Greetings and Salutations

The problem with not having money, is that you see things, and
instead of buying them, you go home and try to figure out how to make
one.

In this case, it was a lamp with a music box. The whole thing
looked like a 'cabin' with a waterwheel, with a lamp socket at the top
of the chimney. "cute". But, and this is the clever thing, there
were two doors - one served as the switch for the lamp, the other for
the music box, which also powered the water wheel. Slick. And cute.

So I went home and researched music boxes a bit. They run from $8
to $500, depending on quality, tunes and the like.

So I started sketching, counterweights, and pendulums and drums
and electro mechanical switches to start and stop an electric motor
for winding things up. Great fun. Realized "okay, this is called a
'clock work' for a reason. Somebody must have plans."

So that is the question - sources for plans for a "clock work" -
one that will run off of either a pendulum, or a wound spring.

And then, the sketchbook took over. (it is haunted I think). And
I wound up with a clock tower - clock at the top, waterwheel at the
base, and windows going up and around the tower - each one with a
miniature light bulb, sequenced to make it appear that someone is
climbing the tower, doing something in the upper room, then going back
down the stairs ... and then "when I look through the window I can see
...." and now I'm trying to figure out what motions are involved in
making an autotom gesture, write, wave out the window, conjure up
magic ...
What started out as something the size of a small footprint
desktop computer is rapidly turning into the size of the desktop
itself. Or maybe taking over the desk! Run! Run! It's alive!

Anyway, if anyone can post some pointers to clockwork plans, I'd
appreciate them.

tschus
pyotr
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pyotr filipivich.
Discussing the decline in the US's tech edge, James Niccol once wrote
"It used to be that the USA was pretty good at producing stuff teenaged
boys could lose a finger or two playing with."