Comments on: Help me build a clock

By: DETN8R

DETN8R — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:41:12 +0000

Incorporate that Arduino of yours. That should make things interesting.

By: toast

toast — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:23:11 +0000

So if you’re simulating a mechanical clock, would that be a physics engine simulating a perfect balance spring/drive spring/escapement assembly, or simply an animation tuned to time? Simulations of historic clocks (Harrison, Breguet etc.) would definitely have an audience, though I’ve no idea how they may be integrated to the desktop or how much processing power they’d absorb just simulating a mainspring…

By: dresden

dresden — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:22:45 +0000

er 04

By: dresden

dresden — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:22:15 +0000

12:59:08?

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:21:15 +0000

Shannon,
I do not know if it will help, but I do have a book on how to build a tower clock. It gives the information about the gears and whatnot. Either that, or I could check around my apartment and see if I still have the Asimov paper clock book.
If I can be of help, let me know: I’ll do my best to help :)
Ed

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:47:04 +0000

Ed, I like your idea of doing a physical simulation of a clock… Instead of actually running clock software, I could create a physical simulation of gears and so on that just happens to be a clock!

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:31:43 +0000

Skoddie,
It speeds up for me too, and I’m running WinXP

By: Chris B.

Chris B. — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:29:07 +0000

Not sure how this would works a computer program, but for an IRL clock, the chronophage (time eater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock) has to be one of the coolest clocks i’ve ever seen.

By: nikk

nikk — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:25:45 +0000

Missjanet, I can sympathize. I’m stuck on a mb pro

By: MissJanet

MissJanet — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:00:01 +0000

As a Mac user, I feel criminally left out. :)

By: Skoddie

Skoddie — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:46:06 +0000

I don’t know quite how it behaves in windows, but in WINE (on ubuntu) moving your mouse over the window speeds up the scroll bars. Very interesting piece of software :)

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:48:38 +0000

Saw a similar one on Neatorama a month or so ago…

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/23/scroll-bar-clock/

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:09:26 +0000

Shannon,
Here is a thought: make a virtual clock – you’d see all the gears moving on the screen, and how they affect the change of the hands of time.

Catch ya later,
Ed

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:50:42 +0000

Shannon,

You know that when you mention clocks or timepieces, I’ll be all ears :P

I still have the old blueprints from a book for a tower clock :) They may be the old version of prints, but they are a start :)

I cannot wait to hear more about this :)

Catch ya later

By: scienkoptic

scienkoptic — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:08:22 +0000

that’s pretty neat. I was writing a program last night and this reminds me how ‘dumb’ I really am.

I wish I could put ‘writing’ in italics…..