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\"Mark<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mark Wilson Explores Making Electronic Clocks With Custom Laser Cut Enclosures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever wished you could save time in a bottle<\/a>? Or do you feel like you have too much time on your hands<\/a>? Time is funny, in a peculiar, fluid way. It flies by as kids grow up but stands still in office staff meetings. Vacations seem too short, workdays too long. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However time ticks by, thankfully there are horologists like Mark Wilson that are serious about telling time. A software engineer by day, Mark often finds himself making clocks in his time off, \u201cplaying around with software (Arduino<\/a>, Inkscape<\/a>) and experimenting with methods of time display and aesthetics of project enclosures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Mark\u2019s electronics project boxes<\/a> just happen to enclose clocks, the same principles apply for laser cutting<\/a> any kind of enclosure for electronics. When form meets function and there\u2019s some artistry sprinkled in, the magic happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building Unique Word Clocks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

While some people spend their free time hiking, biking or baking, Mark likes to dedicate his hours to actually chronicling time through making clocks<\/a>. Time well spent, we\u2019d say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Mark isn\u2019t making just any ol\u2019 clock. He\u2019s\ntaking an unconventional design route, skipping the numerals and using the\nalphabet to tell time in this unique word clock. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all starts with building a digital file for\nthe enclosure so the parts can be laser cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mark<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mark chose to use bamboo and acrylic because\nthey\u2019re non-conductive materials that are safe for electronics enclosures, look\namazing and are reasonably priced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what the box parts look like when laser cut in bamboo<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mark<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

When designing the face plate, Mark had\nto determine how to make good-looking letter-shaped windows in something\npractical and attractive\u2014and have the LEDs shine through them without too much\nspill-over to adjacent letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI considered using a stencil font to cut through an opaque material,\u201d he says. \u201cI wondered about etching normal letters onto a transparent material, somehow carefully peeling off the etched-through protective backing leaving letter-shaped islands, spraying the exposed material with an opaque paint, then peeling off the remaining backing. Nothing seemed very appealing or practical. Then I noticed that a mirror acrylic<\/a> was available. This was the answer I was looking for! It is opaque, but the laser can ablate the mirror coating off the back, leaving a translucent window. No need for a stencil font.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mark<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

To construct the box, Mark says the whole thing\nsandwiches together with bolts running from the front and the back, with\nstandoffs between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mark<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

To get the word configurations just right, Mark\nspent a lot of time playing around with the arrangement of the letters on an 8\u201d\nx 8\u201d grid. \u201cIt was an interesting and enjoyable challenge, a little like a reverse\ncrossword puzzle,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result was two designs. Both tell the time\nto the nearest five minutes with no AM\/PM indicator. The first face shows the\ntime as \u201cminutes to hour\u201d or \u201cminutes of hour.\u201d For example, 9:45 will read\nFIFTEEN TO TEN and 10:15 will read FIFTEEN OF TEN. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second face simply shows the time as \u201chour\nminutes,\u201d where 10:15 reads TEN FIFTEEN. \u201cRather than show the top of the hour\nas a bare TEN, there are options to show it as NONE OF TEN and TEN EVEN,\nrespectively,\u201d Mark explains. \u201cAlso TEN FIVE looks odd, so I threw in an \u2018O\u2019\nfor TEN O FIVE.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latter was a last minute<\/em> thing, he notes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mark<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Because the words are sometimes adjacent, Marks\nsays the design works best with colored LEDs to distinguish them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am happy with the two faces because they are\ncomplete (all the hours, all the five-minute intervals), they fill the grid\n(there\u2019s one unused location in both grids, occupied by an \u2018M\u2019) and they\u2019re\nquirky (TWEN  TY etc.),\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since he couldn’t decide which face plate he\nliked better, he toyed with the idea of making two clocks. \u201cIn the end, I\ndecided to make the face interchangeable,\u201d he explains. \u201cThe face plates snap onto\nthe front of the enclosure and are held in place by magnets. A chorded\nbutton-press toggles the display mode.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mark<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

You may have noticed that the clock enclosure\nhas dovetail joints. Keep in mind that dovetail joints can\u2019t be achieved\nstraight off the laser because the laser make straight perpendicular cuts and\ndovetail joints are angled. Thus, this design required some hand-work to get\nthe desired finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mark<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mark designed the laser cut tail and notched <\/em>pin, then he used a chisel\/blade to slice a triangular piece off the pin along the grain in order to create the proper dovetail shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mark<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Since Mark is only building his clocks in low\nquantities, spending the extra time to hand-finish dovetail joints is worth the\neffort. If making a larger quantity to sell, however, this kind of hand finishing\ncould be too time consuming (and thus eat away all the profits) or it could\nmake the price more than the market will bear (if the extra time is built into the\noverall costs). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An alternative? Traditional tab joints like the ones shown below. They may not have the aesthetic appeal of dovetail joints, but they are just as functional and much less expensive (in terms of time = money), which is an important consideration if you\u2019re making a product to sell<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mark<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Creating Curved Electronics Cases<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One of Mark\u2019s latest projects is a clock that\ntells the time in Roman numerals. While the electronic display itself was a\nchallenge (we\u2019ll get to that in a minute), the enclosure design was of significant\nimportance to the project. \u201cI wanted to break with the common square look of\nlaser-cut enclosures and create a curved one by layering,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than using solid flat pieces to create each side, he designed a set of seven layered pieces that fit together kind of like a puzzle box. It\u2019s a smart design, especially because each of the pieces is properly nested<\/a> to take full advantage of shared cut lines and utilize the complete material sheet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mark<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the course of packing parts into the template,\nI shared some common cuts to save space and cost,\u201d he says. \u201cI found some parts\nwere marred at T-intersections where the vertical cut would encroach slightly\ninto the adjacent part. I solved this by not quite completing some cuts, leaving\na tiny gap to break off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using 6mm black acrylic<\/a>, Mark was able to not only maximize the interior space in the enclosure but also match the front face of the LED module. Here\u2019s what the individual pieces look like once laser cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mark<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Keep in mind that once assembled, there is an\nobvious part line with this construction configuration. This is neither good\nnor bad, just something to be aware of when prioritizing cost\/material\/finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than the enclosure design, the primary\nchallenge with the project was how to show the time, which Mark decided to base\naround a four-digit 16-segment display. \u201cI gave myself three of the four digits\nfor the hour,\u201d he says, \u201cwith numerals such as VIII shown by squeezing two I’s\ninto a single 16-segment character.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mark<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mark admits the minutes were a bit trickier. \u201cI\ntoyed with a number of schemes,\u201d he says, \u201cbut in the end settled on a half-height\nRoman numeral indication of the \u2018tens\u2019 of minutes with the additional trick of\nplacing minutes in the lower part of the character during the \u2018bottom\u2019 of the\nten-minute period and in the upper part of the character during the \u2018top\u2019 of\nthe ten minutes. Thus the time is shown to the nearest five minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making Time For What You Love<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Since time waits for no one<\/a>, it\u2019s important to make time to do what you love. Why does Mark use laser cutting as his creative outlet? \u201cI just love the precision of laser cut design,\u201d he says. \u201cIt would be impossible for me to create the quality of the final product myself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether you\u2019re making analog or digital clocks,\nor if you found inspiration in the post for how to incorporate a unique\nenclosure into your next engineering build, spend your time wisely\u2014but also\nhave some laughs. Sure, we take making serious but it should also be seriously\nfun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just think of Flavor Flav and how he began\nwearing a clock as a necklace. It all started as a joke, but it eventually\nbecame an important part of his brand image, differentiated him from his\nmusical competition and served a more serious purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe reason why I wear this clock is because it represents time being the most important element in our life,” he said in this interview<\/a>. “Time can’t afford to be wasted, but not only that, God only gave us one life. Each minute we live, we got to live each second to our best value. Time brought us up in here, and time can also take us out.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clock is ticking. What are you going to\nmake today?
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\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To keep up with Mark\u2019s projects, check him out on Flickr<\/a>. Get the complete details on the word clock build <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more behind the scenes in the world of clock making, don\u2019t miss these spotlights on the Lixie clock<\/a>, bike chain clock<\/a>, Nixie Tube clock<\/a> and Magiclock<\/a>. Then checkout this clock making tutorial<\/a> to get started. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for more inspiration on electronics enclosures, check out these 50 laser cut engineering projects to build a business on<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Wilson Explores Making Electronic Clocks With Custom Laser Cut Enclosures<\/p>\n

Have you ever wished you could save time in a bottle? Or do you feel like you have too much time on your hands? Time is funny, in a peculiar, fluid way. It flies by as kids grow up but stands still in office staff meetings. Vacations seem too short, workdays too long. <\/p>\n

However time ticks by, thankfully there are horologists like Mark Wilson that are serious about telling time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,5796],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maker-success-stories","category-design-ideas"],"yoast_head":"\nTelling Time, Unconventionally<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mark Wilson explores making electronic clocks with custom laser cut enclosures that have special features such as rounded corners and layers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/maker-success-stories\/digital-clocks-electronics-enclosures-mark-wilson\/\" \/>\n<meta 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