The World's First Digital Sundial

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  • čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
  • In this video I show you how the first digital sundial works. I talk about sundials and how they can change in accuracy and become off by hours over millions of years due to the slowing rotation of the earth.
    Digital Sundial creator: www.mojoptix.com/2015/10/25/m...
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  • @TheActionLab
    @TheActionLab  Před 3 lety +232

    The 6 hour time delta after 2700 years I mentioned in the video wasn't clear. This is the cumulative time due to all fluctuations over that time period. This time is the delta between TT (terrestial time) and UT ("variable" universal time). So if you set an atomic clock 2700 years ago, when the sun is directly overhead today it would read about 7pm. This has to do with why we have to add leap seconds every few years even though the length of day has not increased by that much. The effect is cumulative. So since 1972 we have added a delta of 31 seconds difference between TAI and UTC.

    • @perihelion7798
      @perihelion7798 Před 3 lety +9

      Thanks for clarifying this point. I was stunned when you said that, but understood the concepts.

    • @brandonn6099
      @brandonn6099 Před 3 lety +7

      Due to the fact we're constantly adjusting time to match solar time, sundials will, on average over millions of years, be more accurate than any atomic clock. They are what we calibrate time to. (Albeit *those* "sundials" are telescopes... )

    • @flaps805
      @flaps805 Před 3 lety +3

      @@brandonn6099 no they wont

    • @saqibmudabbar
      @saqibmudabbar Před 3 lety +3

      Hi can you put this"digital" sundial in the next action box. Thanks.

    • @JesusisJesus
      @JesusisJesus Před 3 lety +1

      The Action Lab That was quite interesting dude.

  • @Mojoptix
    @Mojoptix Před 3 lety +428

    Wouhou !
    Glad you like it ! A lot of caffeine went into designing this sundial...

    • @stuball08
      @stuball08 Před 3 lety +19

      I’ve printed this as well and had just used it for my daughters school project on time. Thanks for your amazing work!

    • @TheActionLab
      @TheActionLab  Před 3 lety +41

      It is awesome!

    • @humanbeing1429
      @humanbeing1429 Před 3 lety +5

      @Mojoptix amazing work. Great results. Love it. I gotta make one of these for myself. Thanks.

    • @Frankie13074
      @Frankie13074 Před 3 lety +4

      this is big brain

    • @janus2059
      @janus2059 Před 3 lety +3

      It's so amazing actually....that this fixed, no moving part object can do this.

  • @rouge4963
    @rouge4963 Před 3 lety +157

    That’s cool to know about the first sundial.

  • @Gigantopathetic
    @Gigantopathetic Před 3 lety +43

    learning about clocks has finally paid off.

  • @vegasdevl84
    @vegasdevl84 Před 3 lety +43

    I do as many of the experiments that you do here as I can with my daughters. They love geeking out. Thanks man!

    • @jorgemarcelo4708
      @jorgemarcelo4708 Před 3 lety +12

      That is really cool, congratulations on being an awesome father. I'm sure your daughters will remember those moments forever

    • @vasudevraghav2109
      @vasudevraghav2109 Před 3 lety +8

      Congratulations on being a cool father. Try to keep the bulb glowing.

    • @TechSupportDave
      @TechSupportDave Před 3 lety +2

      That's actually amazing. Showing kids science from a young age increases the chances of them being more curious and passionate later in life.
      But include some of the simpler math too! It's important for there to be at least 1% theory.

    • @Cacowninja
      @Cacowninja Před 3 lety +1

      Can you post it to CZcams?

    • @Life_42
      @Life_42 Před 2 lety

      Great to hear you are being the best dad, literally!

  • @marioeagle93
    @marioeagle93 Před 3 lety +20

    I guess that with a larger sundial, we could also achieve precision in minutes, maybe seconds. How big would that be?

  • @debashissarkar5638
    @debashissarkar5638 Před 3 lety +8

    The inventor sure deserves huge respect for this amazing invention 😍 😊

  • @markinipannini
    @markinipannini Před 3 lety +177

    "This clock uses army time"
    Or as the rest of the world calls it - *time*

    • @TheFakePlayerGame
      @TheFakePlayerGame Před 3 lety +6

      Mark Ahman [The World]!1!1!11!!!1!

    • @lieblingsfarbe4453
      @lieblingsfarbe4453 Před 3 lety +16

      Thought the same, Army time wtf is he talking about ?

    • @huawafabe
      @huawafabe Před 3 lety +31

      It's actually not army time. Army time would be 1640 without the colon. So yeah, it's just standard 24h time

    • @huawafabe
      @huawafabe Před 3 lety +6

      @@Nerdycopia yes and without the colon

    • @invisiblefan313
      @invisiblefan313 Před 3 lety +13

      In the US, 12 hour times are used almost universally, except in the military. The military is commonly refrenced as using a 24 hour time system in pop culture, which is the only time people from the US see 24 hour time, so whenever they see it, they're like "oh hey, that's the time system that the military uses" and not "oh hey, that's time".

  • @IowaHawkeyes59
    @IowaHawkeyes59 Před 3 lety +7

    This video blew my mind!! The digital sundial was cool, but the information about time was incredible! I love your videos :) I really appreciate all your hard work.

  • @MikhailChernoskutov
    @MikhailChernoskutov Před 3 lety +18

    The real problem, as I see it, is not about switching pixels, it is about switching pixels instantaneously, such that you don't see garbage half of the time

  • @abracalebdabra
    @abracalebdabra Před 3 lety +1

    You always sound excited to explain stuff to us, thanks for the great video mate!

  • @folarz
    @folarz Před 3 lety +26

    That's awesome, I diffenetly watched a whole video right after it came out

    • @rohitjg
      @rohitjg Před 3 lety +1

      Understood within reading at the first time

    • @praneilmukkamala4538
      @praneilmukkamala4538 Před 3 lety

      What are you trying to say

    • @folarz
      @folarz Před 3 lety

      idk

    • @TechSupportDave
      @TechSupportDave Před 3 lety

      are you having a stroke? do I need to call the ambulance?

    • @folarz
      @folarz Před 3 lety +2

      no need kind sir
      you see, the point of this comment is that i ironically said i watched a whole video (that lasts over 6 minutes) when it got published 12 seconds before i wrote that comment
      noone would ever understand it because the time has already passed
      have a nice day :)

  • @Funkylogic
    @Funkylogic Před 3 lety

    That's awesome. The world only gets better when you get an opera house like that to show that analogue and digital mesh so beautifully. Well done sir!

  • @TheRealKitWalker
    @TheRealKitWalker Před 3 lety +1

    Ingenious design by that person. Bravo. And to you to dude, another fun experiment. 👍👏👏

  • @ecookapp
    @ecookapp Před 3 lety +2

    So cool!
    Keep up the good work!

  • @khalidelrafie6513
    @khalidelrafie6513 Před 3 lety

    Amazing complicated simple design

  • @picklejimmy8286
    @picklejimmy8286 Před 3 lety +1

    That amazing! Love the videos!!

  • @alexkowalski8943
    @alexkowalski8943 Před 2 lety +1

    Wonderful idea. Respect!

  • @jesseshakarji9241
    @jesseshakarji9241 Před 3 lety +1

    I remember seeing this cad model 3+ years ago. I'm surprised there aren't more videos of this.

  • @Jordan-fy4id
    @Jordan-fy4id Před 3 lety +1

    I remember this used to be a hydrailic press channel. Today this channel is even better than is was before

  • @raymitchell9736
    @raymitchell9736 Před 3 lety +2

    Very neat and clever design, I've seen these before and know they've been out for a while, but I really like your explanation and demonstration of how it works... A fun fact: the reason why hands on an analog clock are traditionally painted black are because the hands represent the black shadow cast by the gnomon (yeah... I didn't know what the pointy thing on a sundial was called either... Thank you Wikipedia!!!)

  • @manojperumarath8217
    @manojperumarath8217 Před 3 lety +38

    Year 2020: we have flying cars
    Reality: look, we made digital sundial

    • @ehorses2729
      @ehorses2729 Před 3 lety +2

      Manoj Perumarath we have flying cars, they are called helicopters, it’s just most people can’t afford their own.

    • @SianaGearz
      @SianaGearz Před 3 lety

      This project was published 5 years ago.

  • @soumalyadatta
    @soumalyadatta Před 3 lety

    This was brilliant!

  • @cerwe8861
    @cerwe8861 Před 3 lety +1

    Wow, even the idea is really cool! But how it's done is alo really clever. Awesome!

  • @jimmyvines9720
    @jimmyvines9720 Před 3 lety

    I absolutely love your channel keep it up

  • @plssub
    @plssub Před 3 lety +109

    Humans: **create sundial**
    Clouds: Imma end this whole *sundial's* career
    Humans: **create clock**
    *O U T S T A N D I N G M O V E*

    • @Chara_Dreemurr1
      @Chara_Dreemurr1 Před 3 lety

      I am ur first sub

    • @IvanOoze1990
      @IvanOoze1990 Před 3 lety +1

      Your life has no value.

    • @Chara_Dreemurr1
      @Chara_Dreemurr1 Před 3 lety +4

      @@IvanOoze1990 everything is not real it's all just a simulation. Nothing we do matters. We can't get out nothing is real.
      A rihno villager in animal crossing new horizons: 2020

    • @GRBtutorials
      @GRBtutorials Před 3 lety

      Well, technically a sundial is a clock too.

  • @RonaldDas42
    @RonaldDas42 Před 3 lety

    Great video, love the 3D printed Sun Dial

  • @ercoledistefano8306
    @ercoledistefano8306 Před 3 lety

    Seriously impressive engineering.

  • @EvilOttoJrProductions
    @EvilOttoJrProductions Před 3 lety +1

    It's good you mentioned that it has to be "made out of the right material" because I was worried about that black filament in the sun, and sure enough it started melting at 4:00

  • @manaqbhanjanbarpanda272

    Kudos to the inventor👍👏👏

  • @zmrvll4420
    @zmrvll4420 Před 2 lety

    This is Helpful

  • @josem138
    @josem138 Před 3 lety +6

    By the way, is anyone else also stunned by the fact the chair's shadow at 3:39 up to 4:05 stays perfectly tangential to the tape? Mindblow

  • @HaroldTheWizardCat
    @HaroldTheWizardCat Před 3 lety

    This is so dope!!

  • @kodystclair9774
    @kodystclair9774 Před 3 lety

    I love how it started to melt in the time lapse

  • @CyanicCore
    @CyanicCore Před 3 lety

    Smart /and/ useful!

  • @user-wr2uy9pj4m
    @user-wr2uy9pj4m Před 3 lety +1

    This is really cool

  • @scikick
    @scikick Před 3 lety

    Would love to watch a follow-up video on the actual design.
    About how you started, your thought processes, and the compromises you made, everything geeky.

  • @AV8R_Surge
    @AV8R_Surge Před 3 lety

    Great stuff

  • @55Ramius
    @55Ramius Před 3 lety

    That would be a great thing to put in a experiment box ! : )

  • @shubhendumishra1421
    @shubhendumishra1421 Před 3 lety

    Great info 👍😊

  • @HaiTran-ry8pz
    @HaiTran-ry8pz Před 3 lety

    Awsome, i rly love this

  • @mcoletta6736
    @mcoletta6736 Před 3 lety

    This is so cool. You are my hero AL

  • @malinournmalinourn5529
    @malinournmalinourn5529 Před 3 lety +1

    Very cool.

  • @veixtube
    @veixtube Před 3 lety +2

    I printed the model by mojoptix around 3-4 years ago. Took me like 2 days total. I had it outside for almost a year and it warped pretty bad in the end. It was made out of PLA and also black. It got wet in the rain also. Anyone trying this i suggest something that can tolerate sunlight, winds etc.

  • @ankitminz5872
    @ankitminz5872 Před 3 lety

    Love it.

  • @johnzach2057
    @johnzach2057 Před 3 lety

    This is one of the best Action Lab episodes. Can we buy this digital sundial from somewhere?

  • @josem138
    @josem138 Před 3 lety +33

    4:04 is it "melting"? why is it bending down?

    • @craigschooled
      @craigschooled Před 3 lety +4

      Yeah black wax is horrible sundial material.

    • @lieblingsfarbe4453
      @lieblingsfarbe4453 Před 3 lety +6

      @@craigschooled black wax ? pretty sure its Pla

    • @SeriousApache
      @SeriousApache Před 3 lety +2

      @@lieblingsfarbe4453 Any black material is bad.

    • @nagualdesign
      @nagualdesign Před 3 lety +1

      @@lieblingsfarbe4453 Jesus wept. Of course you're pretty sure it's PLA. We all know it was 3D printed. Jesse knows it was 3D printed. Even if you didn't think it funny, surely with your smarts you must have had an inkling that it was a joke? 😕

    • @lieblingsfarbe4453
      @lieblingsfarbe4453 Před 3 lety +1

      @@nagualdesign not really, didn't think he was joking, still not sure doesn't make any sense even as a joke.But I don't know or care tbh

  • @MD_ENTERTAINMENT
    @MD_ENTERTAINMENT Před 3 lety

    Brilliant

  • @cassnick2709
    @cassnick2709 Před 3 lety

    Wow this was super cool actually. Very interesting!

  • @spacegooser9147
    @spacegooser9147 Před 3 lety

    That’s awesome!

  • @alexanderunger534
    @alexanderunger534 Před 3 lety

    Awesome !

  • @nealsonf
    @nealsonf Před 3 lety

    Very cool!!!

  • @DIProgan
    @DIProgan Před 3 lety

    I would love to see you try adapting and applying more tech to that sundial so that it always show the correct time, say for at least a hundred years or so.

  • @TheFarmacySeedsNetwork
    @TheFarmacySeedsNetwork Před 3 lety +1

    That's pretty cool man! Nice job! When you get a chance, I need a mini sun I can hold in my hand capable of the same lumens output here and requires no power input. :)

  • @firelimbo9441
    @firelimbo9441 Před 3 lety

    Informative

  • @thetruthexperiment
    @thetruthexperiment Před 3 lety

    It’s self explanatory but amazing. What a cool idea. I want a huge one that is also a giant tower. Call it a clock tower.

  • @lzylifeguidesubscribe2124

    This is SO COOL!!!

  • @jasonduffy
    @jasonduffy Před 2 lety

    Printed mine today as a cool clock for camping.....🌲🌴

  • @hatetoggaf7983
    @hatetoggaf7983 Před 3 lety

    This channel is great but mad underrated

  • @matthewsaulsbury3011
    @matthewsaulsbury3011 Před 3 lety

    Wow! That's amazing and cool! 😁👍🏼

  • @pradyunsharma2903
    @pradyunsharma2903 Před 3 lety

    That's one of the awesome things I have ever seen

  • @Phiwipuss
    @Phiwipuss Před 3 lety +1

    Interesting...

  • @hoggif
    @hoggif Před 3 lety

    What a lovely idea! But a pain to get summer time changes working automatically :)

  • @OverUnity7734
    @OverUnity7734 Před 3 lety +8

    2:40
    Army time.
    I wonder what the Navy uses for time ?

  • @Povilaz
    @Povilaz Před 2 lety

    Interesting.

  •  Před 3 lety

    I remember reading about digital sundial quite a long time ago in (translation of) an issue of Scientific American magazine, if I remember it correctly somewhere in the '90. Later when trying to learn more about it, I have read that there are at least two ways to make digital sundial (which I think both got patented).

  • @grimmer2005
    @grimmer2005 Před 3 lety

    Thats INSANELY cool! :-O

  • @miniatureface
    @miniatureface Před 3 lety

    Wow this is crazy cool

  • @MhdAliAlashkar
    @MhdAliAlashkar Před 7 měsíci

    مبدع

  • @scroopynoopers2892
    @scroopynoopers2892 Před 3 lety

    wooow, lookah dat gadegckt! iz tolly amazin, you guys.

  • @Nxrvy
    @Nxrvy Před 3 lety

    That is sssooooo coool and I’m thinking who thinked about making that

  • @GuruPrasad-np1qn
    @GuruPrasad-np1qn Před 3 lety

    THATS AWESOME BRO.......

  • @gvantsasakaruli9900
    @gvantsasakaruli9900 Před 3 lety

    I love this thing!!!!

  • @adveshdarvekar7733
    @adveshdarvekar7733 Před 3 lety +1

    Wow so cool

  • @RandoniumTJ
    @RandoniumTJ Před 3 lety

    Absolute genius 👍 👍 👍....

  • @BryanLeeWilliams
    @BryanLeeWilliams Před 3 lety

    Pretty cool

  • @mrpancakes
    @mrpancakes Před 3 lety

    Please mention pixel density in your videos along with the resolution. I like to know the pixel densities in phones.

  • @fortyinch
    @fortyinch Před 3 lety

    Now that.... Was cool... 👍

  • @rajanlamichhane3095
    @rajanlamichhane3095 Před 3 lety +1

    This is one of the coolest clock I've ever watched😍😍 ( I say it clock)

  • @redhawkrobin
    @redhawkrobin Před 3 lety

    I don't know why or how I ended up here. But that is actually pretty cool!

  • @christianrindlisbacher7185

    Love ❤️ the show ordered a vacuum chamber

  • @Name_1387
    @Name_1387 Před 3 lety

    Oh that is so cool

  • @MammaOVlogs
    @MammaOVlogs Před 3 lety +1

    wow that is way cool,

  • @JoshGDS
    @JoshGDS Před 3 lety

    That's a really good survival tool

  • @keddrikyvan
    @keddrikyvan Před 3 lety +46

    Solar eclipse: Gonna end this sundial whole career
    Sundial: I already know, its just temporary

  • @ideaquest
    @ideaquest Před 3 lety

    Great idea. The challenge is to made one that produces the same result with a simplified design.

  • @naveenverma70
    @naveenverma70 Před 3 lety

    Hi i like ur videos and the explanation you provide are clear and easy to understand. Thank you for your contribution in making physics fun. I would request you to make a video on spaghetti puzzle by Richard Feynman and how it was solved. Thanks in advance.

  • @nameless6161
    @nameless6161 Před 3 lety

    How do people come up with these things, frickin awesome

  • @mrudanideosthali
    @mrudanideosthali Před 3 lety

    So cool ❗

  • @MisterTrayser
    @MisterTrayser Před 3 lety

    This is the only change that still surprises me I guess!

  • @fuseteam
    @fuseteam Před 3 lety +1

    now _this_ is true innovation

    • @fuseteam
      @fuseteam Před 3 lety

      @Joby Fluorine nah that was just stupid considering they don't offer at least multiple usb c ports
      if you're gonna remove a legacy port at least offer feature parity lol
      besides this doesn't require any type of energy to run compared to smartphone not even lasting a day under heavy usage compared to months before the smart "innovation"

  • @handanyldzhan9232
    @handanyldzhan9232 Před 9 měsíci

    Awesome invention. Finally a portable and accurate, precise sundial that's relatively easy to mass produce. In the future, maybe some other variants might be made:
    - Including one with a solar compass - you couldn't tell the time without the piece taking the latitude into account in its own way anyway, just make it more visible.
    - A UV-sensitive system to not get tricked by artificial light (provided it's daytime and the sky is clear). UV-A can still pass through glass, so if it can pass through to a black surface with UV paint, it could work.

  • @saurabhsoni4092
    @saurabhsoni4092 Před 3 lety

    U r absolutely genius....

  • @jarocats
    @jarocats Před 2 lety

    Very, very cool. How large can this be? Or is it limited by the size of the 3D printer that produces it?

  • @ZombeeStar
    @ZombeeStar Před 3 lety

    5:40 always wondered how to tell how long 1 second was

  • @MiguelSantrer
    @MiguelSantrer Před 3 lety

    Manual do Mundo, a brazilian channel abut science made this a long time ago too, this video is great.

  • @intothecalm420
    @intothecalm420 Před 3 lety

    That is Awesome!
    Only $23 on Etsy too.

  • @DaxSage
    @DaxSage Před 3 lety

    I was scrolling and I saw the title while the preview played and I was like "why would anyone.." and I saw the time in the shadow change and instantly went to "ooooh that's cool"

  • @Gribbo9999
    @Gribbo9999 Před 3 lety

    It's cool device especially for telling the time backwards here in the southern hemisphere though I guess with a 3D print it would be easy enough to reverse the print file.

  • @zachkiss8870
    @zachkiss8870 Před 3 lety

    How big can you get with this and how far can the dial from the display? I’m imagining it has something to do focal length or something. If the holes were a lot bigger and the dial was a lot higher up could I turn my entire backyard into a digital clock?