Cool Project, I really love the antique vibe of this, the color of the prints match super well! I just wished you could have made the fork work, that would have really made it complete for me :)

I have no idea how I got here, but that's a really cool table! Great job!

Scaling up something like that is no easy feat. A lot of people wouldn't have been able to do it, or would have given up. Very good job, and an AWESOME final product!

Thanks for all the suggestions on getting the fork/flywheel to work! I'm going to make another video trying them out! Please leave a comment if you have any more ideas!

I was impressed enough by the 3D print, the build, the modifications, the motor... and then I saw the whiteboard maths! ha! Incredible stuff Lucas. It will be great to see you do more :) - Rob

that was great work, than I thought about the guy that made this 3D print and even how much work that even is.

"Tore BEE Yawn". You're welcome. And thank you for this random coolness!

The dead-on smooth fit of the Arduino housing into the center hub was just as satisfying as the clock itself.

So, basically you 3D printed a bunch of gears for a movement that is electronically powered. It takes away all the magic behind the mechanical engineering of a Tourbillon. Even though in a horizontal position the Tourbillon will have no gravity compensation, the fact of just driving the power with an electronic device takes away all the merit of a mechanical clock. Mr. Breguet would be crying in his grave. Pretty cool-looking table tho.

You are inspiring. Great work! Btw, I am a color nerd and am sure that if you put golden background circles under the copper Roman numerals, your clock will look even better! It will unify the clock visually by relating the outside ring more with the center. 🔥 You are a great talent!!

Awesome! Sure it would be nice to get the turbillon working, but the amount of work you put in to scale and print it, and ultimately get it keeping time, is crazy! Bravo!

FYI, if no one has mentioned it yet, the Arduino will do microsecond delay.

This is dope as hell. I love it!

Whoah, as someone who loves to look at clock mechanisms, that’s one badass idea for a table! Great job!

something about this tourbillion in pieces at 2:50 just really makes me feel happy. I don't know why i love feats of engineering so much, but i just do. Also, that moment when you realize that someone in the 1500's designed the first tourbillion cores with literally none of the technology today's age has. Man must have been a true genius and this must have seemed like witchcraft to the untrained eye.

Just a comment with everyone blaming you for the fork not working : The way you set up the stepper is not compatible with the principle of the clock escapement mechanism, but I think you found the easiest way to get a proper clock working and doing it the proper way will be very hard if you actually want to keep time. The escapement has a natural resonant frequency which is what the clock is built around. That resonant frequency is defined by parameters like the flywheel weight, the stifness of the spring and probably the amount of friction too. You won't be able to make the clock turn with the escapement working if the speed of the clock (set by your stepper) doesn't match the resonant frequency of the escapement which is one of the two reasons I see for it not working here. Normally the clock is meant to get its power through the unwinding of the larger spring which puts pressure on the gears, pressure is transfered through the gear to the escapement, and the escapement uses that pressure to maintain its oscillation at its natural resonant frequency thus keeping the timing of the clock. The escapement locks up the clock most of the time and can only be driven in a very small window when the gear escapes, so with your stepper you'll never be able to sync up the step with the moment when the escapement is ok to turn (said differently: you'd need to perfectly match the phases), that's the second reason I see for it not working. To get the clock working with the escapement you should do what you mentionned initially : mounting the stepper to simply keep the tension on the big winding spring. But having an accurate clock with the escapement working will probably be quite difficult because the timing is set by the resonant frequency of the escapement. So you'll have probably have to experiment a lot with the parameters and/or the gear ratios to find the perfect combination. If you manage to do it and get close enough, you should be able to fine tune the speed of the clock with the tension of the big spring (more tension can reduce the speed by a few percent).

Awesome job. I love to see cool projects like this. Keep inspiring us!

Mind blown...... definitely worth a subscription. Well done. Looking forward to future content. Thank you for sharing such a high quality video.

This started off so well, but you've ended up losing the whole point of using the Tourbillon mechanism. I think your problem is really down to the use of a stepper motor, it doesn't make sense in this mechanism. The original setup uses a spring to provide a constant torque and an escapement mechanism to keep the time. You've replaced the spring with a motor set to a constant speed which is incorrect - What you actually want is a DC motor driven with a constant force. Without a spring between the DC motor and the escapement mechanism the motor will end up starting and stopping but that's fine as long as you drive it with a current limited driver, setting the current limit such that the motor won't burn out or heat up excessively. The original escapement mechanism should then work as intended and that part is responsible for the timing.

Awesome project, hope your brother liked it!

Your production quality is amazing, im shocked you have so few subscribers. Keep up the good work!

Love the background tick tock and bell sounds also

Awesome work, and I cant wait to see the fork update, subscribed!

Amazing project and didn't expect it to be so precise. I mean: most of my mechanical watches would only need a week or two to drift away 3 minutes from proper time keeping. Keep up the good work!

This is beautiful, thank you for sharing.

Amazing stuff my dude!! looking forward to the follow up! These kind of projects are the things i'm always too lazy to start on haha

Beautiful!!! So Fascinating!!!

Really enjoying your videos my guy🤙

This is your best build yet!

That thing is absolutely epic!

WOOOOW!! INCREIBLE!!

Cool Project!

Good job!

Interesting. Well done, and it looks nice. Cheers!

Should put fork back in, really needed for full effect. Gear the stepper motor so you can spin the motor faster and get the torque needed to turn tourbillion. Just a thought. Great job by the way. Looks fantastic.

its crazy that people who cant even pronounce tourbillion can just 3d print one. Great work

Christ! I know how long it takes to scale things up and make adjustments in Fusion 360 . This is a huge time vampire! Good for you being persistent! I would have tapped out early on.

i never knew you were this talented,i thought only CC was smart.great job lucas

That sir is Awesome!! Watched the whole video! Subscribed!! 💖

I actually watch the channel that you got that design from, and the first mistake you made was scaling the entire model up. That then caused enough variation in the flywheel attached to the escapement mechanism to then make the mechanism to tick at a slower rate of speed due to friction, increased weight, etc… Though I think that attaching the weights to the ends to increase the momentum was smart, the issue you ran into happened to be caused by the fact that the flywheel must first work up the speed and momentum for that method to be affective, and since you mistakenly broke the spring (which likely wouldn’t have provided enough energy anyways) that caused a fatal error in the entire mechanism due to the tourbillion mechanism.(which is pronounced tore-bee-on, by the way.) So the moral of the story is to talk all major design changes over with the creator of the mechanism to ensure that what you are changing happens to be inconsequential to the overall functionality of the model, and this miscalculation on your part is very easy to dismiss because the initial thought when it comes to mechanical models in the general public is that scaling the entire model up equally (so long as everything remains in the same proportions) will not affect the design. This is not the case here, as you can see, because the timing and function are based in the centrifugal force in the flywheel, which is altered by the mass. I apologize for the horrible time of morning I decided to comment in in my time zone by the way, and I hope you had the patience to read all the way to the bottom of this comment here, which I also apologize for, and I hope you have an outstanding day!

Looks insane. Definitely not a fan of the triple metallic color scheme lol but super super impressive none the less.

Great respect is due you for a phenomenal feat! I wish I had enough gumption!

This channel is going to blow up!

I love the math you did and the app you coded. This is amazing, man! Have a sub from me.

Hey I just had another feasible idea how you can have a perfectly running clock while keeping all the mechanism alive and the clock authentic. You would just need two things: Hook the clock up to a rotary encoder so the arduino can see how fast the clock is turning... The arduino then compares that to its perfect clock (quartz oscillator) and measures the error. Then the arduino needs to be able to change the inertia of the flywheel - which is what gives the clock its frequency. This sounds really hard but isnt - just hook up a tiny servo to a mechanism on the flywheel, that will move some mass slightly outwards or inwards - slowing its frequency down or speeding it up. The programming to do this is also not that hard, there is libraries for servos etc. - that way the arduino would constantly tune the flywheel to have the perfect speed and catch up or slow down to meet with the correct time again. You just need a rotary encoder - or potentiometer on the flywheel for example - and a way for the arduino to control the flywheel frequency - youve already come so far, maybe you can do this, idk.

And this is youtube on its best. Amazing. Thank you for sharing.

The song you chose both gave me ptsd from school and a head ache from it repeating

Still looking for a purely mechanical clock that we can keep time with for 24 hours

So cool

Super well done. Wow

Great mathematics Sheldon

Using delayMicroseconds(66241) you won't need the 1000th step extra delay. However, cool project!

This is really cool. I really liked how you modified Dan's design to do this, cause that guy can make some really cool stuff.

Looks nice but after I've seen how it was handled it made me very sad. I'd like to print out the bigger version of this clock too (I have printed the 1:1 version so far) so I was wondering how did you figure out the finetuning of the turbillon (dealing with the inertia and spring parameters). I'd say the dead winding mechanism is fine at least you don't have to bother with revinding. But.... damn, dead fly wheel? The heart of the clock not beating at all? As I said, it's nice but very sad.

amazing !

Dunno how I got recommended this but loved the video subbed!

Thank you for the video and teaching me the math.

Great job! I want to motoize my clock now!

Cool project, just letting you know that all Arduino microcontrollers use a ceramic oscillator/resonator which has a 0.5% tolerance for its 16mhz frequency - the 16mhz quartz is only giving its signal to the smaller microcontroller handling the USB connection - I found out the hard way when I was making a tracking system for my telescope... - So if you havent already make sure the oscillator signal used by the main MC is actually a quartz one... - there are cheap RTC (Real time clock) Modules you can hook up to the arduino that have Quartz oscillators with an at least 3ppm accuracy). 0.5% tolerance can lead to a 7 minute error per day...

Its a bit late but it would be cool to add a small main spring to the motor, That way you could use the motor like an automatic winder and have the clock be driven normally. You could also add a sensor to see how much tension is in the spring and adjust the motor speed so it wont run too fast or slow. (Or do like automatic watches do and have the spring slip if it gets too tight and run the motor every now and then.)

Damn dude you killed this

Amazing. Your channel will grow more subs

May or may not have inspired my GCSE piece O_O Amazing video!

nice 997 wallpaper 😀👍

yeah a stepper motor is not compatible with a tourbillon it will just stall. you will need to have a normal dc motor acting on the middle gear with a constant torque, essentially pretending to be a spring. Then to make the Tourbillon tick at the correct time adjust the weights on the flywheel, just like the weights on the pendulum of a clock. Also, Tourbillon is more correctly pronounced "tour-bee-on". Hope this helps

You are a lunatic. This is great!

Wow, the creator of the model should pay you 25 bucks. You did a fantastic job making a real clock.

Insanely cool. Ive tried printing a small, simplifed version before but it didn't work all that well 😅. Might have been worth adding bushings for something that'll be running 24/7

If you want to be somewhat accurate with the arduino, you shouldn't be using delays, and instead switch over to using the millis() function. The issue with delay is that the other functions in the arduino code also take time, and this time gets added on top of the time you add using delay functions, causing the clock to run too slow. Using millis() this can be prevented. After that you're left with the accuracy of the crystal on the arduino PCB deciding how accurate the clock will be over time.

Great Job man. Wish i could get your files. My wife loves big clocks and ive been wanting to do something like this for her.

The entire purpose of the mechanism, not just the tourbillon, is the translate the constant output of the torsion spring into a periodic output. Driving it with a stepper motor defeats the purpose, what you've made is a standard wall clock with a bunch of superficial gearing, but I'm sure you realized that as soon as you removed the key component of the escapement mechanism. I was expecting you to use a stepper to periodically rewind it, not power the whole thing.

It's sad you removed the fork, that's like the coolest part; makes the clock actually tic-toc! Couldn't a simple gearbox to give the stepper a mechanical advantage solve the problem? There's no way it was anywhere near its maximum rpm.

To keep the time you could more accurately just add a small magnet to the hour ring and a reed switch/hall effect sensor. If the arduino detects the sensor is triggered early it can stop sending steps until the time catches up with the clock and if it doesnt detect it by the top of the hour it can keep sending steps until the clock catches up. At least that way you don't need to worry about the accuracy of the arduino internal clock over time and it can easily be paired with an RTC module capable of adjusting for daylight savings etc

You can set up the winding automatically with the Arduino you can get it to wind itself everyday for however long it takes it to wind down

Tor-Bee-Yon.

REALLY COOL PROJECT! I'd love to have one. You should go into business just building these, but maybe with a wooden base (painted to look like metal) to save on weight and cost.

Holy Moly!

I really want to do this as a wall clock, and I’d consider a real metal hair spring on the balance wheel, and replacing the spring drive with a constant torque motor instead. We’ll see if I ever get around to it though. 😅

I feel like you just needed some lubricant like a real watch in order to get the fork to work. without the fork, its kinda not really a mechanical clock. good prints though

Nice video. Could you tell us what color filament you used for the stepper motor/arduino casing?

Holy shit. This must have taken like 30+ hours to do. Insane build for your brother

Very creative! I just wonder how much that will cost? I love these things

how about adding wifi module to your adunio which allows it to check the time and correct it automatically everyday

awesome build! I only recommend getting a realtime clock chip. they are cheap and can handle seconds per year.arduino bare is terrible at long timekeeping.

The heck is this travesty!? That's not a Tourbillon clock! It's a quartz clock! Ahhhhh! (Sorry, as someone who did years of apprenticeship at a clock repair shop, this almost physically hurt.)

Love it man ! Keep it up !

3 min per year is assuming that arduino's frequency is 100% right,it will be more like +-100ppm so more or less 1 hour a year,that sounds more likely

Beautiful project! By the way, its pronounced Tour-Bee-On

Intriguing video! Here's a question though: how much power does the system draw?

you know what would be cool, if the clock was also connected to a turntable on the table so that things on the table would turn over the course of the day

Probably should note that an arduino has a ceramic resonator on it, which is pretty horrible at keeping time over long periods. I’ve read of as much drift as 27ms of drift every minute. That means the clock would be several hours off by the time 6 months rolls around, meaning you’ll have to correct the time much more frequently than twice a year...

The look is... 👌🏻 Do you sell the modified version?

The stepper motor ruins the beauty of a mechanical clock imo. I'd recommend looking into making it weight powered.

you could use the 3d prints to sand cast the parts from alloy or other metals make it look steam punky

This is a great idea and really well executed! Great job!

Great job!! Subbed. Are you going to share all your files once done?

Did you ever get the fork/flywheel working again? If the system has too much resistance you might want to consider getting one o' them fancy geared motors what has a crapton of torque at the cost of speed.

yo printing on a mirror is so smart

So, you took a clock, broke the winding mechanism, then you intentionally broke the escapement mechanism to put a electrical motor into it that will show the time. You could just print the rings with the hands and the few gears powering them and you'll have the same thing you just build.

Would you be willing to sell the plans for this larger. Tourbillion??