Re: [neonixie-l] Jaquet Droz automata...

2014-04-22 Thread Nick
On Tuesday, 22 April 2014 22:15:16 UTC+1, Tidak Ada wrote: > > Really amazing! However, the watch films are 3D animations. > I prefer the real films as [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1gqYwy9fOs ] > from the same Jaquet Droz. The writing an drawing puppets are a real > masterpiece of watchmak

RE: [neonixie-l] Jaquet Droz automata...

2014-04-22 Thread chuck richards
this automaton and got it working properly again. Have a look, it's quite interesting. Chuck > > > Original Message >From: n...@desmith.net >To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com >Subject: RE: [neonixie-l] Jaquet Droz automata... >Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:13:45 -0700 (PDT

RE: [neonixie-l] Jaquet Droz automata...

2014-04-22 Thread Tidak Ada
[mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nick Sent: dinsdag 22 april 2014 22:14 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: [neonixie-l] Jaquet Droz automata... I've always been a fan of automata - Jaquet Droz produced three machines in the 1700's than amazed and astounded - The W

Re: [neonixie-l] Jaquet Droz automata...

2014-04-22 Thread David Forbes
Nick, That's funny that you should bring that up. I'm currently working on a side project: an Etch-a-Sketch wristwatch, using the old keychain model of the toy. I plan to use a couple tiny gearmotors to run the X and Y knobs in coordinated motion to write out the numbers, with a similar font

[neonixie-l] Jaquet Droz automata...

2014-04-22 Thread Nick
I've always been a fan of automata - Jaquet Droz produced three machines in the 1700's than amazed and astounded - The Writer, The Draughtsman and The Musician - The Writer was particularly fascinating as it could be set to write any sentence in a cursive script - a wondrous thing... The compan