[sudo-discuss] Building a Pendulum Clock

[Adam Munich]

Laser cutter should be operable --ask rayc, he was the last to use it.

For your own sanity I would recommend making the movement gears themselves
out of PMMA, wood has a tendency to get stuck.

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On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 12:00 PM Ryan <yandoryn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey y'all! Long time, but I'm thinking my health is finally getting to the
> point where I might be able to grace the halls of sudo once more.
>
> Next term, I'll be taking diffeq, and part of the class is coming up with
> real-world applications of differential equations and then solving them. I
> came to the conclusion pretty quickly that I also wanted to build
> something, and while dreaming of cat toys and thinking about pendulums, I
> realized I was missing the obvious solution: pendulum clocks.
>
> There are quite a few resources out there for building a pendulum clock,
> some of them 3D printable and some of them wooden, but I was leaning more
> towards doing one in wood, although possibly printing the timing wheel,
> then sharpening it down more precisely by hand.
>
> I'm currently looking at basing it off of these plans:
> http://www.woodenclocks.co.uk/Clock%207-PR-3.PDF
>
> So my questions are:
>
> Does anyone have any experience with clock building?
> How is the laser cutter functioning currently?
> Are there any issues a novice clockbuilder should look out for?
> What questions haven't I thought of?
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