Outstanding project, write up, and presentation. Truly amazing Dick. Thanks also for educating us on metric time. I had never even heard of it before.
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Outstanding project, write up, and presentation. Truly amazing Dick. Thanks also for educating us on metric time. I had never even heard of it before.
Very interesting. Thanks for the explanation.
It still seems very strange to design a stepper motor without a final integer gear ratio.
"Also, the stepper motors have 32 steps per revolution with an internal gear train often stated as a 1:64 ratio, but actually the ratio is slightly less at 1:63.68395."
Seems a bit strange. Are...
That is very cool. Nice solution. I imagined it would have had to be much more complicated. How well will it keep time?
Great idea. With all those lake cottages back east, there could be a large market for those. (Hard market to get to I suppose.)
We do not know anything about Harry Potter stuff!
In Dick's mpc the circle is centered. Remove the centering before you change the board size. After the board size is changed, select all and do the group centering.
You can resize the vectors that Dick and I made. Select all and drag a yellow corner handle. It works the same as a pattern would.
My method is a little work but it precisely centers each number...
Is this one a fake metric clock as well? (I was also sucked in by the amazon clock. Had to delete my post!))
http://www.cafepress.ca/+metric_clock_with_dashes,30924592
Here is how I would do it. In the mpc, with the snap grid on, I move the whole group so that the spot for each number is at the center of the board. Select the next number click both the center hor....
Strange 10 hour clock with 100 minutes to the hour. Is that going to be 10 hours a day or 20?
Edit: Ok, a metric clock. Love Google.