On 09/09/2015 04:17 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 9 September 2015 at 02:36, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've wanted to make a clock that worked by having one ball >> lifted up a track per minute, and the ball rolling down the >> track flips levers to advance the clock and carry to the >> next digit. Kind of merging horology with kinetic sculpture. > You can buy those, but it would be interesting to make an attractive one. > > I have a rough design already made up, uses wheels that are advanced when the balls hit levers. Different length pins on the wheels allow the levers to drop the ball to two different tracks to perform the carry.
I also had an idea to do BCD counters with mechanical flip-flops and then the FFs would raise pins that would select one of ten flags with the digits written on them. The balls would have to be pretty heavy to activate all that mass. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
