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[dakegra]

today's wonderful things:

some stuff is *really* small

a flock of birds, flocking

cycle chain clock
yikes. That clock is pretty expensive. Seriously, how hard would it be to knock one up? Bike chain, some means of turning a cog (old clock?), some metal numbers, etc.

Hmmm. *strokes chin, thoughtfully*

some days I love the interwebs.

Comments

[elaby.livejournal.com]

DUDE. Those things are so COOL. The cell one! *stares for minutes on end, zooming in and out* And those birds. I've seen that on a MUCH smaller scale, outside my window at work.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I saw an awesome cloud formation this morning on the way to work - like a giant plume of white smoke going up into the cloudbase.

Of course, I didn't have my camera with me. Boo.

I can watch flocking birds for *hours*

[boliviafang.livejournal.com]

That cell-size chart is about the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.

[rpdom.livejournal.com]

Making something similar to the clock shouldn't, as you say, be too hard.

I'd start with a small clock module (I've already got one spare), which cost about £3.30 from Maplin, or just buy a cheap wall clock and take the module out. I'm not convinced it'll have the power to move a heavy chain though, unless the chain is well balanced.

Hmm...

(I bought the clock module years ago. Our office didn't have a clock, so I got a cardboard box, drew a clock face on it, poked a hole in it for the module, made some hands out of card and stuck them on. It worked perfectly. It took several days for our boss to figure out it was a working clock - he thought it was a dummy and that we kept moving the hands when he wasn't looking! Even when we told him it was real he didn't believe us at first.)

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

ha! brilliant. Cardboard clock = win.

[paula-abroad.livejournal.com]

very cool links. thanks for that!

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Howard took me to see some starlings doing that. It was awesome.

Nice clock!