Frnak McKenney on Sat, 23 Aug
2014 12:11:29 -0500 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
Hi, Pyotr.

On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:55:52 -0700, pyotr filipivich wrote:
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."

[...]

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

I typed "wooden clock" into HackADay's search box and turned up these:

http://hackaday.com/2013/03/19/designing-and-building-a-wooden-mechanical-clock/
http://hackaday.com/2013/07/08/automata-and-wooden-gears/
http://hackaday.com/2011/07/31/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-make-lumber-keep-time/

Those should be enough to get you started, but they're also likely to
make your imagination run off into yet-unexplored places and extend your
project. Be careful. grin!

I can do that aaaaaaalll by myself.

I once had to come up with a "project" for machine shop class.
"Parallel holder". Yep, by the time I was done, we had a car driving
off the bridge to start the thing, it then pivots up like the monolith
in 2001, Godzilla stomps on Bambi causing the front of the monolith to
fold down and land on Godzilla's toe, and a bunch of deer with RPGs
light him up. Then the proper set of parallels are loaded into the
rocket pods on an attack helicopter, which then delivers them to the
machine.
Decide too much robotics and electronics for a machining project.
But it would have been cool. and a good entry in a Rube Goldberg
contest.
--
pyotr filipivich
"With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."