Locally, I am regularly enthralled by the Glen Echo Wurlizer 165 Band Organ (a different unit but a good video showing how it is driven by multiple parallel paper tapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMj6duvFJ4o )
But the digit writing of this clock is captivating, and brings to mind some electronic character generators of the past century. Here's some details about how Lincoln Labs used Fourier series to make arbitrary waveforms for generating display characters on a X-Y CRT: http://www.nixiebunny.com/crtgen/crtgen.html Tim N3QE On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 2:55 AM, Daniel Watson <watsondani...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I saw this article about a hand-made clock, and thought some of you might > enjoy it. Called the Plock (plot clock), it is a 407-piece wooden clock > that writes the time. You really just have to see it in action to > appreciate it. > > > http://www.ablogtowatch.com/suzuki-kango-plock-wooden-automaton-time-writing-clock/ > > The accuracy might not be up to time-nuts standards yet, but hopefully we > can excuse that given the remarkable, artistic execution. :) > > > Best regards, > > Dan W. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
