is always inspirational. Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I feel like Lego could make a really successful line of sets based on displaying practical concepts in interesting ways similar to this. As someone who spent countless hours with their Lego as a kid but felt like I eventually "grew out of it," I'd absolutely go out of my way to buy and build something like this as an adult. I've even sent this video to a couple of my younger cousins who are into Lego and they were amazed as well, so I don't even think its appeal would be purely limited to the adult Lego community - it's inspirational to people of any age who love to build functional things. Incredible work, both in the build itself and the video production to show us parts of the process.

@D-Bri 11 ай бұрын

Never think that Lego is JUST for kids...my God, this person teaches you all about mechanical physics, maths and just about everything in one video..just with bits of plastic!!

@CamTheWarlock 10 ай бұрын

Maybe not a billion year clock, but giving a normal clock set like this would be cool.

@jaredmccain5721 Ай бұрын

I’m at the solar panel part where you line it up with the months. My mind has been blown! You are such a creative genius!

@bruhtholemew 7 ай бұрын

This needs to be in a display case in the lobby of Lego's HQ.

@Hoo_Dini 11 ай бұрын

I've seen my fair share of bizarre lego these past months, but this is taking it to the next LEVEL! I applaud you for your talentend mind. And the bricks that were chosen to make the masterpiece.

@edomite2277 11 ай бұрын

Man this felt good to watch! It reminded me of when I was younger. Me and my dad would build a massive gear train with my entire collection of lego, then calculate how long it would take for the last gear to turn. We got all the way up to 4 times the length of the universe!

@BroEdymaniax 6 ай бұрын

I had to lego of my preconceived notions of time and space to understand this beautiful machine.

@user-le1tw3se3r Ай бұрын

Good Job! There are some upgrades I would like to make to it though. #1 energy production, Instead of using solar energy, I would use an RTG with Pure Uranium 285 as my core. then I would reduce the voltage produced to Lego compatible levels using resistors before soldering traditional wiring and Lego wiring together, This would supply electricity to the battery all day and all night, instead of only supplying energy during the day. #2 maintenance, In order to make maintenance less of an issue, I would swap out all of the regular axles, gears, and everything else for stainless steel ones. this would reduce the need of maintenance drastically. #3 Energy efficiency, Due to the low energy efficiency of this clock, I would add a Lego motor to the escape mechanism and then hook it up to the battery, but always keep it off. this would make the efficiency insanely better. #4 Noise, The noise produced by the rewinding motor is insanely loud. This could cause distraction, and mess up your sleep schedule. to fix this, I would put the motor in a soundproof chamber so that no noise can get out. I would put a hole in the soundproof chamber so that a custom axle can come out and hook up the rewinding mechanism to the motor.

@comicsansgreenkirby 9 ай бұрын

If that's not how you cause an existential crisis using legos, I don't know what is. Nicely done >v

@ottersbuildlego8005 4 ай бұрын

@Dudleymiddleton 11 ай бұрын

I bet the clock makers of yesteryear would have loved a lego technics set! Fascinating stuff thank you for creating and taking apart and creating again!

@sebastiananderson8679 7 ай бұрын

My new favorite channel! This is how you should teach mechanical/electrical engineering!

@spunkythecat 2 ай бұрын

Put it in a big time capsule (with a opening for the solar panel to get sunlight) and leave it for the next generations

@spezistyle 8 ай бұрын

This is the kind of content the internet was made for.

@gmail4344 11 ай бұрын

Wow such dedication. Imagine waiting all those galactic years to make this video. Jokes aside, this is really a one of a kind channel. Congratulations for all of the work and imagination you pour in here.

@halifur 11 ай бұрын

*you poor, not your pour. 🤓

@gmail4344 11 ай бұрын

@@halifur my bad for "your"(typed fast), "pour" is correct tho

@konstantinospalapanidis6414 7 ай бұрын

This could very well fit in a documentary such as cosmos. I almost feel I can hear Carl Sagan's voice in the end of the video. Kudos!

@micves4371 8 ай бұрын

props to him for running the clock for ~7.5 billion years just to show how it works

@svenrawandreloaded 10 ай бұрын

Crazy that you recorded this video for a billion years, that's real dedication. 🔥🔥

@Delta_z-cj2uc 8 ай бұрын

Perhaps he already made time machine

@mikorsky_s.92 7 ай бұрын

@@Delta_z-cj2uc*from legos

@GuildOfCalamity 8 ай бұрын

This may be the most educational and interesting Lego video every made.

@Greeneon6073 7 ай бұрын

Props to the camera man for filming for 10 billion years

@RagingCowbell 25 күн бұрын

This became increasingly existential. Brilliant.

@invincible3246 23 күн бұрын

This lego clock will be passed on through generations and maintained by the next generation until the end of time. In the distant future, your family will look back at the clock and be amazed by how far they have come.

@numnuts-nx6nu Ай бұрын

this should be put in the greenwich royal observatory with all the other clocks, it’s just incredible and also displays very well how a clock actually works.