escap(ement)ism

[gfish]

Today was the Computer Science Graduate Student Association Annual General Meeting.

It got kind of boring after awhile.

So I made a Graham (aka deadbeat) escapement out of cardboard using my Leatherman.



It actually kind of worked, for the parts of the arc I didn't smoosh the teeth in too close together. With proper tools (compass, straightedge, protractor and xacto blade) I think I could actually get one working.

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[tnarg42.livejournal.com]

That looks suspiciously like something neuro42 and I made in high school, though that one was made out of plastic. Later I think we cut a rather vicious looking gear out of aluminum instead, but when the escapement became disengaged and the weight fell... Yeah, it was kinda scary...