This is a clock which displays the time using two ball. I got inspired for this clock from a famous company's demo clock. The balls use a diffrential mechanism to roll and stop at every few degrees. The hours ball rolls and stops every 450 degress and the minutes balls rolls and stops every 90 degrees. 

The clock consists of two icosahedron  balls . The hours ball has 12 sides with 12 hours and the minutes ball has 12 sides with 5 minute interval minutes. The balls use a differential gear mechanism which make them roll and tumble at the same time. The face of the balls stop at every interval of rotation which is chosen to match the angles of the icosahedron. The hour ball stops every one and a quarter rotation which is 450 degrees and the minute ball stops every 90 degrees 

which is a quarter rotation. The overall dimensions of the clock are 383 x 78 x163 mm ( 15x3x6.4 inches )

The base has 3 parts . The left and right house the motors and the drive shaft and the center contains the electronics. The motor is a 15mm dia geared stepper motor with a gear ratio of 1:99 . The motor drives a shaft at 90 degrees which in turn drives the balls. The motors find their starting position using a magnet and a hall sensor. 

The balls are about 78mm in outer diameter. The central rod drives the central bevel gear which in turn rotates the 90 degree bevel gear on the bottom bevel gear at a 1:1 ratio. The rotation of the 90 bevel rotates the sloped bevel on the main bevel gear at a ratio which makes the ball tumble. 

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