Any home interior will be incredibly transformed by brand new wall clocks. At the same time, it is not at all necessary to travel all over the city in search of a new masterpiece that will become a wonderful new thing.

Wall clocks in the interior will look great if you make them yourself! For example, you can decorate an old clock you have. You can also make new ones using various materials, moreover, they are also easily accessible.

In addition, they will be an excellent gift, especially for relatives and friends, who are not distinguished by punctuality.

How to make a wall clock with your own hands

Taking the most ordinary embroidery hoop, you can get quite interesting wall clocks. You will also need decorative buttons for this. The basis can be chosen from fabric which is perfectly combined with the invoice and color registration of your interior.

You can also use any buttons (preferably a collection) that are completely idle. They can be of different shapes, colors, sizes.

For a brand new watch, you need to prepare: an old watch or find arrows with a mechanism, a hoop, fabric with buttons, braid / ribbon, if you wish - a thin board / cardboard.

Clockwork / old clocks should not be a pity to disassemble in order to remake for a brand new decor. The arrows should be removed along with the nuts that hold them together. It is important to know in this case in what order they are connected. The fabric is attached between the hoops, cut off unnecessary edges, then sew on the buttons. Place the latter in accordance with the numbers on the dial.

Next, the clock mechanism itself is attached. Right in the center of the dial you need to make a small hole, and on the other hand you need to attach the mechanism so that the mount for the hands is right in the center of the dial of your watch. To fix the mechanism, cut a circle from a cardboard sheet, wood. Its diameter should be the same as the hoop. The mechanism is glued to it. You can also simply hang it on a ribbon that is attached to the hoop. We recommend making a loop so that you can hang the accessory on the wall. It remains to screw the arrows and voila! See options for similar items on our photos of wall clocks with your own hands.

Option number 2

Clocks can also be made from old unwanted magazines / newspapers.

To do this, you need to prepare: 24 pages of the same size; pencil, scissors, transparent adhesive tape, long needle, silk thread intended for embroidery / floss, transparent plastic discs (2 pcs.), Cardboard circle with a hole right in the center, clock mechanism with hands.

And so, first you need to take a pencil that turns into a newspaper. The tubes need to be made accordingly, 24 things. Their ends should be fixed with adhesive tape, then they will naturally not unwind. Approximately the third part must be retreated from the end of the tube, then bent here in half.

Comfort and coziness in our home sometimes depends on even the smallest details and elements. Even most interior designers agree that the most important attributes for getting comfort in the house are well-chosen curtains, original lamps, soft and chosen in the right shade, blankets, pillows, bath rugs and clocks.

This article will focus on a master class on how to decorate a clock at home yourself.

There are a large number of photos of watches on the Internet, most of them are made by famous designers, but making original watches at home is also not difficult.

There is, of course, one key and difficult moment - this is the installation of a mechanism on the watch for its operation, but the finished mechanism should be bought in a store and installed according to the instructions. But the appearance of the future watch and its rest design completely depends on personal preferences and tastes.

There are several modern techniques that help to independently make watches in any style.

Decoupage watch style

A similar technique for designing and creating a wall clock involves working with a ready-made store template, where there is already a blank, the base of the hands and the finished mechanism. You can also purchase ready-made patterns on paper, special paints, glue and other decoupage elements.

The workpiece for the clock is made in this way: several times the base is covered with a primer of acrylic paints, and finally polished. The desired shade and texture is given to the base in the next step.

There is one trick - if you want to make an old-style clock with a shade that is scuffed, then the paint must be applied with a sponge.

Decorating a wall clock with your own hands is a process of bringing out the imagination and creativity of a person. You can stick special water stickers on the base. Or draw a preliminary sketch yourself and transfer it to the dial.

After that, the finished mechanism and arrows with numbers are already attached. After a series of actions, the clock created by your own hands will come to life and will give the house a special original look.

Quilling clock

Quilling is an arts and crafts process in which you work with straight strips of multi-colored paper of various widths. Such strips, as a rule, are twisted and glued to the surface, while creating the most varied patterns and pictures.

To create a clock using this technique, it is best to take a tree as the basis of the clock, since quilling elements can be well glued to it.

The color scheme should be in harmony with the interior of the room. After all, a bright clock will look ugly in a room made in a minimalist style. Therefore, the choice of shade is a key point in this matter.

Most often, multi-colored quilling elements are used to create flowers, insects, trees, animals, berries, and so on.

Plaster clock

Ordinary gypsum tiles will serve well as the basis for future watches.

Romantic and reverent natures will surely find a large number of solutions for creating watches from this material.

Among professionals, such a tile is called a medallion. The mechanism of the future clock is attached to its back side. To make the product look more elegant and restrained, its surface should be covered with matte paint in light colors.

And, if you want some highlights, then glossy paint will do.

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This material is most suitable for creating clocks in the bedroom. At the same time, shades are chosen - beige, pale pink, pearl, the color of coffee with milk, purple and so on.

Clock with wooden sticks

In this situation, you should have items such as sticks and quality wood, good glue, scissors, and a ready-made work clock with a flat surface in your arsenal.

Many small sticks of the same size should be cut out of wood, and then connected

If the sticks are applied to the base in two layers, then you can achieve a wonderful “explosion” effect, which looks luxurious and original.

Now you know how to make a clock at home. Handmade clocks are ideal for the kitchen, and for the hall, and for the bedroom.

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In continuation of my acquaintance with the LaunchPad mps430, I propose an article on restoring the working capacity of old pendulum wall clocks.

An old pendulum wall clock with a chime from 1952 fell into the hands. The mechanism had traces of repair and was a disappointing sight. In watches of this class, unlike mechanical watches, the gear axles do not rotate in stones (rubies), but in the holes of brass plates. This, with prolonged operation and the absence of regular lubrication, leads to an increase in the backlash of the gear in the seat. The backlash builds up in proportion to the number of gears, and the watch eventually stops running. I don’t know how it is treated scientifically, but on my watch there were traces of the core in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe seats, thus, apparently, they tried to reduce the diameter of the gouged holes. In general, I did not begin to restore a completely mechanical move.
It was decided to replace the spring stroke with an electromechanical one while maintaining the same functionality, namely, displaying the time and battle, as well as adding new features.
For work, we need: a pair of stepper motors from the printer, an RTC, a controller, keys for controlling the motors, an ionistor for storing parameters and timing in the absence of external power, and little things ...
Mechanically it looks like this:


Initially, the watch had 2 springs, one running, the second for fighting, a pendulum that ensures the accuracy of the movement, and so on. After removing the unnecessary parts of the modernization, there remained a minute and hour gear + a running stepper, as well as several gears, hammers and a stepper that controls the battle. In the picture above, the running motor, below - "combat". A separate dance with a tambourine was obtained by calculating the number of steps of the travel motor to move the hand by 1 minute. Since printer manufacturers do not take into account the gear ratios of the gears of old Soviet watches (I used gears planted on the motor shafts by printer manufacturers), it turned out that it usually takes 14 half steps to move the hand for a minute, and 16 half steps every 25th minute, so that time, the readings did not float away. Combat is easier. It took 3 revolutions of the motor (576 half steps) to hit.
Here's another picture:

As an RTC, I ordered literally Extremely Accurate I²C RTC on ebay, which means “terribly accurate”. Terrible accuracy according to the datasheet is determined by the built-in quartz and a temperature sensor that connects / disconnects correction capacitances to / from quartz. In principle, when checking the accuracy of the course, I was pleased with the result. For a week did not notice the departure of more than a second.
The controller is our favorite msp430g2553, the older one from TI's launchpad set. It carries 2 hardware serial interfaces on board, one of them will communicate with the RTC via I2C, the second will send debugging information to the computer via RS232.
Low-current motors (not that they are not accurate, but that they consume little current), a 7-channel transistor module ULN2003A is quite suitable for control. True, 8 channels are needed, but there were no other modules in the magic chest, so I assembled the 8th channel on a BC547C transistor and a pair of Schottky diodes that protect against reverse induction. For testing, it turned out that 5V is enough to power the motors.

On 34063, a DownStep DC-DC voltage converter is assembled from 5 and above (within reasonable limits) to 3.3V to power the RTC and msp430.

As a control, a mechanical encoder was amputated from the body of an old deceased radio. in the diagram it is shown as 2 buttons in a circle (the encoder itself). Its center button is also involved. To pull up its outputs to power, we will use the internal resistors msp430.

For feedback (response to control), let's add an LED.

Here it is time to describe the conceived feature. The RTC has an onboard memory stored by batteries and accessible like other registers via I2C. The idea is the following. Since we have a stepping motor, it is possible, knowing the reference point, to understand what position the arrows are at the moment and store this position in the RTC memory. When the external power is turned off, the RTC continues to count the time and store data on the last position of the hands. When power returns, we take the old position from memory, the current time, count the difference, and bring the arrows up to the current time. Those. watches with auto-supply are obtained.
The reference point is set by setting the arrows to the 12:00 position and long pressing the central button of the encoder.
Next, the encoder sets the current time and at the beginning of the sixth signal, by briefly pressing the central button, synchronization is performed (the clock links the current position of the hands and the internal time of the RTC).
Here is a video of a half-hour battle and the operation of the encoder:

After this procedure, we have every right to carry out sound accompaniment of the move, namely the battle. Every hour we will beat the corresponding number of times, every half an hour 1 time, but at a faster speed. Actually, 1 blow is actually a blow of one hammer and the subsequent blow of two more. You can hear it on the video.

In order to perform a quality fight, we also need to know the relative position of the main gear that controls the hammers. To do this, when the power is turned on, we carry out “parking”. We turn the battle motor in the opposite direction until it stops. Fortunately, the motor is weak, and when this stop is reached, it just starts to buzz. After that, with the empirically obtained number of steps, we bring the “combat” gear to the desired position.
The fee is made by LUT in part. If it were not for the SOIC RTC case, I would do it at the assembly line as usual. And so, I left a place for crumbling, this is what happened:


back side:

The program is written in C under CCS5
Here are the sources:

The image needs to be opened with winrar.

The style of the clock, except for the amputation of the pendulum, is preserved.

Outcome:
1. Revive an old watch
2. Added new features
3. Pumped over mechanics, electronics and coding.

Sometimes there is a desire to change something in the atmosphere of the apartment, and global repairs require a lot of money and effort. Then original crafts, for example, watches, come to the rescue. Homemade watches are easy to create from improvised materials. The finished item will not only decorate the room, but also become a budget gift that will provide the recipient with a lot of positive emotions.

Creating decorations for the home does not take much time and is a pleasure. A variety of options will help fit the clock into any interior. A master class on how to make a wall clock with your own hands will tell you how an unusual craft is born in just a couple of hours.

Home clock

As a basis, a clockwork from an old device or bought in a specialized store is suitable. Children can be involved in the process of creating a masterpiece.

Consider one of the options for step-by-step instructions for a wall clock. To design the frame, you will need colored pencils or felt-tip pens. Drawing supplies are attached to the round or square base with glue.

Pencils play the role of rays. It is not necessary to strictly follow the combination of colors, the length of the pencils and the distance between them, in any case, the watch will turn out to be bright and cheerful.

You can also make a wall clock for the kitchen with your own hands. Coffee beans, wine corks, and even tiny dollhouse crockery are perfect for this option. And cutlery looks good as hour hands.

Dry lavender flowers are sometimes used to create a Provence-style atmosphere, and shells and small pebbles will be transferred to the Mediterranean coast.

Decorating Techniques

There are a huge number of techniques that show how to make a wall clock correctly. Let's consider the main ones.

Decoupage

To design products using the decoupage technique, you will need to prepare a plywood frame, paper napkins with a pattern and a clockwork.

Making a wall clock consists of the following steps:

• Leveling the surface of the clock base. For this, fine-grained sandpaper is used.
• Coating the mold with acrylic primer in several layers and drying thoroughly.
• In the next step, you need to cut out a pattern from a napkin and compose a composition.
• Next, the frame is covered with a thin layer of glue in the places of the future location of the pattern. A napkin is applied to the glue, the next layer is a cellophane film, which tightly presses the pattern to the surface.
• The decoration is again covered with several layers of glue and dried thoroughly.
• At the last stage, a clock mechanism is attached to the base.

Craquelure

The body of a wall clock with your own hands can also be made using the craquelure technique. The primed form for hours becomes covered with a special varnish. Its surface, when dried, forms cracks.

Some craftsmen create the effect of antiquity by rubbing the paint of the desired color into the cracks.

Other Clock Ideas

Ordinary hoops for embroidery can be given a second life by transforming them into a cheerful and bright clock on the wall. As a base, you can take a dense fabric of a color that will be in harmony with the interior of the room.

Excess parts of the fabric are carefully cut off, and 12 buttons are sewn along the perimeter of the circle in those places where the numbers of the dial are located. It remains to make a hole in the middle of the future clock, attach the clockwork and hang it on the wall.

Another unusual idea for making interior decoration is the transformation of an alarm clock on legs. Scrapbooking products are sold in specialized stores. It can be various textile ribbons, flowers and much more. With the help of decorative elements it is easy to create a unique composition that will decorate any interior.

A wooden board will serve as a stylish base for a wall clock. A wide variety of shapes are cut out of it.

Many shades of wood allow you to choose the best option for any room. On a wooden base, you can burn a pattern, this will make the decoration even more unusual.

The clock face can be embroidered or knitted, painted with acrylics, pasted over with sparkles. The more unusual the idea, the more unique the decorations for the interior will turn out. Other ideas for creating crafts can be seen in the photo of a wall clock with your own hands.

DIY wall clock photo

Today, the market is rich in various wall clocks. It would seem that everyone can find something that suits both the mood and the interior. But everything is not so simple.

In pursuit of quantity and variety, the quality of products often suffers. Therefore, modern watches are short-lived and not at all practical, and often there is no soul in them.

Therefore, we encourage you to dare and create a watch yourself. In this article, you will definitely find answers to questions about creating watches on your own.

The benefits of creativity before buying

First, it is a new experience and new knowledge. You will understand the mechanisms, begin to understand how everything works, which is important.

Also, this is a great chance to realize any of your ideas, make a personalized item, choose the right size and color palette.

In general, create exactly what suits your home and specifically you.

Decoration techniques. What to choose?

In general, it all depends on you, your imagination and your desires. Here are a few basic techniques that you can look at:

• Decoupage - attaching a pattern or ornament to the base, varnishing;
• Quilling is the process of creating a pattern by twisting strips of paper;
• Scrapbooking elements - creating collages using photographs or drawings;
• Working with epoxy resin - pouring a mold with resin with the addition of various decorations (sequins, rhinestones, dried flowers);
• Painting with acrylic paints in various styles;
• The use of strains for beating the ornament;
• Embroidery;
• The use of wooden blanks.

Decide what is closer and more understandable to you. Perhaps you are already familiar with some technique, or maybe you have long wanted to try yourself in a new style - this is a good opportunity.

The basis for the clock - what is it?

Be sure to go through all your bins, chests and pantries. It is quite possible that you will find something that can be used in further decoration. Namely:

• Buttons that have been stale for a long time, ribbons and pieces of fabric (great for decoration)
• Old records of different sizes (why don’t you need a clock base?)
• Clippings from magazines, newspapers, old photographs.
• Dried flowers and leaves.
• Pieces of plywood that remained after the repair, saw cuts of wood, hemp (can also serve as a good base)
• Thick cardboard (pay attention to whether the boxes from under the equipment are lying around - an excellent consumable for the base)
• Shells, pebbles and various small details.

watch movements

The main element of any watch. Nowadays, there are many varieties of mechanisms, they differ in the quality of the materials used and in small subtleties.

But, in general, there are two main types - mechanical and quartz.

Looking at the watch, you will quickly determine which mechanism is inside: if the second hand moves continuously and almost silently, then this is a watch with a mechanical "stuffing", if the second hand twitches sharply and "nervously", then this is a watch with quartz content.

What is their difference and what should be preferred?

Quartz. It is now common, as it is quite cheap and at the same time it is characterized by faulty operation. A battery is used as a power source, which must be changed in time.

Why quartz? Because to create energy, the battery passes a charge through a quartz crystal. The crystal, in turn, begins to vibrate and sets the whole device in motion, and the arrows begin their journey.

Mechanical. It is considered a work of art, a fine work of a master. It is he who you will meet in the most expensive and elite watches.

The essence of the work is that all gears and parts are controlled by a spring, which gradually unwinds.

Such a mechanism is quite capricious, its accuracy can be affected by temperature, the position of the watch itself, and other factors. Therefore, it is considered normal that such watches will lag a little.

If you look into creative stores, you will find there sets with a quartz movement. They come in different quality, and their price depends on this. But, in general, this is a reliable option for creativity.

If you decide to give preference to the mechanical "stuffing", then you have two solutions - to create a mechanical mechanism on your own or contact the master, since, in general, such mechanisms are made to order.

You can find a similar design in stock, but not the fact that it will be the right size.

In the first case, you will need a lot of time, desire and patience to master the skill. And the work of the master can cost you a pretty penny, you must be ready for this.

Repairing the watch yourself is also possible. If you have a quartz movement, it will be enough for you to remove the battery, wipe the contact point first with a damp cotton swab, then wipe it dry with a rag and insert a new battery.

But if you have a mechanical mechanism, then you should not try to solve the problem yourself, it is better to seek help from a specialist.

Features to pay attention to while creating

Before you start, if you are a completely green beginner, look through the photos of head made watches on the Internet. Take a closer look at the details. This can help you decide on the style, and it will certainly inspire you to further creativity.

And also don't forget to make a hole in the base to match the diameter of the thread. And pick up the stem so that it is convenient to screw it with a nut so that everything is fastened tightly and securely.

It would be most correct to first select the clockwork, and then select the base with the required thickness

The hands should be in order: first hour, then minute, last second. Make sure that the hands do not touch each other, otherwise the clock will not work.

The subtleties of wristwatches. How to be with them?

There is no limit to creativity! Even wristwatches you can make original and exclusive. But in creative stores you are unlikely to find the right mechanism. To do this, you will either have to take apart your old watch, or intentionally buy an old one at a flea market.

But to do this job, you need to have special skills and tools. This type of work is already more difficult and serious, as it is considered a craft.

If in doubt, look on the Internet, look through photos of sketches of various watches on your hand, take a closer look. It is quite possible that you decide to master this art.

Rules for using wristwatches

There is a stereotype that watches should only be worn on the left hand, regardless of gender. But actually it is not so important. You will not offend anyone if you are much more comfortable wearing a watch on your right hand.

For men, in general, the choice of hand depends on the functionality, convenience and safety of the watch. For a woman, a combination with other accessories is more important. Therefore, everything depends on you. Creative success!

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