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Printed Clock Doesn't Quite Work But Is Amazing Anyway

John Biggs

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Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

Monday, April 25th, 2011
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This wild printable clock doesn’t have a working escapement yet (that’s in the works) but it does prove that you can build complex mechanical objects using MakerBots.

The best part is that the Maker who designed it depended on others in Makerbot’s Thingiverse to build and test it. It’s true, open-source R&D and I’d say 3D printing is, in a way, the next step in the evolution of open source technology.

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