[sudo-discuss] Building a Pendulum Clock

[Marc Juul]

There is an issue with the laser cutter but rumor has it that it's
just a loose USB connector so feel free to re-solder it or replace it
and you should be good to go.

On 6/17/19, Adam Munich <me at adammunich.com> wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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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